National Community Legal Centres Conference 2025

The 2025 National Community Legal Centres Conference has now ended

National Conference 2025 was held from Tuesday 2 September to Friday 5 September 2025. at Kambri at ANU (the Australian National University) and other venues on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra.

Face-to-face National Network meetings ran on Tuesday 2 September and four half-day masterclasses were held in the morning of Wednesday 3 September. The wider program included local walking tours, a First Nations basket weaving workshop, a Welcome Reception and a Conference Dinner in the Gandel Atrium at the National Museum of Australia.

Community Legal Centres Australia would like to express its deep gratitude to the Conference Advisory Group, and to all conference speakers, presenters, sponsors and delegates for helping to deliver a successful conference.

Slide presentations from conference sessions and poster presentations will be available on the User Portal once presenters have given permission to make them available.

Justice Louise Taylor, Justice of the ACT Supreme Court

Arlia Fleming, Chair CLCs Australia; CEO Central Tablelands and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre

Tim Leach, CEO, CLCs Australia

Rosslyn Monro, Executive Director Community Legal Centres Queensland

Blake Cansdale, President Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation

Keryn Ruska, Legal Services Manager Institute of Urban Indigenous Health

Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony by Selina Walker and Justin Reid on behalf of United Ngunnawal Elders Council

Antoinette Lattouf, journalist and podcaster

Sammy Cooper, Sector Sustainability Coordinator Community Legal Centres Queensland (left)

Zachary Armytage, Aboriginal Legal Access Program Coordinator Community Legal Centres NSW

Zoe Daniel, journalist, former independent member of Federal Parliament

Erin O’Dwyer, journalist, author and editor

Felicia Djamirze, First Nations woman, author of Accessory, CEO Neuro Vitality and Trauma Recovery Network