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Overview Julian Disney is a part-time Professor and Director of the Social Justice Project at the University of New South Wales. He has previously been Professor of Public Law at the Australian National University and Director of its Centre for International and Public Law. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is Chair of the National Affordable Housing Summit and National Chair of Anti-Poverty Week. He is also Convenor of the Community Tax Project and of the Neighbours Program, which works to strengthen engagement between community leaders in Australia and neighbouring Asian countries. Prof Disney has previously been Coordinator of the Sydney Welfare Rights Centre where he worked for six years assisting people who were unemployed or experiencing other forms of hardship. He has also been President of the NSW Council of Social Service (NCOSS) and the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS). He has been World President of the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) which represents social welfare organisations from more than 80 countries. Prof Disney has been a full-time NSW Law Reform Commissioner and Chair of the NSW Ministerial Task Force on Affordable Housing. He was a member for seven years of the Australian Government’s Economic Planning Advisory Council (EPAC) and has been chair or member of national advisory committees in fields such as education, employment and training, social security, public administration, literacy, housing, superannuation and immigration. During the last two decades he has been a policy consultant to a number of social welfare and business groups, a regular speaker at national and international conferences, and a frequent media commentator. He has also been the principal author or editor of books and articles relating to aspects of the legal profession, taxation, housing, social welfare, governance, national development and international organisations. In 1994, Julian Disney was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to the development of economic and social welfare policy, and to the law. In 1999, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws (LL.D) by the University of New South Wales. Research Interests Global governance, Regionalism, Public investment and taxation, Access to justice, Social security and unemployment, Urban and regional development, Taxation Current Research Projects Affordable housing (Brotherhood of St Laurence, Don Dunstan Foundation) Comparative taxation (Morawetz Social Justice Fund) Social policy in Australia and Indonesia (Myer Foundation) Poverty: Key problems and options (Scully Foundation, World Vision, Mission Australia, Catholic Social Services Australia) Grants Affordable housing (Brotherhood of St Laurence, Don Dunstan Foundation) Comparative taxation (Morawetz Social Justice Fund) Social policy in Australia and Indonesia (Myer Foundation) Poverty: Key problems and options (Scully Foundation, World Vision, Mission Australia, Catholic Social Services Australia, Anglicare) Journal Affiliations Global Social Policy, Member Editorial Advisory Board |
