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Perspectives on Poverty Conference
NSW Teachers' Federation Auditorium, Sydney
17 October 2007

Poverty Fact Sheet [144kb pdf download]

Keynote Address

Social Work: From Detection to Advocacy [78kb pdf download]
Mark Peel, Professor of History, Monash University

Session One: Poverty and Place

Poverty and Place: The Pursuit of a Fair and Just Society: Presentation [127kb .pdf download]
Poverty and Place: The Pursuit of a Fair and Just Society: Paper [41kb .pdf download]
Denise Shearer, Community Services Manager, Hume City Council
Poverty and scarcity in a time of abundance: Or why we feel that we cannot share the ‘love’ [29kb .pdf download]
Dr James Arvanitakis, University of Western Sydney
'Unmaking’ Poor Places?: Presentation [146kb .pdf download]
Leaving Minto report [1mb .pdf download]
The Bonnyrigg Living Communities Baseline Survey report [4.2mb .pdf download]
Dr Judith Stubbs, Principal, Judith Stubbs and Associates

Session Two: Poverty and the Working Poor:

Working Poverty in Australia, 2005-06 [111kb .pdf download]
Alicia Payne, Senior Research Officer, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra

Why do we have working poor? Why is the problem increasing? [90kb .pdf download]
Louise Tarrant, National Secretary, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union

The fight for a living wage and a fair deal for Cleaners [7kb .pdf download]
Lu Liu, Member Organiser, CleanStart Campaign

I owe, I owe, so off to work I go: the rise and rise of consumer debt [998kb .pdf download]
Karen Cox, Coordinator, Consumer Credit Legal Centre

Session Three: Poverty and Rights

Can rights solve issues of poverty? [36kb .pdf download]
Graeme Innes, Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

Paper not available
Nicole Watson, Senior Researcher, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS

We buy food if there is money [96kb .pdf download]
Faye Southcombe, Community Dietician, NSW Refugee Health Service

Sydney Street Choir
The Sydney Street Choir performed several songs to finish up the conference. For more information on the Choir please visit their website.

Download: Choir performance slide show [1.2mb .pdf]

The NCOSS Perspectives on Poverty Conference was proudly sponsored by:

Gilbert + Tobin NSW Department of Education and Training
Fair Trading - Dept of Commerce

Members Equity Bank

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