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AAT members and staff undertake a wide range of activities that assist to raise awareness of our role, procedures and activities. They give speeches and are panel members at conferences and seminars, participate in training and other engagement activities, and publish articles. Members and staff also serve on the committees of associations and other bodies relevant to the work of the AAT. The record of activities for 2015-16 is in four lists:

  • speeches and presentations
  • training and other engagement activities
  • publications, and
  • service on committees.

Table A6.1 Speeches and presentations, 2015-16

TITLE/ROLE EVENT/ORGANISATION SPEAKER(S) DATE
Celebrating 30 Years Hobart Community Legal Service, Hobart Justice Duncan Kerr 10 July 2015
Administrative Appeals Tribunal: Post Amalgamation Department of Human Services Community Consultative Forum, Perth Barry Johnson, District Registrar 23 July 2015
Authorised Review Officers and Tribunals: What is the Difference? Department of Human Services Authorised Review Officers’ Conference, Melbourne Acting Deputy President Jim Walsh Senior Member Irene Tsiakas 20 August 2015
Presentation on the Impact of the Amalgamation of the SSAT with the AAT on Reviews of Social Security Decisions National Welfare Rights Network Conference, Melbourne Acting Deputy President Jim Walsh Sandra Koller, Director Legal and Policy 22 August 2015
Interpreting for the AAT Migration and Refugee Division Lecture, RMIT University, Melbourne Member Don Lucas 24 August 2015
Tribunal Advocacy Bar Readers’ Course, South Australian Bar Association, Adelaide Deputy President Katherine Bean 26 August 2015
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal following Amalgamation Federal Court Judges Meeting, Sydney Justice Duncan Kerr 27 August 2015
Authorised Review Officers and Tribunals: What is the Difference? Department of Human Services Authorised Review Officers’ Conference, Parramatta Senior Member Suellen Bullock 27 August 2015
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Australian Lawyers Alliance ACT Branch Conference, Canberra Kim Lackenby, Conference Registrar 28 August 2015
Transformational Change Government Solicitors Conference, Law Society of NSW Sian Leathem, Registrar 1 September 2015
A Day in the Life of a Migration and Refugee Division Member Lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast Senior Member Don Smyth 5 September 2015
Reviewing the Reviewer: The Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Administrative Review Council and the Road Ahead The Professor Jack Richardson Memorial Oration, ACT Law Society and the Association of Corporate Counsel Australia, Canberra Justice Duncan Kerr 15 September 2015
Good Faith in Alternative Dispute Resolution at the AAT Lecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane Justin Toohey, Director Alternative Dispute Resolution 2 October 2015
Welcome and Opening Address National Registrars and Executive Officers Conference, Council of Australasian Tribunals, Sydney Justice Duncan Kerr 16 October 2015
Modern Day Approaches to the Application Process - Tribunal Experiences Elizabeth Connolly, Acting Division Registrar 16 October 2015
Freedom of Information: Lessons from Recent Experience Lecture, Australian National University College of Law, Canberra Senior Member Dr James Popple 5 November 2015
Speaker Launch of Control of Government Action - Text, Cases & Commentary (4th edition) by Robin Creyke, John McMillan and Mark Smyth, Sydney Justice Duncan Kerr 19 November 2015
Welcome and Opening Address Hot Topics in Commonwealth Compensation Seminar, Law Council of Australia, Sydney Justice Duncan Kerr 20 November 2015
Procedure at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Administrative Law and Appeals Seminar, Legalwise Seminars, Sydney Sian Leathem, Registrar 25 November 2015
