The Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in association with KPMG and Message Stick Group was delighted to host a boardroom lunch on 9 April 2018 with Hon. Richard Marles MP, Shadow Minister for Defence and Federal Member for Corio, on the changing nature of security in east Asia.

Richard Marles was elected to Federal Parliament as the Member for Corio in November 2007.

He began his career with legal firm Slater and Gordon. In 1998, he became Federal Assistant Secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union, where he was responsible for bargaining with national transport companies and managing the union’s activities in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

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 has previously served as Parliamentary Secretary for Innovation and Industry, Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, and Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Trade, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Border Protection.

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