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Our Work Our Lives 2010

3rd National Conference, Women and Industrial Relations 12 & 13 August 2010, Darwin, NT

[For details on other previous Our Work, Our Lives Conferences, click here to visit the Working Women's national website]

The 3rd Our Work Our Lives conference held in Darwin was a huge success. It was hosted by the Northern Territory Working Women's Centre (with the National Working Womens' Centres) with the support of the University of Western Australia.  Our keynote speakers were Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick, Professor Marian Baird from the University of Sydney 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. View the complete program or find invidual papers below. 
Welcome to Country:
Bilawarra Lee, Larrakia Nation
Keynote Addresses
Senator Jacinta Collins
Sex Discrimination Commission Elizabeth Broderick (word version) (pdf version)
Professor Marian Baird (paper unavailable)
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
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?
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.

 

 

 

 

 Our Work Our Lives Conference - Queensland 2013

The Next Our Work, Our Lives Conference will be held in Queensland in 2013. For more information or to register your interest, please contact the Queenlsand Working Women's Service on 1800 621 458 or via their website.