PROGRAM

Acknowledgement of Country & Conference Opening:

• Acknowledgement of Country - Aunty Glendra Stubbs

• Conference Introduction - Carl Rhodes, Dean UTS Business School

• Video Welcome Address - The Hon Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia

• Address - Senator the Hon Jenny McAllister, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy and Senator for NSW introduced by Amy Persson, Interim Pro Vice-Chancellor (Social Justice and Inclusion), Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, University of Technology Sydney

The Elsie Story

Opening Address: Journey to Justice with Christine Robinson, CEO Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre

Morning Tea

The History of Multicultural Services for Women in Need

Conversation

Convenor: Maha Abdo OAM, CEO Muslim Women Australia. 

Panel:

• Maria Dimopoulos AM

• Yasmin Khan, The Bangle Foundation

The First Ten Years: Memory, Myth and Milestones

What were the goals and the important issues for the first feminist refuges? A group of women active in the first years of three refuges discuss what mattered to them and if these same goals and issues are relevant today. This discussion will be continued in an open discussion workshop on Saturday.

Convenor: Ludo McFerran

Panel:

Vivien Johnson, Marrickville Womens Refuge

Di Otto, Half Way House, Victoria

Bobbie Townsend, Elsie Women’s Refuge

Music Performance:

OUTLOUD – Respect Program

Featuring Condell Park Public School

Lunch Break

Running a Refuge Today

Panel discussion among today's generation of refuge managers, with audience Q&A. Lessons learnt from the past and challenges for the future.

Convenor: Delia Donovan, CEO Domestic Violence NSW

Panel:

• Janet Jukes OAM, Refuge Victoria

• Julie Oberin AM, Annie North Women's Refuge

• Leanne Barron, Starick

• Sunila Kotwal, Immigrant Women’s SpeakOut Association 

Interlude - Commemoration of women killed by domestic violence

Break

Keynote event: Expert Panel with audience Q&A

How has violence changed since 1974? Is it better or worse? How are we responding to coercive control and the newer, non-physical forms of violence such as financial abuse and technology-enabled abuse? 

Moderator: Virginia Haussegger 

Expert Panel: 

• Dame Quentin Bryce; 

• Assistant Commissioner Family Violence Command (Victoria) Lauren Callaway; 

• Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commissioner Micaela Cronin; 

• Author Jess Hill;

• CEO Djirra Antoinette Braybrook AM; 

• eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant;

Break

Conference Dinner- with special guest Ray Martin AM