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Cocktail party to honour the late Jennifer David. Speakers for the evening include:
Accepting the award for Jennifer is Allysoun Boyle.
Due to an oversight we have not been compliant with the requirements of the Department of Fair Trading for changing our Constitution. The Department of Fair Trading only has a copy of our constitution from 2003 and considers that version to be the only valid constitution. They were inadvertently not informed of the change to the end of financial year date from 30 September to 30 June which occurred at the Annual General meeting in 2009.
The end of NADRAC as an advisory body of the Federal Government presents a significant marker for ADR in Australia and beyond.
Together with invaluable research and development work, NADRAC provided an important line of communication to government. New and influential lines of communication are needed to all tiers of government: federal, state and local.
Invitation to all members and the Board and Committee members.
All welcome!
Agenda and last meeting minintes in News
In 2013 Bianca delved into a common problem faced by new mediators: The “mighty gap” between training and experiential development. She cast the net wide to invite as much feedback as possible and presented the topic at LEADR’s Kon-gres in Sydney.
Everyone. at some stage in life is going to need a substitute decision maker. For most of us, this might be as minor as giving a friend a general power of attorney to manage the household bills while being away on a remote holiday or ensuring there is someone to give consent to medical treatment or to be contacted in an emergency.
The Family Law environment is, as we know, fraught with highly distressed parents and their children. Separated parents will often complain of a system that seems unconcerned and oblivious to their private, internal traumas, which can lead them to consider the dire possibility of suicide.
More high rise apartments and town house complexes means more people closer together, and that's a recipe for conflict. Mediation has a role here, but is the process and the outcomes of any real value to those concerned.
David Rollinson trained and began mediating in 1983 with Community Justice Centres. His mediation and facilitation experience includes couple and family, neighbour and community, planning and development and strata living disputes. David has been a conciliator of health complaints and was the 'mediating registrar' at the NSW Land and Environment Court in the late 1990s.