Australia's welfare 2009 conference presentations
AIHW contact details
26 Thynne Street
Fern Hill Park
Bruce ACT
GPO Box 570
Canberra ACT 2601
Tel 61 2 6244 1000
Fax 61 2 6244 1299
Web www.aihw.gov.au
A proud partner of
Tuesday 17 November 2009—Conference The Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, Crawford Street, Queanbeyan NSW 2620
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)