[dbaust] may be of interest
- From: "Trudy Ryall" <trudy.ryall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <sarujac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Meredith Prain" <Meredith.Prain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <Carla.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <m1stevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <hjlawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:24:34 +1000
Daring to be Different 2012
Disability - Breaking Down the Barriers
Keynote speaker: Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO, Chair of the UN Committee
on the Rights of the Disabled Person, will be joined by a panel of speakers
from across the disability sector.
The evening will be facilitated by Lynne Haultain, former ABC broadcaster.
This will be an interactive forum where audience participation is welcome in
the panel discussion.
Panel speakers include:
· Emeritus Professor Ronald C McCallum AO was the foundation Blake Dawson
Waldron Professor in Industrial Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of
Sydney. Ron is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full
professorship in any field at any university in Australia or New Zealand.
Professor McCallum is Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities. In early 2003, the Australian Government awarded
Professor McCallum a Centenary Medal for his role as a labour law scholar and
for his role as a disabled citizen in our nation. In the 2006 Queen's Birthday
honours list Professor McCallum received the designation of Officer in the
Order of Australia for his services to tertiary education, for industrial
relations advice to governments, for assistance to visually impaired persons
and for social justice. In 2011 Professor McCallum was named Senior Australian
of the Year in 2011. Ron is married to Professor Mary Crock and they have one
daughter and two sons.
· Neal Murphy is Director of Mission at St John of God Accord. Neal is
currently rolling out a disability and inclusion plan for St John of God Health
Care and has extensive experience as a service provider.
· Moira Byrne Garton is the parent of four children including a daughter with
severe physical and intellectual disabilities. Moira is a regular contributor
to Eureka Street and has contributed to territory and federal government
disability reviews. Now living in Canberra, during the last decade Moira has
worked as a sessional academic while undertaking PhD studies in political
science at the Australian National University. She continues to work part-time
as a policy analyst.
· James O'Brien is the Victorian and Tasmanian State Coordinator of Every
Australian Counts a campaign pressing for the introduction of the National
Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). James says the NDIS will help ensure that
people with disabilities, their families and carers get a decent level of care
and support. It represents a chance for Australia to right a major historical
wrong - that being the way people with disabilities, their families and carers
have been left behind.
· Milly Parker is a campaigner for the NDIS. She has an acquired brain injury
following a car accident nearly twenty years ago. Milly sees herself as "lucky"
because she has had access to the best medical and rehabilitation care through
the Victorian Transport Accident Commission. She believes that her life would
be very different if she had fallen off a roof, been a victim of domestic
violence but had the same injuries. Milly says: Every Australian that is born
with or acquires a disability deserves the same chance to reach their life
potential just as I have done.
When:
Thursday 16 August 2012, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Where:
Elldon Hogan Performing Arts Centre, Xavier College, Kew
Register:
Download a registration form from: http://www.trybooking.com/BQZQ
Cost:
$20 Adults | $10 Concession | $50 Family
For more information, contact Jo Dunin, Xavier Social Justice Network on phone
9815 4528 or email jo.dunin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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