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Our Work Our Lives 2010

Our Work Our Lives 2010 conference

3rd National Conference, Women and Industrial Relations

August 12-13 2010, Darwin NT

The 3rd Our Work Our Lives conference held in Darwin was a huge success. An enormous amount of research and experience was shared amongst industrial relations practitioners, academics, policy makers and other interested women.  
Watch this space for a full summary of the outcomes of the conference, highlights and photos. For now, have a look at some of the amazing papers that were presented below.
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Welcome to Country: Bilawarra Lee, Larrakia Nation
Keynote Addresses
Senator Jacinta Collins
Sex Discrimination Commission Elizabeth Broderick (paper to come)
Professor Marian Baird (paper to come)
 
Papers
Bandias, Susan & Warne, Leoni, The Career Stage Effect on Women in ICT: An Overview of the ACS-W Survey
Barrera, Susan & Garndner, Jenness & Horstman, Bob, Women’s experiences in the Western Australian mining industry: a snapshot in 2010
Barrett Meyering, Isobelle, Employment as a path to financial independence: why work matters to women experiencing domestic violence
Broadbent, Kaye & Strachan, Glenda & Bailey, Janis & Ressia, Susan, Reaching out: enhancing the accessibility of an employment rights advisory service for migrant women
Cassells, Rebecca, The wage gap in Australia, what it costs us, why it’s still here and will it ever go?
Charlesworth, Sara & McDonald, Paula & Ceris, Somali, ‘It’s not sexual harassment but…’legal and other understandings of sexual harassment in the workplace
Dann, Sandra & Carmody, Sonya & Von Wasserling, Teresa & Stojadinovic, Milijana, Vulnerable women workers: are the regulatory changes improving their position? Issues for vulnerable women accessing Working Women’s Centres
Davis, Kim, Closing the gap between policy and practice: employing indigenous women in the Northern Territory
De Araujo, Elisabeth & Dann, Sandra, Women and Work in Timor-Leste
Franzway, Suzanne & Zufferey, Carole & Moulding, Nicole & Chung, Donna, Domestic violence and multidimensional factors: investigating the impact of domestic violence on women’s health, employment and housing
Galton, Janette & Porrovecchio, Naomi, Pay Equity and Women in the Workplace: A Northern Territory Perspective
Georgalis, Sofie, Workplace Discrimination – the who, the what and the how of legal advocacy
Heffernan, Alana & Mataheare, Lee, Domestic violence and the employment relationship: is statutory protection necessary?
Hogan, Michelle, How can Government support Work Life Balance?
Hutchinson, Jacquie, They wouldn’t dare do it to a man’: Women managers’ experiences of workplace bullying (paper to come)
Masterman-Smith, Helen, Green jobs and a just transition for women workers?
McFerran, Ludo, Domestic Violence: Workplace Rights and Entitlements
McGrath, Donna-Louise, The national hazard of workplace bullying: implications of an Australian study
Nguyen, Minh, Moving Towards Cultural Competency
Partridge, Bridget, Telephone or Face-To-Face? Women’s Experience of Conciliation Conferences
Price, Susan, Adverse Action – a brave new world or same old same old?
Purdon, Ailsa, From Colonisation to Global Economy – black women workers in South Africa and the Northern Territory, Australia
Purdy, Anne & Levy, Nadine, Experiences of sexual harassment amongst young women workers: an exploration of power and opportunity
Van Barneveld, Kristen, The Sandwich Generation: On a Tightrope
Wells, Jeane, Flexible Work in 2010 – the impact of the Fair Work Act 2009 on employer control of, and employee access to, flexible working hours
Yuan, Kali & Hutchinson, Zoe, The Fair Work act and ‘Flexibility’ Clauses: AWAs In Another Guise?
  

About the conference

Almost a year on from the introduction of the Fair Work Act and the announcement of a national Paid Maternity Leave scheme, the industrial relations landscape for women is changing yet again. Issues around pay equity, work/life balance, workforce diversity and discrimination are hot topics. The 3rd national Our Work Our Lives Conference 2010 provided a forum to examine and reflect upon the current state of play for women in industrial relations. The program was designed to bring together those who make and implement policy, and those upon whom policy impacts, including academics, policy makers, practitioners, unions, community-based individuals and organizations, and anyone with an interest in gender and work. The conference was held in Darwin, at the world-class Darwin Convention Centre, on August 12th and 13th. The conference was hosted by the Northern Territory Working Women's Centre (with the National Working Women's Centres) with the support of the University of Western Australia. Our keynote speakers were Professor Marian Baird from the University of Sydney, Sex Discriminination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick and Senator Jacinta Collins (Special Advisor on Work and Family Balance and Pay Equity). The closing address was delivered by the Hon. Malarndirri McCarthy, NT Minister for Women's Policy, and the plenary panel was convened by Marion Scrymgour MLA.

Sponsors

We would like to thank our generous sponsors: the NT Chief Minister's Department, HESTA, the Office of Women's Policy (NT), the NT Department of Education, the Industrial Relations Society of Australia and Clayton Utz.