Anti-Poverty Week 2022 Symposium

Anti-Poverty Week supports the Australian community to have an increased understanding of poverty and to take action collectively to end it. We are a diverse network of individuals and organisations who share this purpose. In 2022, our 20th anniversary, APW will run from 16-22 October. The halving of child poverty by 2030 is the focus of Anti-Poverty Week 2022.

Approximately three quarters of a million Australian children live in poverty. 100,000 of these in Western Australia. If all Australian children are to thrive, then child poverty needs to be significantly reduced - if not eliminated from Australian society.

About the Symposium

This half day symposium will be held during Anti-Poverty Week to explore what contributes to child poverty, its impact on the lives of children and their families, current impediments to addressing it as well as avenues for its resolution.

• Date: Monday, 17 October 2022
• Registration: 8.30am – 8.50am
• Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm
• Location: Ballroom, Government House, 13 St Georges Tce., Perth

The symposium feature a wide range of speakers and panel members including:

• Hon Dr Anne Aly MP - Minister for Early Childhood Education; Minister for Youth
• Jacqueline McGowan-Jones - Commissioner for Children and Young People
• Associate Professor Francis Mitrou - Program Head, Population Health; Telethon Kids Institute
• Adjunct Professor Tony Pietropiccolo AM - Director Centrecare Inc; Founder Valuing Children Initiative
• Glenda Kickett - Manager, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Engagement and Therapeutic Services, Aboriginal Children and Families; Australian Childhood Foundation
• Bella Burgemeister - Youth Advocate; Author; Presenter; Valuing Children Initiative Ambassador

The symposium will be open to all and those who attend will come away with:

• a fuller understanding of child poverty
• a clearer view of the reasons for the high level of child poverty in Australia;
• a realization that child poverty is not intractable;
• the practical ways it can be addressed; and
• how individually and collectively we can halve it by 2030.

The WA Committee for Anti-Poverty Week 2022 is made up of the following organisations: Anglicare WA; Centrecare Inc and Valuing Children Initiative; Commissioner for Children and Young People; Communicare; Foodbank WA; Good Sammy; Mission Australia; People Kind Group; Salvation Army; St Vincent de Paul; Uniting WA; WACOSS; Wungening

Host or Publisher Anti Poverty Week 2022 WA Committee