Conference theme

Our 2025 conference theme, The Law and More, celebrates our sector’s place within and commitment to community justice movements that improves people’s lives. Delivering a range of integrated services and wraparound supports, our teams – of lawyers, social workers, financial counsellors, advocates, community engagement and policy professionals – work with people and communities as they untangle the messy and interconnected legal, social and economic problems that impact wellbeing.

Our approach reflects the community legal sector’s history as a grassroots movement of people determined to address the personal and systemic injustices faced by their communities – through prevention, support to resolve immediate problems and advocacy for systems reform. It also reflects our understanding that people and communities with lived experiences of injustice are experts in their own lives and know what will work best to solve the problems they face.

While tried and tested, this approach is ever evolving, as centres across the country explore new approaches and look for more effective interventions that can meet the unique challenges of our times.

From 2 to 5 September 2025, on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra, we will explore the critical emerging social justice issues facing people, communities and community legal centres in 2025 and beyond.