1. Institute hosts Conference.
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Rosenbrock, Catherine
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CONFERENCES & conventions , *FAMILY studies - Abstract
The article highlights the 1998 Sixth Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference "Changing Families, Challenging Futures," held in Melbourne, Victoria on November 25-29, 1998. The conference attracted more than 450 delegates and over 150 papers were presented across the three days. The presiding member of the Institute's Board of Management, Dame Margaret Guileful, welcomed Senator the Jocelyn Newman, Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the status of women, who opened the conference. It was the Minister's first opportunity to meet with the Institute's Board, having assumed responsibility for the Institute after the federal election in October. The conference theme, changing Families, Challenging Futures, was introduced in the opening session by Keynote speaker Richard Eckersley, a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. After several conferences in which developmental issues dominated the children and young people stream, this conference focused more on policy and programs.
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- 1998