Annual ACAP Conference 2008

Come along to the inaugural ACAP Conference 2008. The theme of this year’s conference is Counselling and Management in a contemporary context. 

Graeme Innes AM – Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights an Equal Opportunity Commission will be the Keynote speaker on the day. (see Graeme's bio below)

There will also be number of other papers discussed at the conference with topics such as Violence against men, Working in a Community Services Organisation: A Postmodern Experience, and Child Behaviour Interventions in Family Therapy Practices.

Date and location details

Date: Friday 21 November 2008

Time: 9am - 4pm

Location: Australian College of Applied Psychology, Level 5, 11 York Street, Sydney (above Wynyard Station).

The conference is open to the public and there is no fee to attend.  Please register by emailing Kate McDowell at accred@acap.edu.au

Click here to view the conference program.

Graeme Innes

Lawyer, Mediator and Company Director Graeme Innes has been a Human Rights Practitioner in NSW, WA and nationally for 25 years.

Graeme was a member of the Australian delegation to the United Nations developing a Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.

Graeme has been active in the disability field for thirty years.  He was Chair of the Disability Advisory Council of Australia for four and a half years.

He was the first blind President of Royal Blind Society of NSW, and the first Chair of Vision Australia, Australia's largest national blindness agency.  Graeme has been one of Australia's delegates to the World Blind Union, and the President of that Union's Asia-Pacific region.

Graeme has been a consultant to organisations such as Westpac, Qantas, and Sydney Water, on disability issues.

Graeme has been a Member of:

• The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal; 
• The NSW Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal; and
• The Social Security Appeals Tribunal;
• Hearing Commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.

In 1995 Graeme was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his contribution to the development of Commonwealth disability discrimination legislation. He was a finalist for Australian of the year in 2003.