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• IRSNSW 2025 Annual Conference

  • Start
    2 May 2025
  • End
    4 May 2025
  • Location
    Novotel Hotel Wollongong

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  IRSNSW 2025 Annual Conference

  
  

  Disconnect to Reconnect:

  Navigating the Aftermath of Legislative reform.

  
  

  The 2025 Annual Conference provides a chance to disconnect from your day job and reconnect with industry bright sparks. Following extensive legislative reform over recent years, this conference reflects on the changes to Industrial Relations over the century and how today’s laws are shaping workplaces of the future.

  
  

  The 2025 conference has new content and format, with the introduction of a Master Class on Psychosocial Hazards and Keynote Speaker, renowned journalist David Marin-Guzman, from the Australian Financial Review who will speak about his investigation into the CFMEU. We also see the return of the comedy debate, Year in Review and much, much more.

  
  

  Our guest speakers have much to share, and our attendees, much to learn. We are thrilled to present to 2025 Annual Conference and look forward to seeing you at this not-to-be-missed event.

  
  

  Confirmed Speakers include:

  • Justice Ingmar Taylor - President, Industrial Relations Commission
  • Deputy President Alexandra Grayson - Fair Work Commission
  • Commissioner Leigh Johns OAM - Fair Work Commission
  • David Marin-Guzman - Journalist, Australian Financial Review
  • Brent Ferguson - Head of National Workplace Relations Policy, Australian Industry Group
  • Dr Frances Flanagan - Facility of Law, University of Technology Sydney
  • Dr Anat Hassner - Chief People Officer, Uniting NSW and ACT
  • Cassandra Taylor - National Legal Counsel, Electrical Trades Union of Australia
  • Michael Mead - Partner, Kingston Reid
  • Phil Boncardo - Barrister, Wardell Chambers
  • Christa Lenard - Partner, Kingston Reid, IRSNSW President
  • Glen Williams - Newcastle Branch, Secretary Maritime Union of Australia
  • Brad Popple - Partner, Kingston Reid
  • Vanessa Bennett, Director, Next Evolution Performance
  • Alana Rafter, Senior Associate, Australian Business Lawyers & Advisors

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• IRSWA - JIR & IRSWA Special Issue Launch Event

  • When
    7 May 2025
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    UWA Business School, Crawley

  

  
  

  Join your IRSWA colleagues and get along to UWA business school to enjoy an exciting evening launching the JIR's new special issue on psychosocial workplace hazards!

  Psychosocial workplace hazards (PSWH) are increasingly being studied and regulated. The Journal of Industrial Relations special issue brings together research and insights on PSWH from an employment relations perspective.

  Engage in the conversation with Dr Alexis Vassiley and other guest editors of the special issue at this unique event.

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• IRSWA - 2025 Conference

  • Start
    23 May 2025
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    8:30 AM
  • End
    24 May 2025
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    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Rendezvous Hotel on Scarborough Beach

  

  
  

  Navigating Change in IR:

  Reviewing the Last Decade and Looking to the Next

  The WA IR Conference is back in 2025 with a range of excellent speakers at the beautiful Rendezvous Hotel on Scarborough Beach. Come along and enjoy 2 days of development, learning and networking from professionals in all IR sectors including law, public policy, academia, business management, consulting and more.

  The conference will be filled with insights from distinguished speakers including:

  • The Honourable Simone McGurk MLA, Minister for Creative Industries; Heritage; Industrial Relations; Aged Care and Seniors; Women
  • Deputy President Melanie Binet, Fair Work Commission
  • Commissioner Charmaine Tsang, Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission
  • Daniel Crick, Executive Director - Operations, Employer Assistance and Compliance Branch, Fair Work Ombudsman
  • David Scaife MLA, Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier and Member for Cockburn
  • Senator Varun Ghosh, Senator for Western Australia
  • Sam Pack, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
  • Rikki Hendon, Secretary, UnionsWA
  • Dr Tom Barratt, Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, UWA Business School
  • Dr Caleb Goods, Senior Lecturer, Management and Organisations, UWA Business School
  • Conrad Liveris, Economist and non-profit Executive
  • Aden Date, Facilitator and Founder/Director of Only the Human
  • Nick Ellery, Barrister, Francis Burt Chambers
  • Kathryn Hunter, Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons
  • Cory Fogliani, Principal Lawyer, Fogliani Lawyers

  Your ticket to the conference includes a long table lunch and three-course dinner and drinks on the Friday evening!

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• IRSV - Advocacy Skills Series 1: Mediation in the Federal Courts

  • When
    27 May 2025
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    5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Location
    Online

  

  
  

  IRSV's 2025 Advocacy Skills Series 

  Mediation in the Federal Courts

  
  

  

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• ALERA National Professional Development Unfair Dismissal Webinar Series

  • When
    5 Jun 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom Webinar

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  ALERA, in conjunction with State and Territory societies, is excited to share the details for the second of four National professional development lunchtime masterclasses on Unfair Dismissal. These webinars are free for all industrial relations society members.

  We invite you to join us for the second session in June, presented by Vice Present Asbury on “When is a dismissal unfair? Assessing merits”. The session will include a live Q&A, providing an opportunity for members to engage directly with the Vice President.
  

  When: Thursday, 5 June 2025

  Where: Zoom Webinar (Online)

  Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM (AEST)

  Cost: Complimentary for all IRS members nationally. Please register through your state or territory IRS.

  NT Industrial Relations colleagues, please register here.

  Cost Non-members: $40.00

  

  Ms Ingrid Asbury is a Vice President of the Fair Work Commission and the Chairperson of the Northern Territory Police Arbitral Tribunal. Prior to her appointment as Vice President in 2023, Ms Asbury was a Deputy President of the Commission from 2013. Ms Asbury was appointed Commissioner of the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission in 2000 and has been a Member of the Fair Work Commission and its predecessors since 2001. Prior to her appointment to the QIRC, Vice President Asbury was the National Industry Group Manager for the Australian Industry Group and in this role developed and implemented industrial relations strategies on major infrastructure and resource development projects throughout Australia.

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• IRSV - Advocacy Skills Series 2: Ethics and Etiquette at the FWC

  • When
    23 Jul 2025
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    5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
  • Location
    Online

  

  
  

  IRSV's 2025 Advocacy Skills Series 

  Ethics and Etiquette at the FWC

  
  

  

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• IRSV - Advocacy Skills Series 3: Appellate Advocacy at the FWC

  • When
    18 Sep 2025
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    5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    In person

  

  
  

  IRSV's 2025 Advocacy Skills Series 

  Appellate Advocacy at the FWC

  
  

  

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