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Lisa Heap

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Lisa Heap

Senior Researcher

Dr Lisa Heap is a labour lawyer with over 30 years’ experience in industrial relations. She has held senior positions in the union movement and was previously the Executive Director of the Australian Institute of Employment Rights, and a technical advisor for the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

Lisa came to the Centre after completing her PhD (Law). Her research has focussed on gender and inequalities at work, work health and safety, workers’ privacy, and the regulation of work.

Research by Lisa Heap

Budget 2024-25: Resists Austerity, Reduces Inflation, Targets Wage Gains

Commonwealth Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivered his 2024-25 budget to Parliament. While it booked a surplus for 2023-24 (the second consecutive

By Greg Jericho, Lisa Heap, Charlie Joyce, Fiona Macdonald, Jim Stanford

Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training Inquiry into the Digital Transformation of Workplaces

AI boosts productivity but risks job quality, privacy, fairness, and wellbeing. Regulations are required to ensure decent, fair work.

By Fiona Macdonald, Lisa Heap

No Blood – No Job

With some Australian organisations routinely collecting highly sensitive worker data, clearer consent requirements and worker‑centred legal protections must be provided.

By Lisa Heap

Doing it Tough

This report documents the results of a recent survey of Australian adults regarding their experience of the cost of living

By Lisa Heap

Submission to Industrial Relations Victoria Inquiry on Restricting Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in Workplace Sexual Harassment Cases

NDAs may protect victims’ privacy but power imbalances coerce signatures, silencing survivors, enabling repeat harassment, and obscuring prevalence; greater transparency

By Lisa Heap, David Peetz

Briefing Paper: Restoring public sector capability through investment in public service employees

This briefing paper examines the make-up of the APS and considers recent efforts to improve APS service delivery.

By Lisa Heap

Addressing the health workforce crisis in the Pacific

Skilled health workers from Pacific Island countries are being poached to plug Australia’s shortage of care workers.

By Fiona Macdonald, Lisa Heap, Charlie Joyce

Expert report: working from home

The Centre provided expert evidence in a work from home test case in the Fair Work Commission, with Senior Researcher

By Fiona Macdonald, Lisa Heap