Raymond O'Dea

Raymond O'Dea was an industrial relations officer who enrolled as a PhD scholar at the Australian National University in June 1965. The title of his thesis was 'The negotiation and adjudication of secondary wages in Commonwealth Arbitration with case studies in non-manual groups'. One of the case studies was the Metropolitan Daily Newspapers Award case of 1966. O'Dea authored a number of books on arbitration and industrial relations including Industrial Relations in Australia (Sydney: West Publishing Corporation, 1965).