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The Conference Programme
As well as the speeches we have published the programme included other activities aimed at helping to develop the "rights at Work" campaign.
To give you an idea of the depth and breadth of the conference we have published the programme. It may also serve as a prompt for ideas that might be incorporated into this year's conference. While not yet decided, this year's themes are likely to be the ongoing "Your Rights at Work" national campaign and the PSA's "Public Interest -- Job Cuts = Service Cuts" campaign.
Here is the 2005 agenda:-
Thursday 8th September
| 8.30 am | Registration
| | 9.00 am | Welcome to Country - Aboriginal elder, Millie Ingram |
| 9.15 am | Conference Opening & Welcome Address - Cheryl McGuire, Chair PSA Women's Council and PSA Senior Vice President
Anne Kennelly, Women's Industrial Officer, presents organisational details. |
| 9.35 am | Alison Peters - Deputy Assistant Secretary Unions NSW
Discussion |
| 10.50 am | Anne Summers, best selling author and columnist with a long career in politics and the media. In November 2003 she published her latest book The End of Equality: Work, Babies and Woman's Choices in 21st Century Australia. Twenty-eight years earlier, in 1975 her first book Damned Whores and God's Police, changed the way women were perceived in Australia. She was a political adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating prior to the 1993 federal elections and ran the Office of the Status of Women for Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1983 to 1986.Currently, Chair of the Board of Greenpeace International and Deputy President of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum, she writes an opinion column for the Sydney Morning Herald. |
| 11.35 am | Panel of Experts -- Anne Summers, Alison Peters and Fran Hayes.
Alison is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Unions NSW.
Fran is from the National Pay Equity Coalition
Alison and Fran will talk for approx ten minutes.
Then questions from the floor and Discussion |
| 12.45 am | A Word from our Sponsor SGE Credit Union |
| 2.00 pm | Karen Volpato from State Super Financial Services |
| 2.15 pm | Introduction to Workshops -- ACTU "Your Rights at Work - Worth Fighting For" PowerPoint presentation with panel of three PSA industrial staff |
| 3.30 pm | Workshops - "Your Rights at Work"
Conference participants will break up into 5 workshops to discuss strategies for developing the "Your Rights at Work" campaign in their workplace |
| 5.00 pm | End of Day One.
Lucky Door Prize Draw |
Friday 9th September
| 8.30 am | Registration |
| 9.00 am | Commencement of Day 2 - Cheryl McGuire, Chair PSA Women's Council and PSA Senior Vice President
Organisational details - Anne Kennelly, Women's Industrial Officer |
| 9.10 am | Address by Sue Walsh, PSA President |
| 9.30 am | Mark Lennon, Unions NSW Assistant Secretary |
| 10.05 am | Dr Rae Cooper Rae is one of Australia's leading researchers in the area of trade union strategy. She has written extensively on trade union renewal and organising. She is Vice President of the think tank, the Evatt Foundation. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Labour History and is Review Editor for the journal. Rae is a member of the Executive of the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand. Rae is one of the 17 academics who recently came out in opposition to the Federal IR changes
Discussion |
| 11.20 am | Tanya Plibersek - Shadow Minister for Work, Family and Community, Shadow Minister for Women, Shadow Minister for Youth and Early Childhood Education
Discussion |
| 12.00 noon | Doreen Borrow - Retired unionists, peace activist |
| 12.30 pm | Mary Yaager, OH&S Officer Unions NSW on Public Service Bullying Policy |
| 2.00 pm | Workshops
- Meeting Skills
- Public Speaking Skills
- How to influence and motivate people
- Women and Superannuation
- Health and Well being workshop
- Finding your way through the PSA
- Negotiation skills
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| 3.50 pm | Entertainment provided by Kelly Nash, Absolutely Women's Health, Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. |
| 4.15 pm | Close of Conference by Cheryl McGuire, Chair of Women's Council
Lucky Door Prize Draw |
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