Speeches & Opinions
Read speeches and opinion articles by ACTU officers and staff.
Our collection contains speeches delivered at conferences, forums, summits, rallies and events by Executive and senior ACTU staff. It also contains op-eds previously published in mainstream media by the ACTU President, ACTU Secretary or ACTU Assistant Secretaries.
Recent Speeches & Opinions
Dave Oliver: Bashing workers is no solution
July 25, 2013
To have a truly productive and prosperous society, we need workers with satisfying and secure jobs, good wages, training and a stake in the success of their workplace.
Tim Lyons Paper to the 21st Labour Law Conference, Workplace Research Centre & Law School, Sydney University, 22 July 2013
July 22, 2013
In a paper delivered to the 21st Labour Law Conference hosted by Sydney University’s Workplace Research Centre & Law School, ACTU Assistant Secretary Tim Lyons discussed the purpose of industrial regulation, and its connection with productivity.
Dave Oliver: A race to the bottom on wages and conditions is a dead-end strategy for the auto industry
June 24, 2013
In the search for cost savings and efficiencies, unions will seek to engage with auto industry employers to achieve greater productivity through the high road of high performance and high trust workplaces, not the low road of cutting wages and conditions, or creating a more insecure workforce, writes ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver.
Dave Oliver address to CEDA ‘State of the Nation’ conference, 24 June 2013
June 24, 2013
ACTU Secretary Dave Oliver addressed the Committee for Economic Development of Australia ‘State of the Nation – Australia Adjusting’ conference on 24 June 2013.
Ged Kearney address to ‘The Accord 30 Years On’ symposium, 31 May 2013
May 31, 2013
In a speech on the 30th anniversary of the Prices and Incomes Accord, ACTU President Ged Kearney reflected on the legacy of the Accord for the union movement today, and called for a new tripartite approach to economic challenges at an industry level in the spirit of the Accord.
Dave Oliver address to the Australian Industry Group, 6 May 2013
May 6, 2013
In an address to the Australian Industry Group’s PIR Conference on 6 May, 2013, Dave Oliver discussed industry policy, industrial relations policy, and the relationship between unions and the Ai Group.
Tim Lyons address to the ALP National Policy Forum, 4 May 2013
May 4, 2013
In an address to the ALP National Policy Forum, ACTU Assistant Secretary Tim Lyons sets out a Labor/labour vistion for the economy and government that is about raising and protecting living standards.
Ged Kearney: Why do we stand for sweatshop labour?
May 1, 2013
The Rana factory disaster in Bangladesh wasn’t the first of its kind – and it won’t be the last while workers in the developing world are denied basic rights, writes ACTU President Ged Kearney
Ged Kearney address to the Victorian ALP State Conference, 21 April 2013
April 21, 2013
In her Plenary Address to the Victorian ALP State Conference on 21 April 2013, ACTU President Ged Kearney said that insecure work was an issue around which the industrial and political wings of the labour movement could unite and campaign together.
Ged Kearney address to the 8th Asian Regional Congress of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association
April 11, 2013
ACTU President, Ged Kearney addressed the 8th Asian Regional Congress of the International Labour and Employment Relations Association, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on 11 April 2013 on the the Industrial Relations Reform Agenda.
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