Hillman v Bankstown Handicapped Children's Centre Association Incorporated [2008] NSWIRComm 64

Industrial Court of New South Wales

CITATION: Hillman v Bankstown Handicapped Children's Centre Association Incorporated [2008] NSWIRComm 64

APPLICANT Jonathan Hillman

FIRST RESPONDENT Bankstown Handicapped Children's Centre Association Incorporated

PARTIES: SECOND RESPONDENT Cheryl Moore

INTERVENOR Attorney General of New South Wales and Minister for Industrial Relations

INTERVENOR Unions New South Wales

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 3534 of 2006

CORAM: Boland J President; Walton J Vice-President; Staff J

CATCHWORDS: Constitutional law - Unfair contract - Notice of motion - Threshold jurisdictional challenge - s 16(1)(d) Workplace Relations Act - Constitutional corporation - Trading corporation - Whether first respondent engaged in trading activities - Not a trading corporation - Motion dismissed

Associations Incorporation Act 1984 Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998 Commonwealth Constitution LEGISLATION CITED: Disability Services Act 1993 Higher Education Funding Act 1988 (Cth) Industrial Relations Act 1996 Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) Local Government Act 1919 Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth)

Aboriginal Legal Service v Lawrence (2007) 166 IR 248 E v Australian Red Cross Society (1991) 27 FCR 310 Garvey v Institute of General Practice Education Incorporated (2007) 165 IR 62 CASES CITED: Ku-ring-gai Co-operative Building Society (No 12) Ltd, Re (1978) 36 FLR 134 Mark Fowler v Syd-West Q2463 [1998] IRCommA 904 Quickenden v O'Connor (2001) 109 FCR 243 R v Federal Court of Australia; Ex parte WA National Football League (1979) 143 CLR 190 R v Trade Practice Tribunal and others; Ex Parte St. George County Council (1973) 130 CLR 533