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• Annual Conference - A New Hope: The Next Golden Era of Industrial Relations

  • Start
    03 May 2024
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    9:30 AM
  • End
    05 May 2024
  • Location
    Novotel Hotel, Wollongong

  
  

  Book Now   Please note that this link will take you to the Humantix site where you can complete your registration. Full details of accommodation options and costs will be detailed there.

  NB - There is a change to the format for our program in 2024. Our gala dinner with the fabulous Atlas Band will be held on Friday night. The Year in Review, presented by Dilan Mahendra to be held on Saturday night.

  

  
  

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  Speakers include:

  

  
  

  Anna Booth: Fair Work Ombudsman 
  

  Patron of irsnsw

  
  

  

  
  

  Christa Lenard: Partner: Partner, Kingston Reid, President irsnsw 

  
  

  
  

  Professor Johanna Macneil: Centre for Organisations and Social Change, RMIT University 
  

  Joe Murphy: Director: Cowell Clarke  
  

  Ian Latham: Barrister: Denman Chambers 

  Hon Sophie Cotsis MP: NSW Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Work Health and Safety

  Veronica Black : Lead Professional Officer – WHS, Professional Services, NSW Nurses & Midwives’ Association 

  Michael Kaine : National Secretary, Transport Workers Union 

  Dilan Mahendra :Barrister 

  Adam Dansie: Director Workforce & Legal at Local Government NSW 

  Luis Izzo: Managing Director – Sydney Workplace, Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors 

  Associate Professor Tess Hardy: Co-Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne Law School 

  Thomas Costa: Assistant Secretary, Unions NSW 

  Commissioner Alana Matheson: Fair Work Commission 
  

  The Hon Damien Tudehope: Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations
  

  Katie Sweatman: Partner Kingston Reid

  Dr Eugenie Schofield-Georgeson: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney

  Commissioner Janine Webster: NSW Industrial Relations Commission

  Troy Wright - Assistant General Secretary, Public Service Association of NSW 

  

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• Finnegan Rudd Memorial Luncheon

  • When
    24 May 2024
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Noah's on the Beach, Zaara Street, Newcastle
  • Spaces left
    77

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  IRS Newcastle Branch

  Finnegan Rudd Memorial Luncheon

  Date: Friday 24 May 2024

  Time: 12.00pm - 3.00pm

  Venue: Noah's on the Beach, Newcastle

  INTRODUCING OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER 

  Anna Booth, Fair Work Ombudsman

  

  Under the Fair Work Act 2009, Anna is responsible for promoting harmonious, productive, cooperative and compliant workplace relations.

  Anna 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.

  Anna is an accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System. She holds a Bachelor of Economics (Hons) from the University of Sydney and is the patron of the Industrial Relations Society of NSW.

  
  

  For any enquiries, please email newcastle@irsnsw.org.au

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