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Confirmed speakers include:

	Professor Larissa Behrendt, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney Prof. Larissa Behrendt is Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. Larissa is a Land Commissioner on the Land and Environment Court and the Alternate Chair of the Serious Offenders Review Board. She has published on property law, indigenous rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women's issues. Her book, Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future was published by The Federation Press in 2003. She won the 2002 David Uniapon Award and a 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for her novel Home. Larissa is a Board Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art and a Director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Chair of National Indigenous Television.
	Dr Maggie Brady, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University Maggie Brady is an experienced social anthropologist and has undertaken long-term fieldwork on health and land issues in the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. She researched the diet and lifestyle of Aboriginal people in the vicinity of the Maralinga atomic test sites in preparation for, and following, the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia (1985). She has worked on alcohol misuse and other substance abuse such as petrol sniffing since the late 1970s. In 1998 Maggie published an award-winning book of community development strategies for managing alcohol problems —The Grog Book which was revised in 2005 . Her ongoing research interests include health and alcohol policy and practice, primary health care and alcohol intervention, and indigenous controls over alcohol supply.
	Associate Professor Judy Cashmore, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. Judy Cashmore is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. She has a PhD in developmental psychology, a Masters in Education, and considerable research experience in relation to children’s involvement in legal proceedings and other processes in which decisions are made about children’s care and protection, residence, contact, and guardianship. She is Adjunct Professor and Chair of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University. She has also been involved with a range of government and non-government committees, including the NSW Judicial Commission.
	Professor Arie Freiberg, Faculty of Law, Monash University Arie Freiberg was appointed as Dean of the Faculty Law at Monash University in January 2004. Prior to taking up this position, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2003. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Criminology at the University of Melbourne in January 1991 where he served as Head of the Department of Criminology between January 1992 and June 2002.
	Mr Laurie Glanfield, Director General, NSW Attorney General’s Department Laurie Glanfield is the Director General of the New South Wales Attorney General’s Department. He is also the Chair of the Criminology Research Council and Deputy President of AIJA. He has been on the Board of Management of both the National Coronial Information System and the National Criminal Court Statistics Unit for many years. Laurie has been the Secretary of the Standing Committee of Attorneys General since 1988. He has a strong interest in evidence based policy in the justice system and social justice areas.
	Associate Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty, School of Psychology, UNSW Research Areas: Legal decision making, expert evidence, psychology of negotiation and dispute resolution, managing consumer complaints, jury behaviour, women and the law, sexual harassment and other equal opportunity practices, workplace violence.
	Professor Peter Grabosky, Australian National University Peter Grabosky holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and has written extensively on criminal justice and public policy. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia , and was the 2006 winner of the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology for contributions to comparative and international criminology. Over the course of his career, he has held a number of visiting appointments, including Russell Sage Fellow in Law and Social Science at Yale Law School (1976-78); Visiting Professor, Institute of Comparative Law in Japan, Chuo University (1993); the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) (1995; 1998) and the Chinese People's Public Security University (1996; 2006).
	Associate Professor Russell Hogg, School of Law, University of New England Russell Hogg is an associate professor in the School of Law. He was formerly reader in law at the Australian National University. He is widely published in the fields of criminology and criminal justice studies. Most recently he co-authored (with Professor Kerry Carrington) Policing the Rural Crisis (Federation Press, 2006). He has been a chief investigator on four Australian Research Council Discovery Grants, the most recent of which is on terrorism. Much of his research has been concerned with crime and social change in rural communities in New South Wales. From 1996-2000 he served as a non-ministerial member of the NSW Crime Prevention Council, chaired by the NSW Premier.
	Professor Ross Homel, AO, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University Ross Homel is Foundation Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and Director of the University’s Strategic Research Program for Social Change and Wellbeing, a virtual network of over 200 academic staff in the social and behavioural sciences. Professor Homel’s accomplishments were recognised in January 2008 when he was appointed an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia (AO) “for service to education, particularly in the field of criminology, through research into the causes of crime, early intervention and prevention methods.” In May 2008 he was recognized with an award from the Premier of Queensland as a ‘Queensland Great’, “for his contribution to Queensland’s reputation for research excellence, the development of social policy and justice reform and helping Queensland’s disadvantaged communities.’ He has held senior research management positions within Griffith University since 1993 including as Director of the highly successful Australian Research Council Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance until October 2007. He was responsible for establishing a national set of research priorities to advance the wellbeing of children and young people and setting up a new Australian Research Council research network, while undertaking a half time role with the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth in 2003 and 2004. Between 1994 and 1999 he was a part time Commissioner for the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission. He is a Board member for the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Academy Executive, and has won numerous awards for his research on the prevention of crime, violence and injuries.
