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Day 1 – Thursday 23 July

Time	Room One	Room Two	Room Three
12:00pm	📅 Monash University Unshackled: the convict origins of Australian unions and democracy	📅 SDA Unlocking opportunity for Young Australians	📅 United Workers Union Migration, the visa system and the care economy
1:00pm	📅 ACT Indigenous Labor Network Wave Hill Walk-off 60th Anniversary – Indigenous Rights and the labour movement	📅 Brotherhood of St Laurence Why we need official poverty measures	📅 Jessica Miscamble / Maurice Blackburn How the Fair Work Act perpetuates the male breadwinner model
2:00pm	📅 Labor Academy Catalysing the rank and file	📅 John Curtin Research Centre Defending Australia: A National Artificial Intelligence Sovereign Capability and Security Agenda for the 21st Century	📅 Rail, Tram and Bus Union Freight on rail
3:00pm	📅 Dunn Street Community Organising – Real Stories	📅 The Australia Institute A 3-point plan for gas: How Australia can lower energy prices, support manufacturing and reduce emissions	📅 Working Class Women Talk Roundtable with UTS and Sonja Terpsta MP
4:00pm	📅 Labor Against War and The Australia Institute A public inquiry into AUKUS	📅 Council on the Ageing A Fair Go at Every Age: Dignity in Retirement Beyond the Generational Divide	📅 Centre for Indigenous People and Work The Price of Inequality: Understanding and addressing the Indigenous pay gap
5:00pm	📅 Fringe Main Space: Book Launch: The Light on the Hill – sponsored by Slater & Gordon
6:00pm	📅 Fringe Main Space: ALP The Program – Live Podcast

Day 2 – Friday 24 July

Time	Room One	Room Two	Room Three
Breakfast	📅 Fringe Main Space: Labor Indigenous Political Pathways Launch
9:00am	📅 Labor for an Australian Republic Group An Australian Republic by 2032	📅 Katherine Hudson Solidarity Forever? How Australian Trade Unions are Making Sense of Technology-Led Job Obsolescence	📅 Australian Labor Party National Secretariat Yarning Circle
10:00am	📅 ACTU and APHEDA Lessons and reflections from the Myanmar union movement's struggle for democracy	📅 Victorian TAFE Association and Victorian Trades Hall Council Antidote: how to fight the populist right	📅 Unionists for a Job Guarantee Labor and a Union Job Guarantee for Full Employment
11:00am	📅 Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals What Australia can learn from the UK's agenda of doubling the co-operative and mutual economy	📅 Google AI Connect Academy	📅 Electrical Trades Union Powering the future
12:00pm	📅 McKell Institute I'm a progressive – now what?!	📅 Australian Institute for Machine Learning AI and the Future of Labor	📅 LEAN and the Superpower Institute A step change in Australia's emissions reductions: getting polluters to pay
1:00pm	📅 Friends of the ABC and Alliance for Journalists' Freedom Rebuilding trust in the news and democracy	📅 Senator Tony Sheldon AI, Productivity and the Workplace	📅 The Sunrise Project Climate and Energy: What do voters think?
2:00pm	📅 Dee Madigan The algorithm is not your friend – but it could be!	📅 Chifley Research Centre How to make Australia the best place to raise a family	📅 LEAN Changing the game through COP 31 – Australia's opportunity
3:00pm	📅 Chifley Research Centre, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and friends International Panel	📅 United Workers Union Early Childhood Education and Care	📅 OzHarvest and Circular Australia Rethinking Food 'Waste': A Circular Economy Opportunity
4:00pm	📅 Global Citizen and Labor for Aid The Future of Australian Aid – How Labor can Build a Safer World for All	📅 SNAICC Commitment to early education and care key to Closing the Gap	📅 Smart Energy Council and ETU Renewables and the Culture War: Power Prices, Populism and the Road to 2028
5:00pm	📅 Association for the Promotion of International Law Australia, International Law and Armed Conflict: What are our obligations?	📅 LaTrobe University and McKinnon Unlocking Opportunity: education reform for equity, excellence and impact	📅 Electric Vehicle Council Electricity is cheaper than petrol and diesel: the case for electrifying our cars, trucks and busses
5:15pm	📅 The Jade, 142–160 Flinders St, Adelaide: Socially Democratic – Feeney Files with Jessie McCrone – Live!
6:00pm	📅 Fringe Main Space: Per Capita – Burning Platforms Live

Day 3 – Saturday 25 July

Time	Room One	Room Two	Room Three
Breakfast	📅 Fringe Main Space: John Curtin Research Centre – Launch of Manufacturing Homes: A National Strategy for Solving Australia's Housing Crisis with Minister for Housing, Homelessness and Cities, Clare O'Neil MP
9:00am	📅 Pharmacy Guild Indigenous health outcomes; In conversation with Linda Burney	📅 National Shelter National Shelter policy launch	📅 Rail, Tram and Bus Union It's a bloody mess! Fighting for clean, safe and accessible facilities for transport workers
10:00am	📅 Asylum Seeker Resource Centre A fair go to rebuild – work and study rights for refugees	📅 Homelessness Australia Australia's homelessness emergency: What will it take to shift the dial?	📅 EMILY's List 30 years of getting women elected
11:00am	📅 Australian Labor Rainbow Network LGBTIQ+ Rights in Australia	📅 RMIT How to Grow Australia's Social Housing System At Scale – Coordinating finance, construction and institutions	📅 Working Women's Centre Australia Our Silence is Not for Sale: How do we end the silencing of women who want to speak up about workplace issues?
12:00pm	📅 Labor Enabled The Inclusion Revolution: Advocate, Include & Empower Disabled Voices	📅 Labor for Housing Safe as Houses – Next Frontiers for Labor's Housing Policy	📅 Single Mother Families Australia Why are we so excited about the Audit of Government Systems?
1:00pm	📅 MEAA Child's Play: Developing a lifelong love for arts and culture in Australia	📅 Elizabeth Reid Network SA Launch and Conference Gathering	📅 Australian Services Union and Unions NSW Don't Subpoena Our Support (Campaign to support survivors of sexual assault)
Fringe concludes