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IAA End of Year Events 2025

Registrations are now open for our End of Year Events 2025!

We’re wrapping up the year with something a little different: a bowling Tournament of Peers. Held across Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide, which exchange will knock down the competition to become IAA’s bowling champions?

We invite you to an evening of tenpin bowling, good food, and great company. Whether you’re in it for the strikes or just here to give it a go, this event is for everyone. It’s all about connection and a bit of fun to close out the year.

Each event will feature casual team bowling, prizes, and scores that feed into a national leaderboard.

Bragging rights are on the line for your local IX.

Registrations now open!

Melbourne – IAA End of Year Event
Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Time: 5:30pm to 9:00pm AEDT
Venue: Strike Melbourne Central | Shop 305 | Level 3 | 211 La Trobe Street | Melbourne

Sydney – IAA End of Year Event
Date: Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Time: 5:30pm to 9:00pm AEDT
Venue: Strike Darling Harbour | King Street Wharf | 22 The Promenade | Sydney

Adelaide – IAA End of Year Event
Date: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Time: 5:30pm to 9:00pm ACDT
Venue: Strike Rundle Place | Level 1 | 77–91 Rundle Mall | Adelaide

Brisbane – IAA End of Year Event
Date: Wednesday, 3 December 2025
Time: 5:30pm to 9:00pm AEST
Venue: Strike Brisbane City | Level 1 | Wintergarden | Queen Street | Brisbane

By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.

IAA Convergent 2025 – Celebrating 30 Years of Peers!

This year’s IAA Convergent series has taken us across the country, raising a glass to 30 Years of Peers with our incredible community.

Since our last newsletter, we’ve shared gin and ping pong in Adelaide, toured a rum distillery in Sydney, sipped whisky under chandeliers in Brisbane, and indulged in bacon/whisky pairings in Perth. Each stop brought its own flavour, but the real highlight was the people. Thank you to everyone who came along to celebrate with us!

We’re already dreaming up what IAA Convergent 2026 will look like. Until then, enjoy a few snapshots from the road.

IAASysters – Onwards to Melbourne

Now, we’re turning our thoughts to Melbourne, and once again we’ve been blown away by the calibre of applicants. We look forward to seeing this year’s successful participants in September!

Interested in sponsoring this powerful initiative?

Shout out to our current sponsors, who help make this event possible:

IAA’s CEO, Narelle Clark, wins CommsDay Award

In case you missed it, Narelle Clark was recently inducted into the CommsDay Hall of Fame during a special ceremony at the CommsDay Summit, held in Sydney this June.

Surrounded by industry peers in the grand ballroom of the historic Fullerton Hotel, Narelle was recognised for her outstanding contributions to Australia’s internet and telecommunications sector.

With a career spanning more than 30 years across policy, infrastructure, research, advocacy, and leadership, she has played a key role in shaping the digital landscape, championing consumer rights, and advancing critical network infrastructure.

As CEO of the Internet Association of Australia, she continues to be a passionate and effective voice for a fairer, trustworthy, and resilient internet. A huge congratulations to Narelle on this well-earned recognition!

Advocacy Corner: May – August 2025

Parliament has resumed following the recent federal election, and we hold our breath for what the returning government has in store for the telco sector. Consultations have already started to ramp up again after a brief lull during the caretaker period. We are hopeful that ambitious reforms being undertaken by the Treasury into Australia’s overall economy will bring about improvements to the policy settings that dictate telco investment and operations. You can read more in our submission below.

A number of new regulatory obligations kicked off in late June and early July such as the DFSV Standard, and new complaints handling processes. IAA has made legal templates available on the IAA Member Portal as well as an explainer article to help you understand your obligations so make sure to check these out!

We are also working on organising to consult on behalf of Members to develop DFSV policy and training material, and will update Members when we have more details. In the meantime, you can read more about the new DFSV Standard in this article.

In September, IAA will be hosting a joint-panel session with auDA on ‘Multistakeholder ways to improve trust in Australia’s digital ecosystem’ at the auIGF 2025. The auIGF is a great event that facilitates multistakeholder discussions on policy issues related to the internet in Australia, and globally. We highly recommend you to register and check out the full program. The event will be in Adelaide from 23-24 September, but you can also attend virtually. We will also provide more details about our session shortly, so stay tuned.

As always, please get in touch to share any thoughts on any of the open consultations below and/or previous submissions as we really appreciate your feedback.