SACOSS Staff
Campaign
Launch Participants
Conference
speakers
SACOSS
staff
Karen
Grogan, Executive Director
Jennifer
Duncan, Deputy Director
Malcolm
Downes, Senior Project Officer
Shane
Dinnison, Policy Officer
Rosalyn
Williams, Policy Officer
Celia
Brissenden, Communications Officer
Campaign Launch
Simon
Schrapel, SACOSS
Chair, opened the Campaign launch event on Friday 18 March.
Julian
Disney, National
Chair, AntiPoverty Week, gave a national context.
Deborah
Carey launched the
campaign with her own personal story of disadvantage, and offered some
suggestions on how things could change. View the text of Deborah’s speech
here.
Michael
O’Brien MP, Member
for Napier, introduced the first event of the Campaign, a debate on the topic
“Anyone Can Get a Job in South Australia”.
The
debaters
Affirmative
Vickie
Chapman MP, Shadow Minister for Employment, Training & Further Education
Rex Jory, Senior Journalist, The Advertiser
Peter Vaughan, CEO, Business SA
Negative
Janet
Giles, State Secretary, SA Unions
The Hon Kate Reynolds, Australian Democrats spokesperson, Member of the
Legislative Council
David Rigney, Senior Advocate, Disability Advocacy and Complaints Service
Debating SA
chaired
and adjudicated the debate.