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Conference Streams

Conference sessions are organised into streams that reflect broad, interconnected areas of focus.

Each session is tagged with a stream to help you navigate the program and identify sessions most relevant to your interests.

Child and Family Wellbeing

Wellbeing and functioning of families and their members, including children.

  • early childhood (e.g. good practice in early childhood interventions)
  • child-parent and family relationships (e.g. transitions to parenthood, parenting practices, skills and resources, post-separation wellbeing, the role and needs of carers)
  • inclusion and social connectedness (e.g. the role of culture and community, digital and built environments, local resources and place-based supports)
  • mental health and wellbeing (e.g. mental health experiences across life stages, family experiences of natural disasters, climate change, pandemics)
  • experiences of children and young people with disabilities and their families
  • child, family and relationship services (e.g. implementation and effectiveness of universal and targeted prevention and early intervention services).

Child and Family Safety

Violence and maltreatment within families, including the experiences of children.

  • domestic, family and sexual violence (e.g. gender-based violence, child abuse and neglect, adolescent experience and use of violence, coercive control, elder abuse, systems abuse, system and service responses to those who use violence)
  • online safety (e.g. safeguarding of online spaces for young people, supports for parents to navigate and support ‘digital childhood’)
  • family law, child support, child safety and out-of-home care systems (e.g. postseparation parenting and financial arrangements, service responses to child safety concerns).

Families and Society

Family dynamics and the changing relations between families and social institutions.

  • family demography (e.g. shifting trends in fertility, cohabitation, marriage, separation and divorce, ageing families, intergenerational relationships)
  • policies affecting families, i.e. family and work (e.g. mothers’/parents’ employment, education and skills, unpaid care)
  • family and housing (e.g. housing affordability and security)
  • economic inclusion (e.g. poverty, income security and support)
  • health (e.g. service access and equity)
  • migration (e.g. settlement experiences)
  • technology and the digital environment (e.g. regulation of online environments).

Gambling Harm

Gambling harm to individuals and their families.

  • impacts of gambling on individuals, families, and communities
  • consumer protection and harm reduction measures to prevent gambling-related harms
  • convergence of gambling and monetised gaming activities
  • impacts of gambling advertising and marketing on attitudes and behaviours
  • impacts of gambling on young people, First Nations peoples, and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.