National Community Legal Centres Conference 2025
Registrations are now open!
The Law and More will run from Tuesday 2 September to lunchtime on Friday 5 September 2025. Kambri at ANU (the Australian National University) on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra will be the main venue for most events, including the main conference program.
As part of the wider event schedule, there will be face-to-face National Network meetings on Tuesday 2 September and four half-day masterclasses in the morning of Wednesday 3 September. We will also offer two local walking tours and a First Nations basket weaving workshop.
Once again there will be two social events, with a Welcome Reception in the evening of Wednesday 3 September and a Conference Dinner on Thursday 4 September, which will be held in the Gandell Atrium at the National Museum of Australia.
Once you have registered for National Conference 2025, you can return to the registration portal at any time to update your registration and purchase tickets to masterclasses and social and other events.
If you have any questions about the registration process, please email our conference organiser, Think Business Events, clca@thinkbusinessevents.com.au.
See our registration page for pricing information.
Key dates for the diary
- Subsidy applications close: 30 June
- Early-bird registration and ticket sales close: 11 July
- Final program released: June/July
- Standard registration and ticket sales open: 12 July
- Standard registration closes: 29 August
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.
