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🌟 Registration opening soon!

🌟 Join us at the 2025 Advocacy in Action Conference on             

       June 16-17th 2025

       9.00 am to 4.30 pm at

       Novotel Hotel Function Centre, (formerly Rydges Bell City) 215 Bell St. Preston

🚀 Dive into key issues impacting advocacy services and people with disability. Panel on the huge Changes to the NDIS.  

     Pressures on Advocacy Services such as:

  • parents with disability in the Child Protection System
  • people with intellectual disability in the justice system
  • fear and confusion about the changes to the NDIS
  • lack of funding for advocacy services 

💪✨ Don’t miss this chance to connect, learn, and advocate in a time of rapid change!

Let’s make our voices heard together!

Download Keynote speaker flyer

Registration Information 

  • Catering: lunch, morning and afternoon teas are provided
  • Please advise of dietary requirements when you register
  • Concession registration fees are available to people who have Pension Concession Cards or an Health Care Cards
  • Early Bird registration fee is only available before the 20th of May 2025
  • Support workers do not pay a registration fee, only a catering fee of $40 per day.
  • To be eligible for Support Worker catering fee the worker or family member needs to providing direct care, supervision, and support, without which the participant with disability wouldn’t be able to attend
  • Parking is available in the Novotel carpark during conference hours as part of your registration fee.

Registration Costs 

 

Public Transport 

  • You can take the Number 86 tram to 45 Bell St/Plenty Road Preston, which is a 5-minute walk to the hotel. 
  • Bell Station is the closest train station, a 10-minute walk from the Novotel hotel, or Preston Station is a 17-minute walk.
  • Buses like 251, 513, 514, 552, and 553 also stop near the Novotel. 

For More Information 

 Contact Christine on Mob:     0475 698 884  
                                        Email:  [email protected]
 
or VALID Office Phone:  (03) 9416 4003
                               Email:  [email protected]


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