Heidi Yates
Heidi Yates is a strategic legal mind and distinguished executive with two decades of frontline leadership advancing justice for marginalised communities. As the ACT Victims of Crime Commissioner (2018–2025), she drove groundbreaking reform and brought stakeholders together to deliver transformative initiatives, including the ACT Charter of Rights for Victims of Crime, the Witness Intermediary Program and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program. Heidi is now turning her hand to strategic consultancy projects, partnering with organisations to advance equity and systems reform.
Heidi’s unwavering commitment to justice, advocacy for survivors and trailblazing leadership have been recognised through numerous honours, including the 2025 Australian Award for Excellence in Women’s Leadership (ACT), 2022 ANU Alumna of the Year, 2022 ACT Woman Lawyer of the Year and being selected as an ACT finalist in the 2023 Australian of the Year Awards.
Power in Partnership
Join us for two days of interactive and energising learning at Health Justice 2025.
Hear from international and local speakers on how power shows up in our work, and what it takes to power authentic engagement. Discover the latest in research, join the CollabLab, and find hope in energising conversations about how we can change our systems for a better future.
Date: 3 & 4 December, 2025
Location: University of Technology Sydney
Whether you’re working in legal, health, community services, government, policy, research or funding, you’ll find plenty of sessions to get inspired by at Health Justice 2025. With limited places to ensure a highly participatory event, get your tickets now and secure your seat.
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.
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.
