THROUGH OUR EYES: NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE LEGAL NEEDS OF WOMEN IN REGIONAL, RURAL AND REMOTE AUSTRALIA' http://www.nwjc.org.au/rrr.htm 13 June 2000 - Pre-conference meeting and networks day 14-15 June 2000- Conference Albury Performing Arts and Convention Centre, Albury NSW ********************************************************************* PLEASE CIRCULATE! Notice dated 10 May 2000 ********************************************************************* 1. Invitation 2. Who should attend? 3. Speakers 4. Conference update email list and pre-conference web discussion board 5. Registration 6. Conference organising group 7. Spreading the word! 1. INVITATION The National Women's Justice Coalition and the Albury Wodonga Community Legal Centre have great pleasure in inviting you to a national conference focusing on the legal needs of the two million women living in regional, rural and remote Australia. What kinds of problems relating to the law and legal protection do women living in regional, rural or remote Australia have? Is there adequate access to legal assistance and other relevant services? What kind of assistance and services are needed? What 'works' and what doesn't! The conference will focus on these questions, showcase and debate service delivery models and bring together community workers, service providers, courts, researchers, advisers and parliamentarians. The members of the Board of the National Women's Justice Coalition and the conference organising group look forward to welcoming you to Albury, NSW for this conference. With your help this conference will lay the foundations for new emphasis, partnerships and directions at a community, regional, state and national level. Financial assistance for this conference has been provided by: Family Law and Legal Assistance Division, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department; Law Foundation of NSW; Victorian Law Foundation; Stegley Foundation; Law Society of South Australia; Northern Territory Law Society Public Purposes Trust We also acknowledge the support and assistance of the following: Country Women's Association; Law Council of Australia, Access to Justice Committee; National Association of Community Legal Centres (NACLC) and the NACLC Rural Regional & Remote Network; Australian Legal Assistance Forum; Regional Rural Women's Unit, Department of Transport and Regional Services; Centre for Rural Social Research Charles Sturt University; La Trobe University, School of Law and Legal Studies. Finally, we sincerely thank the several hundred people who took time to respond to the scoping questionnaire which was circulated in preparation for the conference. NWJC Board: Judy Harrison, Convenor; Angela Nesci, Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia; Helen Brown, Australian Feminist Law Foundation; Helen McGowan, Australian Women in Agriculture; Dominique Hogan-Doran, Australian Women Lawyers; Marg D'Arcy, National Association of Services Against Sexual Violence; Sue Pinckham, National Network of Aboriginal Women's Legal Services; Hon. Anne Levy, National Network of Women's Legal Services; Sandy Pitcher, Women's Electoral Lobby (Australia); Winsome Willow Women's Services Network (WESNET). 2. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? The conference will be of particular relevance to: * Women from rural, regional and remote Australia who have an interest in learning more about existing services, and increasing their access to these services. * Service providers (including community workers, researchers, and legal service providers) who have an interest in sharing their achievements, discussing the challenges and working towards improving service delivery to women in rural, regional and remote Australia. * Researchers and academics - from a range of institutions and disciplines (e.g. law, rural development, sociology, family studies, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies) *Government policy advisers and federal, state and local politicians - concerned to promote service availability and to respond to community needs. * Sector and representative bodies (rural, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, national NGO's, and legal professional bodies) 3. SPEAKERS Speakers will include: The Hon Daryl Williams AM QC MP, Federal Attorney General; Cathy McGowan, National President Australian Women in Agriculture (AWiA); Associate Professor Margaret Alston, Centre for Rural Social Research Charles Sturt University, Wagga; Richard Coates, Australian Legal Assistance Forum and former Chair of National Legal Aid; Deb Toker & Louise Whittaker, Qld Women's Justice Network; Margot Rawsthorne, Co-ordinator Womens Legal Resource Centre NSW; Kath McKay, Social Researcher Change unlimited; Susan Brennan, Joint national president YWCA, Womens Rights Action Network; Kate Lavender, Law Lecturer, Southern Cross University; Elizabeth McKibbin, NSW State Library, Legal Information Access Centre. There will be plenary sessions and simultaneous workshop sessions. In order to promote the broadest possible input and participation, workshops sessions will continue to be added until 5pm on the Thursday before the conference. So, you are very welcome to contact us (see contacts below) if you are interested in presenting a workshop at this conference. 4. CONFERENCE UPDATE EMAIL LIST AND PRE-CONFERENCE WEB DISCUSSION BOARD You are welcome to join the conference email list for updates about the conference http://www.nwjc.org.au/cgi-bin/emma/sub.pl?l=conference-update A web discussion board will be available shortly for pre-conference discussion and networking. Check the site at http://www.nwjc.org.au/rrr.htm The conference web site will also be updated to give information about network meetings including times and locations, which will be held on the pre-conference networks and meeting day. 5. REGISTRATION Pre Conference Networks Day (no charge, free meeting venues and assistance to arrange your meetings) Conference Full registration $300 Conference Day registration $175 (per day) Conference dinner: Wednesday 14 June 2000 7.00pm - late $40 per person The registration form can be printed or downloaded from: http://www.nwjc.org.au/rrrregistration.htm Accommodation, travel, and child care information is on the brochure and web site. Sponsored attendance The organising committee is working hard to offer a limited number of sponsored conference registrations and billets. The criteria applied to requests are: financial need, likely benefits of conference attendance to the state, region or community in which the individual resides and the likely contribution of the individual to the diversity and success of the conference. Please contact Helen McGowan (see below) if you wish to make an application. 6. CONFERRENCE ORGANISING GROUP Conference co ordinator Helen McGowan ph: 02 6021 6294 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Indigenous women's liaison officer Jane Johnson ph: 02 6036 2148 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Conference project worker Rowan O'Hagan ph 02 6033 1598 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secretariat for registrations Countrywide Conference Management PO Box 5032 ALBURY NSW 2708 ph: (02) 6040 1064 fax: (02) 6040 6164 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. SPREADING THE WORD! * Conference brochures If you have registered your interest in this conference already or are a member of the NWJC you will receive your conference brochure for this conference in the post this Friday or next Monday. If you have networks through which you would like to circulate the conference brochure please contact Helen, Rowan or Jane to arrange for bundles of brochures to be sent to you. * Linking to the conference web site If you have a web site we would be grateful if you would make a link to the conference web site. You are welcome to use the large or small '' Through Our Eyes" logo on your site with a link to the conference site * Conference listings If you maintain a listing of forthcoming conference - we request that you include information about this conference. * Republishing this email and material on the web site You are encouraged to repost this email to spread the word about the conference and you are welcome to use any material on the conference web site in newsletters or other promotions for the conference. ************************************** End of notice LL.NF -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
