I am the lead for MinterEllison's Workplace, Tax and Consulting Practice lines; a practicing partner in the Workplace practice; a member of the MinterEllison Services Board and a Non-Executive Director for the Stroke Foundation. 

I also regularly conduct in house training sessions on workplace relations matters and defensible decision making.

I have acted predominantly, but not exclusively, for employers in NZ and Australia for over 20 years in the public and private sectors and in industries including State & Local Government, Health, Aged Care, Education, Agribusiness, Finance, Insurance and Tech.

From a history at the blended bar in NZ and a strong public sector practice I also have a not so secret passion for administrative law.

Career highlights

• Advising numerous employers on strategic Industrial Relations matters, Union engagement, Enterprise agreement negotiations, termination of agreements and business structuring across a number of sectors.
• Acting for professional services firms and medical partnerships in partnership dissolutions and contentious disputes
• Acting for various Federal, State and Local Government departments and statutory bodies in defence of administrative decision making including in the Administrative
• Appeal Tribunal and the Supreme Court of Queensland
• Advising on large public sector change programmes involving various stakeholders and unions
• Repeatedly enforcing comprehensive restraints in both the State and Federal Courts for a large national insurer
• Successfully defending Ramsay Healthcare in a class action led by the Queensland
• Nurses' Union claiming all 24/7 rostered nursing staff were entitled to all gazetted public holidays whether or not they had rostered or ordinary hours.
• Successfully defending Blue Care in a large classification and demarcation dispute in relation to unregistered care workers
• ProBono work with the Domestic Violence Action Centre, Basic Rights Queensland and many more.

Education
LLB, ADVANCED LITIGATION SKILLS CERTIFICATE

• Draft Anti-Discrimination Bill 2024 (Qld) consultation
  

  The Queensland Government has released a consultation draft of a new Anti-Discrimination Bill 2024 (Qld).

• Vaccine directions in the Queensland public sector
  

  The Queensland Supreme Court has recently considered whether vaccine directions issued to Queensland police and ambulance workers were lawful at the time that they were made by reference to the human rights standards in the Human Rights Act. We explore the decision and its implications.

• Changes proposed by the new Queensland Industrial Relations Bill 2016
  

  On 1 September 2016, the Palaszczuk Government introduced the long awaited Industrial Relations Bill 2016 (Bill) to the Queensland Parliament.

• New Labour Hire Licensing Scheme 2018
  

  Update from our HR&IR team about Queensland's new Labour Hire Licensing Regulation 2018.

• Queensland's 'Right to Education': implications for State educational institutions
  

  We continue our series of updates about some of the key human rights protected under the new Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) with an overview of the right to education.

• Managing departing employees - are you prepared?
  

  How to best ensure employees leaving your organisation do not take confidential information or intellectual property.