2013
eBulletin
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Events
National Carers Week 2013
National Carers Week 2013 took place between 13-19 October 2013 with ‘Be care aware' as the theme. Many events were held across NSW to celebrate and acknowledge carers, including Carers Day Out on Tuesday 15 October at Martin Place, Sydney.
Biennial Conference 2013
The Carers NSW Biennial Conference brings together health professionals, disability and other service providers, government representatives and employers, and provides an opportunity to explore practice and ideas, research and initiatives in carer support.
The Carers NSW Biennial Conference 2013 was entitled Caring, Working, Living and was held at the Novotel, Sydney Brighton Beach on Thursday 14 and Friday 15 March.
The focus of the conference for 2013 was around the themes of:
- Caring: increasing opportunities for carers to exercise informed choices and to negotiate the shifting policy landscape
- Working: achieving workplace arrangements that work for working carers
- Living: sustaining carers' own health and wellbeing in a caring context.
Media releases
For all media enquiries, please contact the Communications Team on commsteam@carersnsw.org.au or 02 9280 4744.
- Carers NSW Tamworth Carers Masterclass (391.6 KB)
- Join Carers NSW for the Tamworth Carers Masterclass (312.1 KB)
- Program to give young carers of someone with a mental illness something to smile about (263.4 KB)
- Join Carers NSW for an evening with The Sunnyboy (310.6 KB)
- Ask a carer R U OK (72.6 KB)
- Carers NSW welcomes report on the Review of the NSW Mental Health Act (165.4 KB)
- Carers NSW launches together program (165.5 KB)
- Getting the right NDIS for carers and the people they care for (165.1 KB)
- Celebrating senior carers during NSW Seniors Week 2013 (166.2 KB)
- National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) debate (166.6 KB)
- Carers NSW 2013 Biennial Conference (168.9 KB)
- Carers NSW congratulates 2013 NSW Seniors Week Ambassadors (166.4 KB)
- Carers NSW officially opens new office (163.7 KB)
- Widespread reform needed to support carers in the workplace (60.0 KB)
- High profile speakers are set to attend Carers NSW Biennial Conference (97.8 KB)
- Carers encouraged to have their say on the NDIS (95.6 KB)
Policy papers and submissions
Our policy team works in a variety of ways to represent carers. We make written submissions and reports, attend meetings and forums, work in partnership with governments and other agencies, provide advice to a range of stakeholders, conduct research to raise the profile of carers within the sector and more broadly.
Our key publicly available written submissions from 2013 are available below.
President's Editorials
The former President of Carers NSW, Laraine Toms, wrote in the Carers NSW newsletter, Carers News, about a range of carer related issues, including diverse themes such as the concept of resilience, the development of carer recognition policy, and many others.
- October-November 2013 (233.8 KB)
- August-September 2013 (206.4 KB)
- June-July 2013 (96.2 KB)
- February-March 2013 (483.7 KB)
- December-January 2013 (80.1 KB)