|
||||
Thursday 5th February:
"on the border"an Exhibition of local and Refugee art - Special Opening 6.00 pmCreators Artspace - Gateway Village, Albury Wodonga |
||||
Friday 6th February |
||||
1.00 - 4.00 |
Early Bird Workshops |
The RAR Web Site
Jack H Smit, Project SafeCom Inc. |
||
|
Delivering on Trust - Working with Refugees
Assoc Prof Nicholas Procter |
||||
| 4.00 - 6.00 | Registration | |||
| 5.30 - 7.00 | Drinks | |||
| 7.00 - 8.00 | Play: "Refugitive" | written and performed by Shahin Shafaei | ||
Saturday 7th February |
||||
| 9.00 - 9.05 | Welcome | Prof. Gail Whiteford, Head of Campus CSU | ||
| 9.05 - 9.10 |
Welcome to Country
Official Opening |
Nancy Rooke
Councillor Pat Gould, Mayor of Albury |
||
| 9.10 - 9.20 | Introduction to the Conference | Dr. Penny Vine | ||
| 9.20 - 9.50 | OPENING ADDRESS | "Why It Is Important" - Fr. Frank Brennan SJ | ||
| 9.50 - 10.20 |
History of RAR - Helen McCue
RAR people on RAR: Sally Rose (Bright), Ian Skiller (Kerang), Marilyn Webster (Albury/Wodonga) |
|||
| 10.20 - 10.50 | Morning Tea | |||
| 10.50 - 11.20 | Keynote | Paris Aristotle | Nowik 1 | |
| Julian Burnside QC | Nowik 2 | |||
| 11.20 - 12.20 | Parallel workshops on themes | Working with Refugees - RAR dynamos: Bernadette Wauchope, Emma Corcoran, Jenny Bourne | ||
| How do we go about successful submissions to the RRT and other advocacy groups? - Peter Job | ||||
| Political lobbying - Marc Purcell, Catholic Commission for Justice, Development & Peace and Sarina Greco, Brotherhood of St Lawrence | ||||
| Advocacy - Kate Gauthier ChilOut (Children out of Detention) | ||||
| 12.20 - 13.00 | Plenary Feedback from Workshops | |||
| 13.00 -13.45 | LUNCH | |||
| 13.45 - 15.00 |
Policy roundtable
(Session Chair - Dr Penny Vine) |
Chair Margaret Reynolds
|
||
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Keynote | Changing the System - Cheikh Kone | Nowik 1 | |
|
Getting the Message Out
Detention, Mental health and Health Policy - Dr Louise Newman (Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists) |
Nowik 2 | |||
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Keynote | Working with Refugees - Pascale Allotey | Nowik 1 | |
| Getting message out - Karima Haroon | Nowik 2 | |||
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Afternoon Tea | |||
| 16.30 - 17.30 | Parallel workshops on themes | Visiting Detainees - Pamela Curr, Greens Spokesperson for Refugees | ||
| TPV's - Lara McKinlay, RAR National TPV Campaign | ||||
| Winning Friends for Refugees - Steve Biddulph, Author & Psychologist | ||||
| The Supporter and the Activist - Jack Smit | ||||
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Free Time | |||
| 18.30 - 20.30 | Drinks & Dinner | |||
| 20.30 - 21.30 | After dinner Reflections - tba | |||
Sunday 8th February |
||||
| 9.00 - 9.10 |
Welcome and Overview Day 2 - Saturday Workshop Reports
Chair - Bruce Haigh |
|||
| 9.10 -9.40 | Keynote |
Meeting our responsibilities
Elizabeth Reid |
Nowik 1 | |
|
Why SIEV X still matters
Tony Kevin - SIEV X whistleblower |
Nowik 2 | |||
| 9.40 - 10.10 | Keynote |
Changing the System
Morag Fraser - Editor |
Nowik 1 | |
|
Working with Refugees
David Mann - Solicitor & Migration Agent |
Nowik 2 | |||
| 10.10 - 10.40 | MORNING TEA | |||
| 10.40 - 11.45 | Parallel workshops on themes | Asylum seekers in the community - Mario Gonzales | ||
| Dealing with the Media - Tony Wright, The Bulletin | ||||
| Political Lobbying - Marc Purcell, Sarina Greco | ||||
|
Me, Myself, I and Refugees in my World
- Dr. Penny Vine & Associate Prof Nicholas Procter |
||||
| 11.45 - 12.45 | Panel discussion & plenary | |||
| 12.45 - 13.45 | RAR National Committee - Summary of issues raised | |||
| 14.00 - 14.30 | Meeting of issue groups | |||
| 14.30 - 15.15 | Plenary session - Future directions | |||
AFTERNOON TEA |
||||
END OF CONFERENCE |
||||
