COAT Twilight Seminar - April 2025

AGENDA

5:30pm to 6.30pm - Twilight Yarning Circle

6.30pm to 6.45pm - Annual General Meeting, COAT Victorian Chapter

6.45pm to 7.30pm - Drinks & Refreshments

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COAT Twilight Seminar 2 April 2025 - Yarning Circle and discussion : Creating culturally aware, sensitive, inclusive, and safe tribunal hearing environments for First Nations peoples

The Victorian Chapter of the Council of Australasian Tribunals ('COAT') regularly arranges and hosts Twilight Seminars and Conferences for members of state and federal tribunals (such as the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Administrative Review Tribunal, Mental Health Tribunal etc) and legal representatives that appear before those tribunals.

Our next Twilight Seminar is proposed to be a conversational, sharing of stories, in the yarning format. It will be a discussion with the attendees which will focus on initiatives to create a culturally aware, sensitive, inclusive, and safe tribunal hearing environment for First Nations peoples.

The organisers acknowledge that there are no simple answers or quick fixes. However, the Twilight Seminar is being offered to provide a forum for COAT members to discuss and gain a better understanding about what ‘cultural awareness and safety’ might mean for how tribunal members are trained and how hearings can be conducted.

OUR PANELISTS:

Kym Williams , Team Leader - Koori Support Team, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Domenico Calabro , Senior Member , Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Syd Fry, Member, Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

Jessica Gobbo , who is the Manager of the Yirramboi Murrup Unit, Coroners Aboriginal Engagement Unit, Coroners Court of Victoria.

Joseph Yugumbari. Cultural Support Advisor of the Yirramboi Murrup Unit, and who can share his experiences working in the Coroners Court supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that have had contact with the Coroner’s Court and coronial inquests.

** When you arrive at 15 William Street, please go the second block of lifts, from the William Street entrance, where a member of the COAT committee will meet you and arrange access to level 8.

Host or Publisher COAT Victorian Chapter