Final version of the Conference Program now available. Click here to download (short version).
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This year's conference will emphasise that justice is integrally about what you do and how you do it and is not achieved by the mere creating and / or enforcing of rules and regulations.
CLCs listen to their communities, learn from their experiences and support their solutions. The National Conference enables CLCs to share our skills and tactics to use the law creatively to achieve just solutions for our clients and communities.
Another conference theme is the centrality of access to justice in any effective social inclusion program. A social inclusion agenda cannot be successful unless it ensures access to justice. For socially excluded people the legal system is often unclear, frequently inaccessible and routinely unfair.
As always, the conference is a time to look around and see what we have done and appreciate how remarkable CLCs are and how resilient our communities are. The conference will operate in a climate of shared experience, stunning legal expertise, networking, talking, thinking, planning, plotting and 'just' enjoying the company of kindred spirits.
Keynote speakers for 2008 are:
Barbara Shaw from the Mount Nancy Town Camp in Alice Springs;
Maureen Colley, Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman;
Priscilla Collins, CEO, North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA);
Brendan Tobin, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies;Malarndirri McCarthy MLA, Member for Arnhem NT and Chair of the NT Statehood Steering Committee;
Joe Morrison, Executive Officer, North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA).
So we invite you and your associates to Darwin in 2008 to meet together - to 'do justice'.
