XXIXth Conference Programme

Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair*

27-28th March 2009
401 Collins Street Melbourne
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Friday Evening 27th March

Dinner: 6:30 for 7.00 pm
Guest speaker: John Stone


Saturday Morning 28th March
Conference opens at 8:45

Session I
Chairman: Adam Bisits

9:00 The view from Washington DC
President Obama, the unions, and the rise of protectionism
Brian Johnson

9:40 Felix Frankfurter's influence in America and Australia
Stuart Wood

10:20 Discussion with panel: Alex Robson, Julie Novak
10:40 Morning Tea
Session II
Chairman: Des Moore

The Gillard Bill
11:00 Simon Billing
11:40 Kyle Kutasi
12:20 Peter Hendy
1:00 Lunch

2:00 Session III
Chairman Rob Thomson

Gary Morgan and Michelle Levine
The real statistics on unemployment

2:45 James Guest on internationalising employment contracts

3.30 Afternoon tea

4:00 Session IV
Chairman: Bob Day

The NSW Experience
4:00 Ken Phillips
New South Wales - systemically corrupt

4:45 Gerard Boyce
Your Rights At Work - The Public Relations Stitch-Up

5:30 Session V

Political cultures and their significance
Panel discussion with Brian Johnson, Ray Evans and Gideon Rozner

6:00 Adjournment


7:00 for 7:30 Dinner
Guest Speaker: Hugh Morgan AC



*From Macbeth: Act I, Scene I

First Witch
When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Second Witch
When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.

Third Witch
That will be ere the set of sun.

First Witch
Where the place?

Second Witch
Upon the heath.
There to meet with Macbeth.

First Witch
I come, Graymalkin!

Second Witch
Paddock calls.

Third Witch
Anon.

ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.

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