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October 11 2006

Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2006

In August 1998 Dr Clare Burton, widely respected academic and consultant in gender equity, passed away. To commemorate her life and work, ATN WEXDEV – a career development program designed for senior women in five major Australian universities – hosts an annual memorial lecture. The ATN comprises Curtin University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of South Australia and University of Technology, Sydney.
The lecture to be presented in 2006 is

Jobs, Care and Justice: A Fair Work Regime for Australia

Speaker:     Professor Barbara Pocock
Date:           Wednesday 18 October 2006
Venue:        Stamford Plaza, 150 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Time:          5.30pm – 7.30pm
RSVP:         For catering purposes please reply by 13 October 2006 to Miss Daranee Kirtland, Human Resources Unit
Bookings line: 8302 1758

Barbara Pocock joined the University of South Australia in 2006 to establish the Centre for Work & Life, as part of the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. She explains:

Australia – a rich country – is experimenting in radical ways with industrial laws and care regimes. Inequality in the labour market is widening, as some Australians do well out of a changing labour market whilst many other workers and their children are not so lucky.

The labour market is a place of interdependence. The well-paid rely upon the low-paid. The producers need the reproducers. This lecture explores how, in this environment, fairer and more sustainable work and care outcomes can be secured – for Australian women, men and children.

Professor Pocock has been investigating work in Australia for more than 25 years and since 2003, with the award of a five-year Queen Elizabeth Fellowship, has been analysing the nature of the fit (or misfit) between work, home and community in Australia. She has also undertaken research on vocational education, low pay, casual work, long hours, gender pay inequality, the politics of unions, industrial relations, gender and work, employment and work and family.

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