Issue No 30 | 10 September 1999 | |
Trades HallDeirdre Mahoney on the Social Audit Conference
Is it enough to measure wellbeing by looking at economic indicators only, while ignoring social factors? Where is the Government failing the people? And what can we do about it?
These are some of the big questions that will be raised at a social wellbeing conference to be held in Sydney later this month, in the push for a social audit. The conference, the result of a partnership between the Labor Council of NSW, the NSW Council of Social Service and the Ethnic Communities' Council of NSW, aims to bring together people from across the social spectrum to get closer to answering some of the questions which deal with our quality of life. Keynote speaker Dr Clive Hamilton, executive director of the Australia Institute, will have just returned from a UN conference in Copenhagen and will discuss papers there talking about measuring social progress and regress. He will also discuss a paper commissioned by the Institute, and released last week, analysing public perceptions of quality of life in Australia. Dr Hamilton will be followed by a panel of speakers, including Human Rights Commissioner Chris Sidoti, NSW Reconciliation Council Chairperson Linda Burney, Senior Lecturer in Humanities & Social Science at UTS, Eva Cox, and public policy consultant and former Treasury chief Percy Allan. After the panellists point out where they think we can be headed, Labor Council secretary Michael Costa, NCOSS director Gary Moore and ECC chairperson Paul Nicolau will deliver a joint plan of action. The conference, which is free and runs from 9am to 1pm on Thursday, 30 September, is to be held at the Masonic Centre in Goulburn Street, Sydney. Ring Deirdre Mahoney on 02-9286 1631 to register by 24 September.
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