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With two weeks to go until the 2023 NSW State election, voters across the state are preparing to head to the polls to elect the 58th Parliament of New South Wales.Ìý

The following University of Sydney experts are available to comment on key election issues, including: climate and conservation, cost of living, education, energy, gambling reform, healthcare and women's health, housing affordability, infrastructure and transport, integrity, politics and parliament and proposed changes to superannuation.Ìý

• Ìýfrom the Business School can comment onÌýorganisational change, management innovation, sustainability, critical understandings of capitalism and political economy. CONTACT:Ìýchristopher.wright@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Life and Environmental SciencesÌýcan comment onÌýurban ecology, biodiversity, insects and conservation.ÌýCONTACT:Ìýdieter.hochuli@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney Law SchoolÌýand theÌýSydney Environment Institute can comment onÌýMurray-Darling Basin governance, water law, energy and climate law.ÌýCONTACT:Ìýtess.gibney@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney School of Veterinary Science can talk aboutÌýkoalas, chlamydiosis (chlamydia) in koalas. CONTACT:Ìýmark.krockenberger@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences can comment onÌýwildlife ecology, koalas, koala habitats, native animal response to climate change and threatened species. CONTACT:Ìýmathew.crowther@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney School of Veterinary Science can comment onÌýwildlife ecology, koala behaviour & response to climate change, fauna management and conservation. CONTACT:Ìývalentina.mella@sydney.edu.au

• Ìýfrom theÌýBusiness SchoolÌýcan comment on buy now pay later, behavioural finance, individual investor decision making and betting markets. CONTACT:Ìýandrew.grant@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýBusiness School can comment on inflation, forecast combination in business, finance and economics. CONTACT:Ìýandrey.vasnev@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Economics can comment onÌýinflation, interest rates, macroeconomics, cost of living, economic policy.ÌýCONTACT:Ìýtess.gibney@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Economics can comment onÌýhousehold energy affordability, energy markets, policy responses of governments to energy issues, privatisation and financialisation of energy sectors, economic regulation. CONTACT:Ìýtess.gibney@sydney.edu.au

• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney School of Education and Social Work can comment onÌýteachers’ salaries, early-career teachers, educational psychology. CONTACT:Ìýtess.gibney@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýBusiness School can comment onÌýteachers’ working conditions and pay, teacher education, small group tutoring, gender pay equity. CONTACT:Ìýsusan.mcgrathchamp@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney School of Education and Social Work can comment onÌýschool funding, teaching performance assessment, teaching effectiveness, teacher education. CONTACT:Ìýwayne.cotton@sydney.edu.au

• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Electrical and Information Engineering can comment onÌýthe energy grid, infrastructure, pricing, policy, consumer energy and power bills and the shift to renewables. CONTACT:Ìýglenn.platt@sydney.edu.au

• Ìýfrom theÌýBusiness School can comment onÌýSydney’s night economy and alcohol-related violence, problem gambling and gambling availability, waste and recycling as a function of consumer behaviour and marketing. CONTACT:Ìýrohan.miller@sydney.edu.auÌý
• ,ÌýDirector of the Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic, can comment onÌýgambling, including gambling problems, cashless gambling, prevention of problems and advertising. CONTACT:Ìýsally.gainsbury@sydney.edu.au

• Ìýfrom theÌýMenzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics can comment on disease prevention prevention and public health. CONTACT:Ìýmatt.johnston@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Rural Health, Dubbo/Orange can comment onÌýrural health and public health. CONTACT:ÌýRebecca.roennfeldt@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney Medical School can comment onÌýinfection and immunity, virology, encephalitis, maternal and child health and neonatal infections. CONTACT:Ìýcheryl.jones@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney University Central Clinical School can comment onÌýcontraception, abortion, menopause, access to sexual and reproductive services. CONTACT:Ìýkirsten.black@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney Medical School can comment onÌýyouth health, reproductive health and women’s health and access to youth health care in rural and regional areas. CONTACT:Ìýmelissa.kang@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSydney School of Education and Social Work can comment onÌýNSW domestic violence policy, domestic and family violence, women’s wellbeing, social policy and social work.ÌýCONTACT:Ìýtess.gibney@sydney.edu.au

• Ìýfrom theÌýHenry Halloran Research Trust in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning can comment onÌýhousing policy, housing affordability, property market analysis and urban economics. CONTACT:Ìýc.murray@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Architecture, Design and Planning can comment onÌýurban and regional planning policy, housing policy, sustainability and planning, renters and renting, housing affordability and short term rental regulation. CONTACT:Ìýnicole.gurran@sydney.edu
• Ìýfrom theÌýSchool of Economics can comment onÌýhousing tax policy, housing affordability, cost of living, macroeconomics, housing markets, inequality, social policy. CONTACT:Ìýstephen.whelan@sydney.edu.auÌý

• Ìýfrom theÌýInstitute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment onÌýtransport economics, transport policy and strategy, transport infrastructure, public transport. CONTACT:Ìýdavid.hensher@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýInstitute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment onÌýtransport infrastructure investment, bus corridors, public transport, transport pricing strategies. CONTACT:Ìýgeoffrey.clifton@sydney.edu.au
• Ìýfrom theÌýInstitute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment onÌýtransition to electric vehicles, electric vehicle infrastructure, behavioural change in transport. CONTACT:Ìýjohn.rose@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýInstitute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business SchoolÌýcan comment on road tolls. CONTACT:Ìýlidunian.partners@gmail.comÌý
• Ìýfrom theÌýInstitute of Transport and Logistics Studies, Business School can comment on theÌýaviation industry, supply chain management, transport economics and commercial drone use. CONTACT:Ìýrico.merkert@sydney.edu.auÌý

• Professor Rodney SmithÌýfrom theÌýSchool of Social and Political Sciences can comment onÌýpork-barrelling, public sector ethics, political ethics and corruption. CONTACT:Ìýrodney.smith@sydney.edu.au

• Dr Stewart JacksonÌýfrom theÌýSchool of Social and Political Sciences can comment onÌýpolitical party systems, the Australian Greens, policy formulation and program delivery, party and parliamentary systems. CONTACT: stewart.jackson@sydney.edu.au

• Professor Susan ThorpÌýfrom theÌýBusiness School can comment onÌýsuperannuation, life cycle finance, individual financial decision making, financial wellbeing and retirement. CONTACT:Ìýsusan.thorp@sydney.edu.auÌý
• Dr Cameron MurrayÌýfrom theÌýHenry Halloran Research Trust in the School of Architecture, Planning and Design can comment onÌýproposed changes to superannuation and retirement policy. CONTACT: c.murray@sydney.edu.au

For any further information, please contact the University of Sydney Media Office:Ìý

• T: (02) 8627 0246
• M:Ìý0402 972 137 (this number cannot receive text messages)
• E:Ìýmedia.office@sydney.edu.au

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