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<font size="5" face="Arial"><strong>Don’t miss out! Register now for the <font color="#ff8000">
FECCA 2013 Conference</font><font color="#ff8000">, </font>Australia’s pre-eminent multicultural conference!</strong></font></p>
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<p></font><font size="2" face="Arial">Over a packed two days of the 2013 FECCA Conference, we invite you to join us for deep discussion and deliberation focussed on identifying the barriers currently facing members of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)
communities in Australia.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Together, let’s develop a solid national agenda to identify and address the challenges facing social policy and multiculturalism in Australia.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">The conference program boasts an outstanding line-up of speakers, including senior government ministers, opposition spokespersons and leaders from the community, government and business sectors.
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<p><font size="2" face="Arial">The FECCA 2013 Conference program is packed with a full agenda of presentations and discussions around key issues, including aged care, rural and regional settlement, health, employment and more!</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><strong><font color="#ff8040"><font color="#ff8000">Aged Care (7 November, 2pm)</font><br>
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</font></strong>Join us on day one of the Conference to hear leading commentators discuss issues concerning CALD Australians around aged care. Presenters include Marion Lau and Fiona York of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria, Agnieszka Chudecka of
Multicultural Aged Care Inc., Alexis Hughes of DutchCare Ltd, Kelly McDougall of the University of Adelaide and Yvonne Santalucia from Bankstown Area Multicultural Network. The session with be led by past Chair of the Ethnic Communities’ Council of NSW, Emanuel
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<p><font size="2"><font face="Arial"><strong><font color="#ff8040"><font color="#ff8000">Rural and regional settlement (7 November, 2pm)<br>
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</font></strong>Also on day one, an expert panel will deliberate over key issues concerning CALD Australians with regard to rural and regional settlement. The session will include presentations from Mitra Khakbaz and Sebastian Ross-Hagebaum of the Multicultural
Development Association, Gail Slocombe of the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland, Lisa Toh of the Queensland Council for Social Services, Dr Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe of La Trobe University, Chris Hazelman of the Ethnic Council of Shepparton and Nitesh Raj
Pant of the Multicultural Council of the Northern Territory. The session will be led by Chair of FECCA’s Regional Advisory Committee, Ricardo Viana.<br>
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<font face="Arial"><font color="#ff8000">Health (7 November, 3:50pm)</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">On the afternoon of day one, a line-up of key commentators will discuss health issues concerning CALD Australians. Presenters will include Janny Goris of the Queensland Department of Health, Clara Tait, of the Asthma Foundation SA, Odette
Tewfik of Family Planning QLD and Tara Henderson of the Heart Foundation. The session will be chaired by Director of Systems and Strategy, Gold Coast Medicare Local, Libby Carr.<br>
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<strong><font color="#ff8040"><font face="Arial"><font color="#ff8000">Barriers to employment (8 November, 11am)<br>
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</font></font></strong></font><font size="2"><font face="Arial">On day two, a line-up of leading commentators will discuss barriers to employment facing CALD Australians. Speakers will include President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Ged Kearney,
AMES CEO, Catherine Scarth, and Board Member of the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpretors, Abeselom Nega. The session will be led by FECCA Senior D eputy Chair, Dr Sundram Sivamalai.<br>
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</font><span style="font-size:18pt; font-family:'Arial','sans-serif'; color:#ff9900"></font><font size="4"><font color="#ff8040"><font color="#ff8000">For more details and full information about presenters and sessions scheduled for the 2013 FECCA Conference,
please </font><span class="style3"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:'Arial','sans-serif'; color:black"><a title="" href="http://www.fecca2013.com/program/" target="_blank" style="color:blue; text-decoration:underline"><span style="font:4px 'Verdana','sans-serif'"><font size="4" face="Arial">click
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<p><span style="font-size:18pt; font-family:'Arial','sans-serif'; color:#ff9900"><font color="#ff8040" size="4"><font color="#ff8000">To view the Conference program, please</font>
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click here</a></font></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:18pt; font-family:'Arial','sans-serif'; color:#ff9900"><font color="#ff8040" size="4"><font color="#ff8000">For concurrent breakout session abstracts, please</font>
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<p dir="ltr" align="left"><font size="2" face="Arial">The <strong>conference dinner</strong> on
</font></span><span lang="EN"><font size="2" face="Arial">Thursday 7 November at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre<span lang="">
</span>is filling up fast, so book your ticket for this fabulous evening soon before you miss out. 2013 Young Australian of the Year, Mr Akram Azimi, will be joining us as a guest speaker on the night. He'll be followed by Brisbane band, Izalco, who will be aiming to
get you dancing to the infectious rhythms of their Latin American-infused music.</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" align="left"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN-AU"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><font face="Arial"><font size="2">Tickets to the conference dinner are not included in the registration fee.
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<p dir="ltr" align="left"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN-AU"><font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><strong>Ticket prices:</strong> Full registration $110 | Concession $95</font></font></span></p>
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