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Day 1 – Thursday 23 July
| Time | Room One | Room Two | Room Three |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00pm | 📅 ARC Linkage Project Conviction Politics led by Monash University Unshackled: the convict origins of Australian unions and democracy |
📅 SDA Unlocking opportunity for Young Australians |
📅 United Workers Union A trailblazing tripartite model for skilled migration |
| 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 |
📅 Maurice Blackburn The Motherhood Penalty: Can Fair Work Fix It? |
| 2:00pm | 📅 Labor Academy (SA & Vic), WA Fabians and TrainLab 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 Sharing the load: the case for greater investment in freight moved by rail |
| 3:00pm | 📅 The Socially Democratic Live Podcast Growing and Reaching More ALP Membership |
📅 The Australia Institute A 3-point plan for gas: How Australia can lower energy prices, support manufacturing and reduce emissions |
📅 Working Class Women Talk Working Class Women Talk About Work: A National Survey |
| 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 |
📅 UTS Centre for Indigenous People and Work Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Gender equality employment policy reforms that work for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women |
| 5:00pm | 📅 Fringe Main Space: Book Launch: The Light on the Hill – sponsored by Slater & Gordon | ||
| 6:00pm | 📅 Fringe Main Space: The Program – Incoming ALP National President Kate Ellis, with new MPs Claire Clutterham & Matt Smith — hosted by Peter Lewis | ||
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 – What's Next? A conversation about what it means to be a progressive and whether it's enough to win |
📅 Australian Institute for Machine Learning AI and the Future of Labor |
📅 LEAN and the Superpower Institute Who Pays for Pollution? The Polluter Pays Levy |
| 1:00pm | 📅 ABC Friends and Alliance for Journalists' Freedom Restoring Trust in Public Interest Journalism |
📅 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 and Smart Energy Council Decarbonising the World: COP 31 |
| 3:00pm | 📅 Chifley Research Centre and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung International Panel: Reinvigorating Social Democracy to Defeat the Populist Right |
📅 United Workers Union Make early learning public and free |
📅 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's International Law obligations |
📅 LaTrobe University 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 – Fair AI Launch | ||
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 Australia's Rental Emergency: Practical Next Steps for Secure Renting and a Sustainable Rental Market |
📅 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 |
| 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 When Government Systems Cause Harm & Why the National Audit Should Become Standard Practice |
| 1:00pm | 📅 MEAA Child's Play: Developing a lifelong love for arts and culture in Australia |
📅 Elizabeth Reid Network Supporting women staffers – SA Launch and Conference Gathering |
📅 Australian Services Union and Unions NSW Don't Subpoena Our Support – Keep Counselling Confidential |
| Fringe concludes | |||