Power in partnership
Join us for two days of interactive and energising learning at Health Justice 2025 where people working across legal, health, community services, policy, research and funding come together to talk about power and change.
By working together, health, legal and social services and the communities they serve are harnessing their collective power to reimagine the ways people with complex problems access help.
Health Justice 2025 will explore what services, researchers and policy makers are doing to enable this change, and how you can get involved.
With limited places to ensure a highly participatory event, register now to secure your seat.
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What to expect
At Health Justice Australia conferences, community members and delegates from across service systems, policy and funding share their expertise and learn from each other.
We discuss the complex challenges faced by people experiencing intersecting health, legal and other problems, such as domestic and family violence, mental ill-heath and addiction, the problems that bring people into contact with child protection, poor-quality housing, fines and debt.
Sessions include opportunities for active participation, learning and sharing, as well as insights from a range of speakers about their experience of working in or living with challenges at the intersections of health and justice.
Program
Our conference program will include opportunities to listen, learn and share across three streams.
- Real-world insights: In this stream, learn directly from effective health justice partnerships about what works and why. Designed for newcomers and experienced practitioners alike, join us for sessions showcasing the building and maintenance of health justice partnerships, and celebrate the wins, insights and diversity.
- Deepening expertise: Join us for sessions where even experienced practitioners will learn something new. Explore practical, skill-based sessions, learn from outside the health and legal sectors, and participate in discussions on power in partnership.
- Change makers: Is your organisation leading the way? Are you a changemaker of the future? Join us for these forward-thinking sessions on topics including innovative funding arrangements, artificial intelligence, workforce wellbeing and maintaining hope and resilience.
Health Justice 2025 Speakers
We are excited to announce Michele Leering (PhD, CM) will be speaking at HJ25.
Michele has worked to transform legal services to be more holistic and evidence-based to respond more effectively to the multi-faced and intersecting needs of clients and marginalised communities. She believes in the power of trusted intermediaries for reaching people who need legal help, and advocates for a people-centred justice ecosystem, and researched health justice partnerships in four countries as an access to justice and health equity intervention (Measuring What Matters).
Michele’s recent doctoral study explored integrative reflective practice as an essential legal professional competency and enabler of innovation and people-centred justice. For her work on access to justice, she was inducted in 2022 as a member of the Order of Canada.
In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, the importance of robust and innovative social, health and legal services cannot be understated. Innovation is, by its nature, challenging, meaning that gatherings like this one are all the more important.
Pricing for Health Justice 2025
Register for Health Justice 2025 now to take advantage of early bird ticket pricing, which ends on 31st July.
Enjoy a 20% discount when purchasing more than one ticket. Cost barriers? Please fill in this form to register your interest in our bursary program.
Sponsorship opportunities
HJ25 sponsorship delivers the greatest impact and visibility leading up to, throughout, and following the conference. Align with HJ25 as a top-level sponsor, or create a uniquely customised HJ25 program that meets your specific goals with hands-on assistance from the Health Justice Australia team.
Previous sponsors have included Victorian Legal Aid, RMIT and the Centre for Innovative Justice, and the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. Reach out to Tess from the Health Justice Australia team at conference@healthjustice.org.au to discuss available opportunities.
Want to lend a hand at Health Justice 2025?
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.
What you’ll be doing: Offering general support at the event, with responsibilities including holding roving mics to allow audience members to participate in discussions, attending the registration desk, providing accessibility support for delegates who need it, and helping direct delegates between sessions.
What you’ll receive in return: Registration to Health Justice 2025.
How to volunteer: Email Scott at conference@healthjustice.org.au to express your interest in volunteering at Health Justice 2025.
Conference submissions
Are you interested in contributing to a break-out session at Health Justice 2025?
We’re calling for submissions for workshops, panel discussions, presentations and posters. If the work you’re doing is aligned with our program, we encourage you to submit an expression of interest.
FAQs
General
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
Stay tuned—one day tickets will be released in the coming months.
HJ25 will be in Sydney at the Aerial Function Centre, UTS, in Ultimo.
We will be able to offer discounted accommodation through our accommodation partner. More details will be available shortly.
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.
Conference submissions
Thanks for your interest in contributing to a breakout session at HJ25! Submit your EOI here.
You are more than welcome to submit one idea via the EOI submissions webpage.
If a topic doesn’t fit neatly into one stream, that’s ok! You can choose more than one stream on the Expression of Interest form.
Submissions will be used to help construct breakout sessions and the conference program. Please note, all presenters will still need to pay for registration for the conference.
Policies
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.
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.
The conference is a fantastic opportunity to really get to meet colleagues, friends, and other practitioners and professionals across both the legal profession as well as health. These events are so important because they really start the conversation around what our respective professions need in the future, and what our community needs.
Financial support
Our financial aid program has been established to ensure that people from all walks of life interested in working toward meeting complex need are heard. We want to help you join in by covering some or all of the costs of conference registration and/or any related needs (e.g. travel, carer registration and more).