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Kim Hawtrey

Australian economist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ6408710
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Kim Hawtrey is an Australian economist, who has written on economics and on Christianity.

Biography

He earned his doctorate at the University of New South Wales and studied at Moore Theological College. He has been Economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, Chief Economist at Colonial State Bank, and a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and Hope College in the United States.

He is a Fellow of Macquarie University and a Senior Fellow of the FINSIA Financial Services Institute of Australia.

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The public source identifies “Kim Hawtrey” as australian economist. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hawtrey, Australian and economist.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 82-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1957-11-15. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hawtrey, Australian and economist providing the first useful test.
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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6408710. VIAF identifies the subject as 254979908. The Library of Congress control number is n92122427. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from Kim Hawtrey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.