UPCOMING EVENTS
From selling services to collecting payments and rewarding staff, ACMA’s proposed telecommunications consumer protection rules will mean significant changes across your business.
IAA is holding a Member briefing to explain the proposals, answer questions, and collect feedback to inform our response to ACMA.
The draft Telecommunications (Consumer Protections) Industry Standard 2026 is set to replace the current TCP Code with directly enforceable requirements. Proposed changes cover:
- Critical Information Summaries and information provided to customers.
- Selling practices, sales incentives, and remedies for vulnerable consumers.
- Credit assessment thresholds and affordability checks.
- Payment flexibility and steps required before restricting, suspending, or disconnecting services.
- Staff training, senior executive accountability, and mis-selling reporting.
- Processes for appointing authorised representatives and advocates.
Now is the time to raise practical concerns about what these requirements would mean for your business. Join the discussion to help identify where the proposed Standard needs to change and what Members would need to implement it.
Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Time: 3:30–5:00 pm AEDT
Location: Online via Zoom
Attendance: IAA Members
Members can register now, through the IAA Member Portal:
We’ll send further information ahead of the session to help you prepare. Whether you already have concerns or are still getting across the proposals, your feedback will help shape IAA’s submission.
The consultation closes on 10 November 2026. Read the consultation documents on the ACMA website.
Not an IAA Member?
Access to regulatory briefings, guidance, and opportunities to contribute to our advocacy are among the benefits of membership. Find out about joining IAA.
Questions? Contact policy@internet.asn.au.
Join the local internet community at Ballers Clubhouse for an evening of social darts, networking, drinks, and tasty bites. Whether you’re a seasoned player or have never picked up a dart, all skill levels are welcome.
There’ll be friendly competition and plenty of local bragging rights on the line. Could you be crowned SA-IX’s darts champion for 2026?
Date: Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Time: 5.30pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Ballers Clubhouse, 21 Pulteney Street, Adelaide
Registrations are now open on the IAA Member Portal for our Members and their guests:
By RSVPing for this event, you agree to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
The Tournament of Peers lands at Flight Club this November, bringing WA-IX Members together for an evening of darts, drinks, tasty bites, and good company.
Gather your colleagues, sharpen your aim, and prepare to take on your fellow peers. You don’t need to throw a 180 to join the fun, but you might just walk away as WA-IX’s darts champion for 2026.
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Time: 5.30pm to 9.00pm
Venue: Flight Club, 383 Murray Street, Perth
Registrations are now open on the IAA Member Portal for our Members and their guests:
By RSVPing for this event, you agree to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
VIC-IX is stepping up to the oche for IAA’s Tournament of Peers at Flight Club this November.
Challenge your industry peers to a game, make new connections, and enjoy an evening of darts, drinks, and tasty bites. First-timer or seasoned sharpshooter, everyone is welcome to take part.
The competition may be friendly, but the bragging rights are very real. Who will claim the title of VIC-IX darts champion for 2026,
Date: Wednesday, 18 November
Time: 5.30pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Flight Club, 288 Russell Street, Melbourne
Registrations are now open on the IAA Member Portal for our Members and their guests:
By RSVPing for this event, you agree to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
We’re bringing IAA’s Tournament of Peers to NSW-IX for a night of darts and friendly rivalry at Flight Club.
Swap the network traffic for a trip to the oche and catch up with Sydney’s internet community over drinks and tasty bites. All skill levels are welcome, from complete beginners to seasoned players.
One peer will leave with the ultimate local bragging rights. Have you got what it takes to become the NSW-IX darts champion for 2026
Date: Wednesday, 25 November
Time: 5.30pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Flight Club, 135 Harrington Street, The Rocks
Registrations are now open on the IAA Member Portal for our Members and their guests:
By RSVPing for this event, you agree to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
QLD-IX is closing out IAA’s 2026 Tournament of Peers with an evening of social darts at Oche.
Come along to test your aim, connect with Brisbane’s internet community, and enjoy drinks and tasty bites. Whether you’re chasing the title or just keen for a fun night with your peers, there’s a place at the oche for you.
