The Strengthening Disability Advocacy Conference was held at NAB The Hall on Monday 2 September 2019. The theme was Advocacy Under Pressure which focussed in on national systems effecting the work of advocacy right across Australia.
Session videos include:
- Welcome
Wayne Herbert and Welcome to Country - Telling it how it is
Melbourne Playback Theatre Company - State of Play
Minister Luke Donnellan MP, Mary Mallett from Disability Advocacy Network Australia (DANA) and Melanie Muir from Disability Advocacy Victoria (DAV) - Welfare Self Serve: Empowering people with disabilities to help themselves
Kerri Cassidy from Disability Resource Centre and Gillian Wilks from Social Security Rights Victoria - Plain talking from the top
Rick Morton interviews Vicki Rundle, Acting CEO, National Disability Insurance Agency and Graeme Head, Commissioner of NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission. - It’s a royal to-doo: What can we expect?
Facilitated by: Leah van Poppel from Women with Disabilities Victoria with panelists Gerard Brody from Consumer Action Law Centre, Kristy McKellar, Family Violence Advocate and Dr Meg Clement-Couzner from People with Disabilities Australia - Getting it right: Decisions that make a real difference
Facilitated by Ang Horton from AMIDA with panelists Dr Darren O’Donovan, Director of Engagement La Trobe Law School and Tim Noonan from Victorian Legal Aid
The following day included an extra program of associated events. The morning session was a workshop addressing burnout and was exclusive to advocates working within funded disability advocacy organisations. The workshop resource is password protected. Advocacy organisations should contact DARU for information on how to access it.
The afternoon forum was put together by the Victorian Disability Advocacy Network (VicDAN).
- Defending Participants Rights -Navigating the NDIS
Includes a keynote address from Dr Bruce Bonyhady and panel sessions investigating different aspects of the NDIS from a legal and rights perspective.
Additional media:
- Ba Hung’s Story
DARU’s very own Gogglebox episode - Real Zone
Music video collection for SDAC19
- Author:
- DARU
- Date published:
- Mon 2nd Sep, 2019