2005 Media Releases
October 04, 2005
La Trobe University forum for Anti-Poverty Week
La Trobe University is supporting this year’s Anti-Poverty Week with a free lunch-time forum for staff, students and the public on Tuesday, 18 October 2005.
Guest speakers will be the National Chair of Anti-Poverty Week, Julian Disney, who will speak on ‘Fighting poverty at home and abroad’ and Indigenous educationist, Lillian Holt, whose topic is: ‘Poverty: Implication and Diminishment’.
The forum, from 1 to 2pm, will be held in the Agora Theatre on the La Trobe University main Melbourne Campus at Bundoora. It has been organised by the University’s School of Social Work and Social Policy and the Office of the Director of Indigenous Education.
Professor Julian Disney is Director of the Social Justice Project at the University of New South Wales. Formerly he has been President of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), World President of the International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW), Director of the Centre of International Law at the ANU and Chair of the National Summit on Affordable Housing.
Ms Lillian Holt is a Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has worked in the area of Indigenous education for close to forty years and has held senior positions in higher education and VET sectors. In 2004 Lillian Holt was awarded a Gandhi/King/Ikeda Peace Prize by Morehouse College in the United States for her work in peace and reconciliation.
The forum will be opened by the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Stephen Duckett.
Tuesday, 4 October 2005 La Trobe University forum for Anti-Poverty WeekFor further information:
Further information from the School of Social Work, tel: (03) 9479 2293 or the Office of Indigenous Education, tel: (03) 9479 3428.