The 2011 Fay Gale Lecture will be presented by Associate Professor Denise Doiron on the theme Trends and Recent Developments in Income Inequality in Australia. The lecture will be presented first at Assoc Professor Doiron’s home university, the University of New South Wales, on 20 September 2011, and then at the University of Western Australia on 26 October 2011. The final lecture was at the University of Tasmania in Hobart on 23 November 2011. The lecture was jointly sponsored by the Academy, the Economics Society of Australia (Tasmanian Branch) and the University of Tasmania.