This virtual issue of the Economic Record celebrates the first in-person Australian Conference of Economists in Hobart in 2022 since the COVID pandemic disrupted the usual format of our annual meetings. The virtual issue contains the most influential papers that have appeared in the special issue of the journal associated with the annual conference since the introduction of DOI codes. The papers were selected using the criteria of the ten most downloaded papers of those published in the special issue associated with the conference. Although downloads are an imperfect metric, the virtual special issue captures the longevity of impact of some of the papers presented at Australia’s annual Conference of Economists.