Andrew provides strategic advice and practical support across the full range of employment relations and human resource management issues. His work helps employers manage risk, maintain compliance and resolve workplace matters efficiently — whether through policy design, investigations, enterprise bargaining support or day-to-day advisory services.

He brings more than 40 years’ experience spanning the public and private sectors in Australia and the Pacific. Early in his career he held senior industrial relations roles in local and state government, including at Brisbane City Council and in the Queensland public sector’s central industrial relations agency. He later practised as Counsel – Employee Relations at Freehills (now Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer), with a particular focus on workplace health and safety and employment advice.

Since 2004 Andrew has practised at the private bar. Between 2011 and 2020 he also served as a Resident Magistrate in Fiji, sitting on the Employment Relations Tribunal and other specialist tribunals. That experience, together with ongoing work on Pacific labour mobility issues and training with the International Labour Organization, gives him a distinctive understanding of both Australian and Pacific employment systems.

Andrew is regularly engaged to conduct complex workplace investigations, design industrial relations management plans, and provide independent advice on employment and industrial matters. Much of this work can be delivered remotely.

He is available to assist employers with advice, representation or hands-on support in all aspects of employment relations and human resource management.

• Fair Work Commission - www.fwc.gov.au
• Fairwork Ombudsman - www.fairwork.gov.au
• AUSTLII—www.austlii.edu.au
  A legal site including legislation, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals.
• Federal Register of Legislation—www.legislation.gov.au
  Legislative repository that has replaced SCALEplus, containing Commonwealth primary legislation as well as other ancillary documents and information, and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
• Federal Court of Australia—www.fedcourt.gov.au
• Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia—http://www.fcfcoa.gov.au 
• High Court of Australia—www.hcourt.gov.au
• International Labour Organization—www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm
  Provides technical assistance primarily in the fields of vocational training and vocational rehabilitation, employment policy, labour administration, labour law and industrial relations, working conditions, management development, co-operatives, social security, labour statistics and occupational health and safety.
• Paclii - www.paclii.org  (Pacific Islands Legal Information)
• Queensland Industrial Relations Commission—www.qirc.qld.gov.au