Challenging Ageism: What is it and what would Australia look like without it?
in collaboration with the EveryAGE Counts Campaign
When: Thursday 13 June 2019
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Where: National Press Club, Canberra
Ageism is discrimination against our future selves. It can affect every one of us. Ageism can be found in attitudes or beliefs, in behaviours, or even formalised policy and practices. Yet often it is misunderstood and goes unseen in the policy development processes and unchallenged in private or public behaviour and discussions.
How do we identify ageism, what drives it and what impact does it cause? What are the ‘opportunity costs’ of ageism and its impact on public policy and the economy? How can we best respond to ageism in our private and professional lives?
The 2019 COTA Australia Policy Forum in conjunction with the EveryAGE Counts Campaign will bring together older Australians, academics, regulators and public policy makers to explore the intersection between ageism and public policy in Australia. Together we will identify a future vision for an Australia without ageism.
EVENTBRITE REGISTRATION – All ticket sales close on Wednesday 5 June 2019 at 11:59PM AEST.
Tickets are available on Eventbrite with a reduced price for COTA individual members and COTA organisational members. Please call your state COTA to enquire about membership.
Tickets: https://npf2019.eventbrite.com.au
General Admission: $315
COTA Individual Member: $135
COTA Organisational Member: $235
National Policy Forum Program – FINAL
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Download Program: Challenging Ageism National Policy Forum Program FINAL
Facilitator: Caroline Baum
| 9:15 – 9:30 | Facilitator Welcome: Caroline Baum Welcome to Country: Violet Sheridan |
| Welcome from COTA Australia: Ian Yates AM, Chief Executive, COTA Australia | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Keynote: Ageism faced by older people and what drives it |
| Kirsty Nowlan, Executive Director, The Benevolent Society and Co-Chair, EveryAGE Counts | |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Ageism and employment |
| Facilitated by Caroline Baum | |
| Peter Woolcott AO, Australian Public Service Commissioner Kate Carnell, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman | |
| Mike Rungie, Committee Member, EveryAGE Counts Campaign | |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Morning Tea |
| 11:10 – 11:40 | Keynote: The economic impact of ageism |
| Emma Dawson, Executive Director, Per Capita | |
| 11:40 – 12:10 | Imagery and imagination – older people in the media and public discourse |
| Facilitated by Caroline Baum | |
| Jenny Taylor, Director, Market Research Unit, Department of Health | |
| Fiona Jolly, CEO, Ad Standards Australia | |
| 12.10 – 1.10 | Lunch |
| Opportunity to take the pledge to stand for a world without ageism | |
| 1:10 – 1:55 | Responding to ageism – what’s public policy got to do with it? |
| Facilitated by Sue McGrath, Senior Policy Advisor, EveryAGE Counts Campaign | |
| Kathryn Greiner AO, NSW Retirement Village Ambassador and Chair of the NSW Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing. | |
| Emma Dawson, Executive Director, Per Capita | |
| 1:55 – 2:40 | What lessons on anti-ageism can be learnt from diverse communities and other campaigns for social change? |
| Facilitated by: Corey Irlam, COTA Australia | |
| Tom Calma, Chancellor, University of Canberra | |
| Daniel Coase, Policy and Project Officer, Federation of Ethnic Communities Council | |
| Kirsten Deane, Campaign Director, Every Australian Counts Campaign | |
| 2:40 – 2:55 | Afternoon Tea |
| 2:55 – 3:35 | Ageism in Aged Care and Health Care |
| Proposition: Ian Yates AM, CE, COTA Australia | |
| Respondent 1: Patricia Sparrow, CEO, Aged and Community Services Australia | |
| Respondent 2: Leanne Wells, CEO, Consumers Health Forum | |
| 3:35 – 4:15 | Moving towards an Australia without ageism |
| Anne Burgess, Board member, COTA South Australia | |
| John McCallum, CEO, National Seniors Australia | |
| Marlene Krasovitsky, Director, EveryAGE Counts Campaign |
| 4:15 – 4:30 | Concluding remarks: Caroline Baum |
| 4:30 – 4:40 | Closing Thanks: Ian Yates AM, COTA Australia |