Who will finish on top and be crowned the QLD-IX darts champion for 2026?
Date: Tuesday, 1 December
Time: 5.30pm – 9.00pm
Venue: Oche, 111 Constance Street, Fortitude Valley
By RSVPing for this event, you agree to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
PAST EVENTS
This June NSW-IX will have been in operation for 10 years!
We invite you to join our CEO, Narelle Clark and IAA Team and Board Members as we celebrate with drinks and canapés as the sun sets over Darling Harbour.
IAA Members are welcome to invite guests. Corporate Members can register themselves and an additional 7 guests, either internal or external to their organisation. Professional Members are able to invite one additional guest. All registrations need to be completed via the IAA Portal by the inviting Member.
Details
When: Wednesday 21 June | 5.30pm – 9.00pm AEST
Where: Helm Bar & Bistro, Sydney
Register via the IAA Portal now!
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
View this presentation now on the IAA YouTube Channel.
Join us for this Online Convergent Event
Title: Can I trust my clock? Why NTP is a fail.
Date: Thursday 1 June 2023
Time: 12pm AEST/ 10am AWST
Venue: FREE Online Convergent Event, hosted on Zoom
Registration: Open to all via the IAA Portal
Register now for your chance to see Darryl Veitch’s brilliant presentation on Network Time Protocols, just how bad they can be and some new ways forward.
Professor Veitch is based at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney, and is a member of the GBDTC (Global Big Data Technology Centre) where he runs the timing laboratory.
Darryl gave this presentation at our recent Melbourne Convergent Event and has kindly offered to represent it for you at this live, online event. Registration is free and open to both IAA Members and non-members via the IAA Portal. Tell your friends and colleagues!
Member registration Non-member registration
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
Title: RPKI/ROV Tutorial & Social Adelaide, in partnership with APNIC
Date: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
Time: Tutorial 1:00pm – 5:30 ACST | Social 6:00pm ACST
Venues:
Tutorial – Barr Smith South 2032 (RM), University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, 250 North Terrace, Adelaide
Social – The Howling Owl, The Monocle room (accessed through an arch door beside the main bar on the ground level within the venue) 10 Vaughan Place, Adelaide. IAA Members are welcome to bring friends.
Cost: Hurry! The first ten IAA Members to register attend for FREE
Standard fees: $40 APNIC Member (plus GST) or $80 Standard (plus GST)
Register for tutorial Register for social
A has partnered with APNIC to bring our members this important tutorial on RPKI and ROV. The tutorial will be followed by a social event. If you’re an IAA member and can’t make the tutorial, we’d still love to see you for a drink and some nibbles, so be sure to register now.
Course outline
- Recent routing incidents
- Current BGP filtering techniques
- Resource PKI fundamentals
- Installation and configuration of RPKI validators
- BGP filtering with ROA (Route Origin Validation)
Why do we keep seeing news headlines about major networks not being reachable because traffic got rerouted to somewhere else? BGP mishaps are very common and frighteningly easy. Examples are malicious route hijacking, mis-origination (fat fingers), and bad filters (route leaks). We need better mechanism(s) to ensure no one can inject false information into the global routing system that easily. This tutorial will look at current route filtering tools/techniques, how RPKI is just a piece in the puzzle, and what we should do to secure the internet routing.
Course requirements
- This workshop is for those with a working knowledge of IP Routing (esp BGP), how to use a router command line interface and backing Linux command line skills.
- Participants are advised to bring their own laptop or desktop computers with high-speed internet access and administrative access to system.
- It is also recommended that computers have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.
- Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client, VirtualBox/VMware
- Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure. Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh rviews@route-views.routeviews.org.
Trainers
Terry Sweetser
APNIC’s Training Delivery Manager (South Asia and Oceania)
Dave Phelan
APNIC’s Senior Network Analyst / Technical Trainer
HOW TO REGISTER
Tutorial Registration (first 10 go for free).
All attendees must use their APNIC Academy account. If you don’t have an account, it’s free and easy to get your own APNIC Login. Get started APNIC’s website. Once you have your login (or if you already have an account) you can register for the tutorial from the link below.
