Thank you to everyone who has participated in the “Future of Advocacy” workshops so far.  We’ve had two meetings. 30 people participated in our Melbourne workshop on 26 August 2024, and 36 members joined online (18 September 2024).

We discussed hopes for advocacy in the future and ideas about what this could look like.

It was agreed that an ideal disability advocacy system should fundamentally be designed to uphold the human rights of people with disability.

Some of the themes regarding key principles needed in a future disability advocacy system that emerged from the discussions at the workshops include:

In the next stage of the process, we will hold a series of online workshops and invite members to share their thoughts on topics highlighted in the earlier workshops.

The proposed dates are as follows:

• Thursday 31 October: 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm
• Monday 4 November: 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm
• Friday 8 November: 12.00 pm – 1.00 pm
• Tuesday 12 November: 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm
• Thursday 14 November: 3.00 pm – 3.00 pm

We will follow up shortly with details of the topics for each of these focussed workshops