Tristram has worked in the Australian Treasury for close to a decade, alongside two years as Research Fellow and Project Director at the G20 Studies Centre at the Lowy Institute. His work has covered a range of tax, international economic and fiscal policy issues. He has  worked at Crawford School on behalf of the Australian Treasury and been a visiting scholar at both the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University.

Tristram’s research will investigate the impact of Australia’s tax and transfer system over people’s lifetimes. He will use cross government investments in administrative data to focus on the extent of smoothing and rich-poor redistribution.

Supervisor: Professor Robert Breunig
 

Publications

• Sainsbury T (2015) US Global Economic Leadership: Responding to a Rising China, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.
• Wurf H and Sainsbury T (2016) Making the Most of the G20, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney.
• Sainsbury T (2016) 'Do we need more economics in Australian economic diplomacy?' Australian Journal of International Affairs, 70(6): 613-624.
• Sainsbury T (2023) Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation [PhD thesis], The Australian National University, Canberra.