Speakers
Hon Richard Marles
Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Australia
Richard Marles was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Corio in November 2007. In 2009, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry. In 2010, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs. In 2012, he was appointed to the additional role of Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
In 2000, he became Assistant Secretary of the ACTU and ran the Working Hours Case which gave workers the right, for the first time, to refuse unreasonable amounts of overtime.
He was a member of the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission and led the ACTU’s work on OHS. He also led an innovative program of co-operation between the Australian and Papua New Guinea union movements.
He was Chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Affairs from February 2008 to June 2009.