Health Justice 2025 national conference

Early risers win! Doors are open and the coffee is brewing. Get in early, grab your pass, and settle in for a day of discovery.

The Power of Authentic Engagement  

What does it take to listen – really listen – to the voices of people with lived and living experience? What is it that systems change requires of us, and where are our blind spots? In this keynote with internationally renowned speaker, Liz Weaver, learn more about what it takes to navigate our fears and power challenges. Hear more about how authentic engagement seeks to break down the power imbalances in community, and can open us to a future of deep learning and impact.

More information to come soon.

Choose from one of four workshops designed to spark conversations and deep dive into your selected topic:

1. Workshop 1: You’ve got the power!
#Inclusion #Practice

In this workshop, we explore the conference theme, power in partnership. We’ll discuss how power shows up in our work and the ways we currently think about it – and, crucially, how we use it. What does it take to let go of power?

2. Workshop 2: The CollabLab
#Foundations #Practice

Join the ‘CollabLab’, designed for health and social service workers, lawyers, and those working on the front line. Whether you’re brand new to health justice partnership or have been working this way for a few years, this practical workshop will will draw on peer expertise to explore what it actually takes to collaborate across services and with people with lived experience.

3. Workshop 3: How to build organisation-wide partnership culture
#Management #Leadership

Embedding the principles of partnership across an organisation can have benefits well beyond partnering with other services. This session will explore the potential impact of this way of working, as well as sharing tips and tricks for implementation and opportunities for the future.

4. Workshop 4: The secret sauce of health justice partnership?
#DeepDives #Research

We’re so excited to share results from our research in this workshop, which is designed for those experienced in health justice partnership. We’ll explore a research study by Health Justice Australia to understand more about what health justice partnership can achieve, how it achieves those outcomes, and the impact of health justice partnership on those working in health and legal services. 

Enjoy a long lunch at the University of Technology Sydney, and take the opportunity to chat with friends and colleagues. We’ve left you plenty of time to grab a feed, check your emails and devour the brain food on offer.

Your choice of breakout sessions, taking the concepts and insights we discussed in workshops through to their real-world applications.

1. Breakout 1: Lessons and strategies from the front line
#WomensSafety #CaseStudy

Hear real-world lessons, insights and strategies from current health justice partnerships. You’ll leave this session feeling energised and inspired to keep going on your partnership journey.

2. Breakout 2: How to build and maintain an effective partnership
#Practice #CaseStudy

This breakout session has it all. Deep wisdom from 10 years of practice. Expertise from the mental health, and alcohol and other drug sectors. Examples of allyship and partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. And advice for how to manage professional boundaries when you’re working together.

3. Breakout 3: Health justice partnership for children and families
#EarlyIntervention #CaseStudy

What happens in your childhood can follow you for the rest of your life. The earlier we can make a difference for children and families living with adversity, the bigger a difference it will make for our whole society. So what does it look like when we support the intersecting needs of children and families? Hear directly from health justice partnerships doing just this.

4. Breakout 4: A practical approach to evaluation
#DeepDive

Learn how to determine the effectiveness and impact of your health justice partnership in this breakout session designed for those interested in research and evaluation. Leave this breakout session with confidence in your next steps and approach to evaluation for your health justice partnership.

Take a quick break, grab a snack, and re-charge before the final conference hours of the afternoon.

In our final plenary for Day 1, we explore complexity from a new perspective.

Day One is done. Grab a drink and exchange ideas with friends, colleagues and peers. This is a wonderful opportunity to connect with people you’ve heard from and met during the conference – don’t miss out!

Health Justice Australia CEO, Sheree Limbrick, takes to the stage to kick us off for Day 2 of the conference.

More information to come soon.

Writing your Impact Story  

In this exciting workshop, all conference registrants will engage together and with international guest speaker, Liz Weaver. Liz will introduce how to craft your impact story using two frameworks: the water of systems change and the collaboration impact story. 

We often miss the essential ingredients in writing our impact stories including how people, process, and resources were essential components of impact. During the workshop, we’ll talk more about these essential ingredients as we develop, write, and share the first draft of our impact stories.   

Enjoy a long lunch at the University of Technology Sydney, and take the opportunity to chat with friends and colleagues. We’ve left you plenty of time to grab a feed, check your emails and devour the brain food on offer.

Is your organisation leading the way? What does the future of partnership look like? Choose from one of four forward-thinking breakout sessions below.

1. Breakout 1: Working towards health and justice equity

This session will explore how people experience the intersections of health and justice, and what questions this raises about power, stigma, access, exclusion and human rights.

2. Breakout 2: Training and education for systems change
#Managers #Leaders

More information to come.

3. Breakout 3: Policy, funding and health justice partnership
#PolicyMakers #Government

What are the power dynamics that influence the policy and funding environment, and how do these actors respond to, learn from, and build upon innovation? This session will discuss opportunities to contribute to health and social policy reform and funding initiatives to better support collaborative ways of working.

4. Breakout 4: Organisational leadership for workforce wellbeing

More information to come.

Take a quick break, grab a snack, and re-charge before the final conference hours of the afternoon.

You’ll want to make sure you stay for these closing sessions. We’ll hear from a panel of lived expertise activists and advocates who will share their collective hope, and talk about resilience in uncertain times. More information to come.

Health Justice Australia CEO, Sheree Limbrick, takes to the stage to close things out for 2025.

Absolutely not!

If you work in health justice partnership, great! This conference is definitely for you.

If you don’t, but you’re interested in how services can work better together to address unmet need, this conference is also for you! You might be grappling with some of the same challenges as those currently working in partnership, you might be interested in how policy environments and funding impact this kind of work, you might be interested in the data that sits behind these kinds of innovations, or you might be a member of a community looking for solutions to the problems you’re facing.

Still not sure if it’s for you? Get in touch at conference@healthjustice.com.au 

We’re pleased to share that we have single day tickets available! Head over to registration checkout to purchase yours now.

HJ25 will be in Sydney at the Aerial Function Centre, UTS, in Ultimo.

We’re proud to be partnered with Four Points by Sheraton, offering HJ25 delegates reduced pricing for accommodation from 3 – 4 December. Instructions for access to the offer are provided in your order confirmation email.

Yes! We encourage students to attend. To do so, you can either purchase in individual registration or consider volunteering at the event to receive free registration.

Volunteers are an integral part of the team at our national conferences. We’re always looking for people interested in donating some of their time to help make this event a wonderful experience for all our delegates.

Email Scott at conference@healthjustice.org.au to express your interest in volunteering at Health Justice 2025.

Yes. Reach out to conference@healthjustice.org.au and we’ll get this organised for you.

We’re pleased to offer the following cancellation and refund policy:

• Cancellations up to 30 days before conference incur a $150 administration fee.
• Cancellations between 29 and 14 days before conference receive 50% refund.
• Cancellations less than 14 days will not be refunded.

Absolutely. You can transfer your registration ticket to another name up until 4 business days before the conference at no cost. Reach out to events@healthjustice.org.au to request the transfer.

Unfortunately, tickets cannot be shared between multiple people. However, we do have single day tickets available for those who are available to only attend one day of the conference.

Health Justice 2025 aims to be a fully accessible conference. You will be able to provide your accessibility needs during the registration process. We encourage you to be as detailed as possible. Your registration information will be treated with confidence and respect.

Do you need assistance in registering? Please email us at conference@healthjustice.org.au to arrange an assisted registration session.

Health Justice Australia also offers a partial to full bursary program for participants where cost is a barrier to participation in Health Justice 2025. Please contact us at conference@healthjustice.org.au to find more.