Justice at work: industrial citizenship and the corporatization of Australian labour law/ created by Ron McCallum

Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. It is indeed a great honour to have been asked to deliver the 2005 Kingsley Laffer Memorial Lecture here at the University of Sydney. Kingsley Laffer was a pioneer of Australian industrial relations teaching and scholarship. He joined the University of Sydney in 1944 and for the next three decades he championed the discipline of Australian industrial relations. In my view, Kingsley’s most enduring achievement was his foundation editorship of the Journal of Industrial Relations that lasted for some 18 years. This journal that was cradled here at the University of Sydney, is undoubtedly Australia’s premier industrial relations review and is read throughout the world. We all owe him an enormous debt that I hope I and the other 12 givers of this annual lecture that bears his name can repay through the distillation of our research and scholarship.2