Better Together

Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9.  

Allies are invited to ask 5 LGBT people aged over 60 about their experiences as same-sex attracted and/or transgender people.

If you’ve ever had questions about the LGBT community or what it’s like to be gay, lesbian or transgender but too afraid to ask or not known who to ask, the LGBTI Connect team will be hosting a “You Can(‘t) Ask That” style panel session. Allies are invited to submit their anonymous, respectful questions at the ECH stall.

Facilitator: Robyn Lierton (Community Engagement and Diversity Manager, ECH).  

Speakers: Stephanie Russell LGBTI Connector, ECH), Marg Beagley, Bill Gaston (ECH), Barry Horwood (ECH), Pam PRice (ECH) 

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9.  

This session will highlight stereotypes, stigma, discrimination, law, and many cultural barriers faced by LGBTIQA+ sex workers, all of which lead to poor health outcomes, sub-standard or non existent industrial rights, and human rights abuses. This session will put forward the reasons why sex workers worldwide demand the decriminalisation of the Sex Industry. 
  
Speakers: Heather Eckermann (SIN) 

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9. 

Using a piece of art showcased at the United Nations, this presentation talks to Australia’s First Peoples living with disability who identify as LGBTIQ+ community members, and the intersectionality between these. Talking to the impact that the introduction of western religion and colonisation has had on the First Nations LGBTIQ+ community, we pose the question of LGBTIQ+ people being accepted as part of the rich and diverse social structure of First Peoples culture  and communities for thousands of years, prior to the introduction of western beliefs and perceptions. 

Speakers: Uncle Paul Calcott, Kelly Treloar

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9.  

A group of diverse prominent members of the First Nations/Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ communities nationally will discuss a variety of topics from identity, engagement, acceptance, representation and research.

The group will explore ways to highlight their contribution to issues that matter and how their participation in overall LGBTIQA+ discussions affect them and their communities.

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9. 

Join a diverse panel of Christian activists, both LBGTIQ+ and Allies, as they explore why and how the progressive church movement should be involved in campaigning for LGBTIQ+ rights in Australia.

Facilitator: Anthony Castle.  

Speakers: Rosalie Dow (Community Pastor, Activate Community), Nicole Mugford (Uniting Church leader), Brad Chilcott (ED of White Ribbon Australia) and Sue Wickham (Minister in Placement at Trinity Uniting Church) 

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9.  

Opening Plenary PART 2

Welcome to Country and “50 Years of Visibility”

Welcome to Country by Robert Taylor (Kuma Kaaru Cultural Services)

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9.  

Opening Plenary PART 1

Welcome to Country and “50 Years of Visibility”

Welcome to Country by Robert Taylor (Kuma Kaaru Cultural Services)

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded live at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9. 

Hear from an expert sex worker leadership panel from around Australia as they showcase collective sex workers’ leadership, highlight the failures of criminalisation and licensing in VIC, SA & QLD, and the benefits of decriminalisation for the rights of all sex workers, and offer a window into the urgent ongoing struggle for full decriminalisation and the recent sucesses of the sex workers rights movement.

Facilitator: Dylan O’Hara (Coordinator for Vixen Collective).  

Speakers: Heather Eckermann (SIN), Lulu Holiday, Ari, Leanne Melling

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9. 

Join Professor Martin Holt (UNSW) as he presents the findings of the 2020 Adelaide Gay Community Periodic Survey. 

Speakers: Skye Bartlett, Martin Holt

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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Welcome to the 2021 Better Together Conference Podcast. Recorded at the Adelaide Convention Centre on the 18th and 19th of June, 2021. These sessions were proudly recorded and produced by JOY 94.9.  

LGBTI Connect provides culturally safe access, navigation, advocacy and connection to aged care services for LGBTI community members in South Australia. You’re invited to meet the LGBTI Connect team and discover this ground-breaking service that is run BY older member of the LGBTI community, FOR the LGBTI community.

Co-created with members from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) communities, ECH LGBTI Connect provides culturally safe access, navigation, advocacy and connection to aged care services for and from LGBTI community members in South Australia. The ECH LGBTI Connect Team comprises five older members of the LGBTI community with a deep appreciation of the fears, concerns and challenges older members of the LGBTI community face as they age. You’re invited to meet the LGBTI Connect team and discover what makes this a ground-breaking service that is run BY community, FOR community. 

Facilitator: Robyn Lierton.  

Speakers: Stephanie Russell (LGBTI Connector, ECH), Pam Price (ECH), Marg Beagley and Bill Gason (ECH) 

To listen back to other sessions from the Better Together Conference, visit: https://joy.org.au/bettertogether/  

For more information on future Better Together Conferences, please visit: https://www.theequalityproject.org.au/ 

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