Upholding rights, preventing abuse and promoting autonomy: AGAC conference

Upholding rights, preventing abuse and promoting autonomy: AGAC conference

Join a raft of high-profile Australian speakers, and speakers from Canada, Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore, at the Australian Guardianship and Administration Council (AGAC) national conference at Canberra’s Hyatt Hotel on 14-15 March 2019.

At a time of unprecedented change in the adult safeguarding environment, the conference will present new thinking on topics including:

• NDIS – although the most significant social welfare reform since the Medicare, it is also accompanied by new safeguarding arrangements and ‘consumer choice’ challenges for many people with disability.
• Elder abuse – hear more about the Commonwealth’s national elder abuse plan and other reform initiatives.
• Guardianship and health care decision-making.
• Human rights – developments in this field are seeing us recalibrate our protective laws, with ground-breaking changes in the field of supported decision-making.
• Planning ahead – the impact, strengths and weaknesses of enduring instruments.

The program includes keynote addresses from:

• Gordon Ramsay MLA, ACT Attorney-General
• the Honourable Kaye Patterson AO, National Age Discrimination Commissioner
• Alistair McEwin, National Disability Discrimination Commissioner
• Alan Cameron AO, Chairperson, NSW Law Reform Commission
• the Honourable John Watkins AO, CEO, Alzheimer’s Australia.

One and two-day registrations are available. Single day registration is $420. Two-day registration is $680 and includes the conference welcome drinks on Thursday evening.