AAT Amalgamation Administrative Law Forum, Minter Ellison, Canberra Sian Leathem, Registrar 27 November 2015
Panel Member Responding to the Challenges of Delivering Alternative Dispute Resolution Services in Courts and Tribunals Seminar, AAT, Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal and Griffith University, Brisbane Justin Toohey, Director Alternative Dispute Resolution 30 November 2015
Getting the WooW Factor™ - Work and Out of Work Life Balance Women Legal 2016, Sydney Member Katie Malyon 29 January 2016
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Federal Court of Australia and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Lecture, Australian National University, Canberra Kim Lackenby, Conference Registrar 24 February 2016
Getting the WooW Factor™ - Work and Out of Work Life Balance Women Lawyers Association of NSW, Sydney Member Katie Malyon 25 February 2016
Administrative Appeals Tribunal in Practice Lecture, University of Canberra, Canberra Kim Lackenby, Conference Registrar 25 February 2016
What Makes a Good Advocate: The View from the Other Side Summer Series Civil Law Day, Legal Aid Western Australia, Perth Deputy President
Dr Christopher Kendall
(co-presenter)
26 February 2016
The New AAT: An Update for Migration Lawyers 2016 Continuing Professional Development Immigration Law Conference, Law Council of Australia, Melbourne Senior Member John Billings 5 March 2016
An Introduction - the Immigration Assessment Authority Sobet Haddad, Senior Reviewer, Immigration Assessment Authority 5 March 2016
Seven Deadly Sins: How Government Can Block the Way to the Correct or Preferable Decision Workers’ Compensation Law Forum, Australian Government Solicitor, Canberra Deputy President Gary Humphries 17 March 2016
An Introduction to the AAT: What We Do Post-Amalgamation Lecture, University of Notre Dame, Perth Deputy President
Dr Christopher Kendall
4 April 2016
Alternative Dispute Resolution at the AAT - An Integrated Approach to Case Management Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Brisbane Justin Toohey, Director Alternative Dispute Resolution 7 April 2016
Review of Migration Decisions: Advice for New Migration Agents Lecture, Murdoch University, Perth Member Tony Caravella 12 April 2016
A Day in the Life of a Migration and Refugee Division Member Lecture, Griffith University, Gold Coast Member Fraser Syme 16 April 2016
Procedural Fairness: Cases involving People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds 2016 Conference, Victorian Chapter of the Council of Australasian Tribunals, Melbourne Senior Member John Billings 22 April 2016
Affording Procedural Fairness: Culture and Interpreters in Tribunal Hearings Member John Longo 22 April 2016
Panel Members: Ensuring a Fair Hearing - Matters involving Persons with a Mental Illness, Cognitive Impairment or Intellectual Disability Senior Member Jill Toohey
Susan Woodford, District Registrar
22 April 2016
Alternative Dispute Resolution in the AAT Lecture, University of Tasmania, Hobart Catherine Scott, District Registrar 27 April 2016
Welcome and Opening Address Hot Topics in Commonwealth Compensation Seminar, Law Council of Australia, Sydney Justice Duncan Kerr 13 May 2016
Panel Members Ethical Limits of Advocacy at Mediation Seminar, Law Society of South Australia, Adelaide Member Steve Georgiadis
Franca Petrone, Conference Registrar
3 June 2016
Welcome and Opening Address 2016 National Conference, Council of Australasian Tribunals, Hobart Justice Duncan Kerr 9 June 2016
Panel Members: Discussion on Self-Represented Applicants FOI and Litigation Branch National Litigation Conference, Department of Human Services, Sydney Senior Member Suellen Bullock
Allan Teves, Acting District Registrar
Stephen Shepherd, Conference Registrar
21 June 2016
Migration and Protection Visa Reviews in the AAT Lecture, Mercy College, Perth Member Tony Caravella 22 June 2016

