Sharing the wealth of the Lucky Country
Day 1 – March 29
Session 1
Message from ACOSS
Simon Schrapel, ACOSS President
Opening Address
The Hon. Wayne Swan – Treasurer
Message from the National Congree of Australia’s First Peoples
Jody Broun – Co-chair of the National Congress
Poverty and Inequality: How to protect our social safety net in an age of uncertainty
Professor Peter Whiteford – Acting Director, Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW
Beth Goldblatt – Visiting Fellow, Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW
Session 2 – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Keeping your head above water: inequality in living costs
Gavin Dufty – Manager of Policy & Research, St Vincent de Paul Society
Melissa Wong and Peter Saunders – Social Policy Research Cente, UNSW
Child and Family Welfare Policy: past, present & future
Terese Edwards – ACOSS Board Member and CEO, National Council for Single Mothers and their Children
Anne Hollonds – CEO, Benevolent Society
Richard Weston, CEO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation
Changing the way we work: a breifing on current reforms in the not-for-profit sector
Michael Pegg – Manager, Community Sector Industrial Relations, Jobs Australia
David Locke – Chief Adviser, ACNC Implementation Taskforce
Session 3
Tackling the challenge of rising housing costs and homelessness
The Hon Brendan O’Connor, MP – Minister for Housing and Homelessness
Greg Cash – Director, Market Innovation and Partnership, Department of Housing WA
Sarah Toohey – Campaign Manager, Australians for Affordable Housing
Judith Yates – Honorary Associate Professor, School of Economics, University of Sydney
Session 4
Young Leaders – New Direction
* Listen to interview with Lauren Jew, Giancarlo de Vera and Maia Giordano on Life Matters
Day 2 – March 30
Session 1
Including the Excluded in Australia’s Jobs Market
Paul Cain – Director of Research and Strategy, National Council on Intellectual Disability
Keynote Address
Senator the Hon Kim Carr – Minister for Human Services
Session 2 – Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Healthy Lives, Healthy Communities
Professor Diana O’Halloran – Conjoint Professor, Department of General Practice, UWS
Exploring New Frontiers in Social Service
Sue Grigg – J2SI Project Manager, Sacred Heart Mission
Chris Connolly -Researcher and Author, Visiting Fellow, UNSW
Robert Morsillo – Research Fellow, Swinburne Insititute
Session 3
Supporting Disability in to the future
Therese Sands – Executive Director, Leadership Team, People With Disability Australia
Session 4
Imagining Australia in 2030
Panelists included:
Eva Cox -Research Fellow, Jumbunna House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney;
Rebecca Huntley – Director, Ipsos Mackay Report;
Adam Bandt – Greens MP and the Federal Member for Melbourne;
George Megalogenis – Senior political journalist for The Australian;
Annabel Crabb – Political editor ABC online;
Moderator James Valentine – ABC local radio presenter, Sydney
Listen to edited version aired on ABC Radio National’s Big Ideas Program
