Each year in early July, VHF-UHF operators from all over Australia converge on the Gippsland campus of Monash University in Churchill, Victoria for the annual GippsTech conference. This excellent meeting is organized by a local committee under the chairmanship of Peter Freeman VK3KAI, and runs from Saturday morning until lunchtime on Sunday. The Proceedings of each conference are published, and normally available at the meeting in the following year.
Highly recommended - for details visit the VK3BEZ website:
http://www.vk3bez.org/
A major international EME conference is held every two years, in a different city each time.