The first ten IAA Members to register for the tutorial are FREE! To access this offer you must be an IAA Member and use this code in APIC’s payment portal: IAARPKIROA2023
Social Event Registration
We’re hosting a post-event social at The Howling Owl that’s FREE to all IAA Members, starting 6pm. Even if you can’t make the tutorial, we’d love to see you there. Corporate members can register themselves and an additional 7 guests, either internal or external to their organisation. Professional members are able to invite one additional guest. All registrations need to be completed via the IAA portal by the inviting member.
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events.
Details
Date: Tuesday 9 May 2023
Time: 5:30pm AEST Registration Opens | 6:00pm AEST Presentation | 7:00pm AEST Social
Location: Garden State Hotel | The Observatory | 101 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC
Join us for our in-person Convergent 2023 Melbourne event! We’ll hear from Dr Darryl Veitch who is set to discuss Network Time Protocol and its worthiness as a synchronisation tool for equipment and services. Garden State Hotel’s premier function space, The Observatory, will provide the backdrop as Dr Veitch details his extensive measurements, taken over many years, that demonstrate just how bad Network Time Protocol is, and proposes a new way forward.
Registrations open at 5:30pm. Enjoy complimentary beverages and canapes before Dr Veitch’s talk, taking place from 6pm to 7pm, and at the IAA social event that immediately follows.
IAA members are welcome to invite guests. Corporate members can register themselves and an additional 7 guests, either internal or external to their organisation. Professional members are able to invite one additional guest. All registrations need to be completed via the IAA portal by the inviting member.
By RSVPing for this event, you are agreeing to comply with IAA’s Code of Conduct – Events
ACCESS NOTES: The Observatory is accessible through a lift located inside the hotel’s restaurant Tippy Tay. There will be a functions bollard sign positioned outside the venue and guests will be escorted to the lift area by host.
We’re excited to announce the very first Convergent event: Malicious Domains: Where they are, and what we can do about them.
Details
Date: Wednesday 22 March 2023
Time: 9:00am AWST / 12:00pm AEDT
Location: Online via Zoom
During this event we’ll hear from DNS experts, Graeme Bunton and Rowena Schoo, from the DNS Abuse Institute and moderator, IAA CEO Narelle Clark, as they discuss the topic of malicious domains. This event is not to be missed!
Presentation slide deck available here.
Moderator
Narelle Clark, CEO, Internet Association of Australia Ltd
Narelle Clark is the Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Association of Australia, a not-for-profit telecommunications carrier operating internet exchanges across Australia and New Zealand. Ms Clark has a broad technical and strategic view of Internet scale ICT delivery having been a user, builder, operator and researcher of Internet networks through her extensive career with major telecommunications companies, research agencies and consumer bodies, as well as a leadership and governance background in the not-for-profit sector. She is an Honorary Fellow with the University of Wollongong and holds a seat on the board of the Public Interest Registry which operates the .Org top-level domain. Ms Clark was also a Trustee of the global Internet Society from 2010-2016.
Speakers
Graeme Bunton, Executive Director, DNS Abuse Institute
Graeme Bunton is the Executive Director of the DNS Abuse Institute, an initiative dedicated to developing collaborative and innovative methods of reducing DNS abuse. Graeme has over 11 years of DNS policy experience. Prior to heading the DNS Abuse Institute, he was the Head of Policy for Tucows and served as Chair of the Registrar Stakeholder Group for four years. Graeme was one of the driving forces behind the ‘Framework to Address Abuse’, a new set of guidelines and principles for addressing online harms, which was adopted by more than 50 registries and registrars. He helped found the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and served on the Board of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition for 6 years.
Rowena Schoo, Director of Programs and Policy, DNS Abuse Institute
Rowena Schoo is Director, Programs and Policy at the DNS Abuse Institute. Prior to joining the Institute, she worked for Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, Nominet UK, and the UK government at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport. Rowena has over a decade of experience in and around policy, and holds two degrees – Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (International Relations and Political Science) – from the Australian National University (ANU).