Table A6.2 Training and other engagement activities, 2015-16

TITLE/ROLE EVENT/ORGANISATION PARTICIPANT(S)
/PRESENTER(S)
DATE
Participant NAIDOC Week Community Event, Information Stall, Melbourne Melbourne Registry staff 8 July 2015
Participant NAIDOC Week Community Event, Information Stall, Brisbane Brisbane Registry staff 10 July 2015
The Social Services and Child Support Division of the AAT and the former Social Security Appeals Tribunal Clinical Student Induction Day, Social Security Rights Victoria, Melbourne Senior Member Irene Tsiakas
Marianne Evans, District Registrar
10 July 2015
Participant Northern Territory and South Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme Stakeholder Reference Group, Adelaide Catherine Cashen, District Registrar 30 July 2015,
11 November 2015, 18 February 2016
Tribunal Member for Mock Hearings Migration Institute of Australia Practice Ready Programme, Sydney

Senior Member John Cipolla

Senior Member Kira Raif

Senior Member Antoinette Younes

Member Wendy Banfield

Member Robert Titterton

12 August 2015,

27 November 2015,

24 February 2016,

6 April 2016,

13 May 2016

Presenters Visit to the AAT by District Judges from the State Courts of Singapore, Sydney

Mary Desses, Athena Harris Ingall, Kim Richardson and Stephen Shepard, Conference Registrars

Justin Toohey, Director Alternative Dispute Resolution

Staff of the Performance and Development team

26 October 2015
Administrative Law Hearing Assessment Leo Cussen Institute, Melbourne Member John Longo 23 November 2015
Presenters Visit to the AAT by Senior Administrators from the Supreme Court of Myanmar, Sydney

Allan Teves, Acting District Registrar

Staff of the Performance and Development team

1 December 2015
Presenters Tour of the AAT, Inspire U Law Camp for Indigenous Students, Brisbane

Catherine Cashen, District Registrar

Adelaide Registry staff

8 December 2015
Presiding Judge for Mock Trials University of Tasmania Advocacy Summer School, Hobart Justice Duncan Kerr 14 January 2016
The Appeal Process at the AAT in Department of Human Services Matters

Department of Human Services Multicultural Workers, Adelaide

Northern Cultural Diversity Group, Elizabeth

Community Workers Forum, Murray Bridge

Riverland Community Workers, Berri

Community Workers Forum, Broken Hill

Zaharoula Karzis-Wyatt, Team Leader and Outreach Coordinator

5 April 2016,

21 April 2016,

23 May 2016,

24 May 2016,

25 May 2016

Area Social Work Meeting Department of Human Services, Hobart Marianne Evans, District Registrar 12 April 2016
Australian representative 12th Congress of the International Association of Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions, Turkey Justice Duncan Kerr 2-6 May 2016
Management of Social Services and Child Support Matters in the AAT Victoria Legal Aid Liaison Meeting, Melbourne

Senior Member Irene Tsiakas

Marianne Evans, District Registrar

Mandy Fisher, Team Leader

13 May 2016
AAT Update NDIS External Merits Review Support Component Workshop, Canberra Catherine Cashen, District Registrar 20 May 2016
Presenters Tour at the AAT, Inspire U Law Camp for Indigenous Students, Brisbane

Justin Toohey, Director Alternative Dispute Resolution

Eoin Coffey, Legal Associate

Elaine Rigg, Member Support Team

29 June 2016

Table A6.3 Publications, 2015-16

TITLE AUTHOR CITATION/PUBLISHER
‘Debt Recovery by Centrelink and the Family Assistance Office’, Chapter 7.5 in Lawyers’ Practice Manual Victoria Member Inge Sheck (co-author) Thomson Reuters
‘Enemy Aliens in the First World War: Legal and Constitutional Issues’, Chapter 2 in Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace: Canadian State Trials Volume IV, 1914-1939 Deputy President Peter McDermott University of Toronto Press

Table A6.4 lists the roles performed by AAT members and staff who served on the committees of associations or other bodies during all or part of the reporting year.

Table A6.4 Service on committees, 2015-16

ORGANISATION PARTICIPANT ROLE
Council of Australasian Tribunals
- National Executive
Justice Duncan Kerr Chair

Council of Australasian Tribunals
- New South Wales Chapter

Senior Member Kira Raif Committee Member
Sian Leathem, Registrar Treasurer/Committee Member

Council of Australasian Tribunals
- South Australian Chapter

Deputy President Katherine Bean Committee Member
Senior Member Sue Raymond Committee Member
Member Marten Kennedy Secretary

Council of Australasian Tribunals
- Victorian Chapter

Senior Member Irene Tsiakas President
Member Regina Perton Committee Member
Susan Woodford, District Registrar Committee Member
Institute of Public Administration Australia Sian Leathem, Registrar Vice President (Events and Communities)