2026 AGM & Patron's Lunch

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2026

Members Dining Room Parliament House

Program

11.45am  IRSNSW AGM registration commences

12.00pm  IRSNSW AGM commences

12.30pm  Patron's Lunch commences

3.00pm    Patron's Lunch concludes

AGM

Information for members about the AGM is available on the website at IRSNSW committee reports. We invite members to consider nominating for a committee position using the nomination form in the link by 4pm Wednesday 18 November 2026. Please note, as this is a members only page, members will need to login to access this material.

Attendance at the AGM only has no cost, a cost only applies if you are attending lunch.

Patron's Lunch

The AGM and Patron’s Lunch will feature a sit down discussion with our Patron, Anna Booth (Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman), and Susan Booth, former Fair Work Commissioner, who was appointed by the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations to conduct the Closing Loopholes Review, which was tabled in Parliament in August 2026.

Speakers

Anna Booth, Fair Work Ombudsman, and IRSNSW Patron

Anna Booth was appointed as Fair Work Ombudsman in September 2023 for a 5-year term.

She has extensive and diverse experience in industrial relations spanning more than 45 years, working with unions, private, and public sectors. Anna was most recently Director of CoSolve Pty Ltd. She returned to CoSolve in 2020 after serving as a Deputy President of the Fair Work Commission for 8 years. Before her appointment to the Fair Work Commission, Anna combined her CoSolve directorship with non-executive directorships of ME Bank and IFM and was the non-executive chair of Slater & Gordon Ltd.

Anna spent much of her early career in the union movement. She was the National Secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia and a Vice President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.

Anna has also been Vice President Corporate Affairs at Sydney Harbour Casino and a lecturer at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and the Australian Institute of Management. She has served on the boards of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and NRMA Ltd.

She is an accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System, and holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the University of Sydney.

Anna is the current Patron of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW.

Susan Booth, former Commissioner of the Fair Work Commission

Susan Booth is a former Commissioner of the Fair Work Commission. She was appointed to Fair Work Australia, as it was then called, in 2011. Before that, she was a Senior Member of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (2009 to 2011) and Queensland’s Anti‑Discrimination Commissioner (2002 to 2009). As Anti‑Discrimination Commissioner she also chaired the Australian Council of Human Rights Agencies.

She was admitted as a solicitor in 1990 and practised in industrial, discrimination and administrative law, with a strong focus on alternative dispute resolution.

The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations appointed Ms Booth to conduct the joint statutory review of the Closing Loopholes Acts. Her final report was tabled in Parliament in August 2026.

Entry to Parliament House

Entry to Parliament House is via the security gatehouse on Macquarie Street. Upon entry to security gatehouse, in addition to usual security screening processes, all visitors will need to check in via a QR Code via Service NSW app.

Cost (excl GST)

Members $105  
Non-Members $155  
AGM Only (no lunch) $0

Bookings

• If you are not able to pay online at the time of booking and need to pay by EFT, your reservation cannot be confirmed until a copy of your payment receipt has been sent to membership@irsnsw.org.au.

• Places are limited so please book early.  Bookings will close 19 November.

• Members who book for the AGM only should note that lunch is not included in this option.