	Associate Professor Boyd Hunter, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU Boyd Hunter is a Senior Fellow at The Australian National University and is one of the few economists working on Indigenous Policy in Australia. He specialises in labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research and coordinated the first longitudinal analysis of Indigenous job seekers for the Department of Workplace Relations and Small Business. An important element of that project was to document the dynamics of Indigenous disadvantage within the labour market. He also conducts research into how high rates of Indigenous arrest effects Indigenous employment, education and welfare over the longer-term. He has published extensively in a diverse range of journals spanning across many social science disciplines. Boyd is a joint editor of the journal, the Australian Journal of Labour Economics. He also has experience in both public administration, having worked at the former Department of Social Security and the Department of Industrial Relations. During his sometimes misspent youth he was full-time Chair of the ANU Union Board for one term when he gained some experience managing that large commercial organisation".
	Associate Professor Andrew Leigh, Australian National University Andrew Leigh is an associate professor in the Economics Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His current research is in the fields of labour economics, public finance and the economics of elections. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, and has previously worked as a lawyer, a political adviser, and a think-tank researcher. He has published over thirty journal articles and two books, is a regular columnist for the Australian Financial Review, and writes a semi-daily weblog. In 2006, he received an Early Career Award from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia".
	Professor Paul Mazerolle, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice & Governance, Griffith University Professor Paul Mazerolle is Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Goverance and the Violence Research and Prevention program at Griffith University. Paul is also the current editor of the Australia and New Zealand Journal of Criminology. Paul's research expertise include understanding dimensions of criminal careers and crime across the lifecourse. This area of research includes a focus on violence research, and on understanding the processes that shape continuity and change in offending and victimisation. His current research examines the consequences of violent victimisation for criminal offending careers, the linkages between criminal offending and subsequent involvement in intimate partner violence, pathways to repeat victimisation, and effective justice response to intimate partner violence. Paul is currently involved in two large Australian Research Council funded research projects, other locally funded research, as well as the international observatory of justice responses to domestic violence.
	Professor Tony Vinson, University of Sydney Professor Tony Vinson's initial qualifications were in Arts and Social Work and he subsequently obtained a doctorate from the University of New South Wales for a sociological thesis entitled "Social factors associated with the occurrence of low birth weight." His professional career has alternated between academic appointments and government and community positions. He has held professorial appointments in Behavioural Science in Medicine at the University of Newcastle and Social Work at the University of NSW and has held visiting professorships in Sweden and Holland. In the early 1970s, he was Foundation Director of the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research within the NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice. From 1979 to 1981 he headed the NSW Department of Corrective Services during a period of intense reform following a Royal Commission into the state's prison system. With assistance from the Victorian Department of Communities and the NSW Premier’s Department Professor Vinson has completed studies of the geographic distribution of social disadvantage designed, among other things, to monitor the impact of community level interventions instigated by his research. In 2007 he published a national study of the distribution of disadvantage (Dropping off the Edge) which has attracted interest from community practitioners. In 1984 Tony Vinson chaired a Commonwealth Government Inquiry into the Health and Social Services of the Australian Capital Territory. In 2001 he was invited to chair a year long Independent Inquiry into Public Education in NSW, a contribution that resulted in his receiving an inaugural NSW Government Award for Meritorious Services to Public Education. A recent audit confirmed that as many as two-thirds of the 85 recommendations made by the Inquiry have drawn a positive response from the State Government. In 2003 he was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Sydney University and in 2008 he was awarded membership of the General Division of the Order of Australia.
	Ross Gittins, Economics Editor, Sydney Morning Herald Ross Gittins is the Economics Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald and an economic columnist for The Age. He celebrated 30th years as the Herald's economics editor in 2008. Before joining the Herald, Ross worked as an auditor with the national chartered accounting firm, Touche Ross & Co. In 1993 he won the Citibank Pan Asia award for excellence in financial journalism. Ross has been a Nuffield press fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a journalist-in-residence at the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne. Ross is frequently called upon to comment on the economic issues of the day and has written and contributed to many books and periodicals.