{"id":820380,"date":"2026-07-24T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820380\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:30:10","slug":"labor-national-conference-as-it-happened-ndis-gambling-on-agenda-as-protests-erupt-outside-adelaide-convention-centre-on-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/820380\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor National Conference as it happened: NDIS, gambling on agenda as protests erupt outside Adelaide Convention Centre on day two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has made a pitch to the party\u2019s union base, vowing to bolster powers to block employer retaliation against industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>She told the conference Labor would modernise Comcare to expand support for injured workers, double down on its same job, same pay reforms, and pursue a <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/fair-work-court-to-assist-australian-workers-with-employment-underpayment-issues-20260723-p60hwv.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new Fair Work Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth addressed the ALP national conference on Friday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/13d9a7843f9cc6ad11451d3c5d501326b69ccda4.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth addressed the ALP national conference on Friday.Dominic Lorrimer<\/p>\n<p>The party will also adopt an amendment today that vows to update the Fair Work Act and \u201censure that workers can never again be locked out by their employers for weeks or months on end in response to taking industrial action of a few hours or days\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisproportionate, extended lockouts cause serious harm to workers and their families, particularly in regional communities,\u201d Rishworth said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not fair, and that is why the amendment will commit a Labor government to put a stop to it, to change the law, to allow workers and their unions to apply to the Fair Work Commission to suspend disproportionate industrial action by employers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employment and Industrial Relations Minister Amanda Rishworth has made a pitch to the party\u2019s union base, vowing to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-820380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}