1994-5: Six-month secondment to Philip Morris Ltd, Moorabin, Melbourne, involving merging the Tobacco Workers Union with the Australian Workers Union and contracting out the maintenance function, thus moving from a multi-union to a one-union site;
1995: Readers' Course, Victorian Bar - Master: T.J. Ginnane (later T.J. Ginnane S.C., now Judge Ginnane, County Court);