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Australia’s Children and youth: who are they and what are their needs? (862KB PDF)17 November 2009

The Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre

Morning session

Stream A—Conference hall

Disability and disability services

Jane Woodruff
CEO, UnitingCare Burnside and
Director, UnitingCare Children, Young People & Family Services

Lesley Mackay
Department of Health and Human Services, Tasmanian Government

Dr Louise O'Rance
Health Performance Indicators Unit, AIHW
Disability trends - A closer look (235KB PDF) 

Stream B—Theatre

Housing and housing assistance

Carol Croce, Executive Director
Community Housing Federation of Australia
 Australia’s Welfare 2009 - Whose needs? How well met? Housing and Housing Assistance (124KB PDF) 

Peta Winzar, Housing Group Manager
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
 Housing affordability in Australia - Where have we come from? Where are we now? Where do we want to be? (274KB PDF) 

Kate Mallen,
Housing Assistance Unit, AIHW
 Housing and housing assistance (352KB PDF) 

Keynote speech

Dr Ed Sondik
Director, National Center for Health Statistics (USA)
 Keynote address (3.7MB PDF) 

Afternoon sessions

Stream A—Conference hall

Children, youth and families

Professor Alan Hayes, Director
Australian Institute of Family Studies
 The great divide? Exploring the dynamics of family and child wellbeing in Australia (884KB PDF) 

Michael Manthorpe, Director
Office of Early Childhood Education and Care, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
 National Quality Agenda (184KB PDF) 

Tim Beard
Children Youth and Families Unit, AIHW
 Australia’s Children and youth: who are they and what are their needs? (862KB PDF) 

Carers and informal care

Pam Webster, President
Carers Australia
 Social Inclusion: What Carers Need (153KB PDF) 

Julia Burns, Executive Director
Office for Women

Sharon Rose, Branch Manager
Disability and Carers Payments, FaHCSIA
 Government Services and Support for Carers (164KB PDF) 

Clara Jellie
Housing Assistance Unit, AIHW
 Carers and informal care: an overview (161KB PDF) 

Stream B—Theatre

Ageing and aged care

Greg Mundy, Chief Executive Office
Aged Care Services Australia 
 Ageing and Aged Care – The Providers Providers’ Perspective on Whose Needs, How Well Met? (699KB PDF) 

David Cullen, Assistant Secretary Policy and Evaluation, Ageing and Aged Care Division,
Department of Health and Ageing 
 Are the dynamics of residential aged care changing? (240KB PDF) 

Gail Brien
Ageing and Aged Care Unit, AIHW
 Australia's Welfare 2009 Aged Care chapter (475KB PDF) 

Homelessness

Simon Smith, Executive Officer
Homelessness Australia
 Making Them Count: Data on people experiencing homelessness (80KB PDF) 

Kate Gumley, Branch Manager
Housing Group Homelessness, FaHCSIA
 Progress report – focus on data and research (146KB PDF) 

Felicity Murdoch
Homelessness Data Collection Unit, AIHW
 Homelessness in Australia - What the data tells us (197KB PDF) 

Closing keynote speech

Professor Eric Emerson
Disability and Health Research, Lancaster University (UK)
Australian Family and Disabilities Studies Research Collaboration, University of Sydney 
 Social determinants of the health of young people with intellectual disability - Social Exclusion (& Inclusion) (& Disability) (931KB PDF)