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18-19 SEPTEMBER 2006

A Fair Go For All?
Policy Responses to Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Issues

Building on the successful 1st International Summer School on Inequalities and Addictions held in February 2004, the 2nd Summer School was held 18-19 September 2006.

The conference extended the focus of expert discussion and commentary beyond the concept of addiction to the continuum of drug and alcohol use and gambling.

The conference focussed on the relationship between social inequalities and drug, alcohol use and gambling. It also explored the implications for the provision of responses across the continuum of prevention, early intervention, and treatment.

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Invitation to Attend

About the Summer School

Program and Pre-Readings / Activities

Venue/Location

Registration

Speakers and Presentations

Sponsors

Accommodation/Travel

Social Program

Contact Us

Invitation to Attend

The National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA), Flinders University in conjunction with the South Australian Department of Health, the South Australian Department for Families and Communities, and Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia would like to invite you to attend the 2nd International Summer School on Inequality and Addictive Behaviours titled ‘A Fair Go For All? Policy Responses to Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Issues’ to be held in Adelaide on 18 and 19 September 2006.

Following on from the successful 1st International Summer School in 2004, this conference will focus on the relationship between social inequalities and drug, alcohol use and gambling. It will also explore the implications of different responses across the continuum of prevention, early intervention and treatment.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with your colleagues from a wide array of disciplines to discuss issues relating to inequality and alcohol, drug use and gambling. We look forward to seeing you in Adelaide for the 2nd International Summer School. The NCETA, Flinders University.

Ann Roche                                               Carmel Williams
NCETA                                                    SA Department of Health

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Who will this conference be of interest to?

This conference has been designed to cater for a range of participants; however it will be of special interest to:

• Drug, alcohol and gambling experts
• Social workers
• Psychologists
• Counsellors
• AOD treatment and prevention specialists
• Support workers in the AOD field
• Community workers
• Health policy, planning and service providers
• AOD social researchers
• Welfare workers
• Policy makers

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About the Conference

The National conference will:

• focus on the relationship between social inequalities and drug, alcohol use and gambling;
• explore the implications for the provision of health responses across the continuum of prevention, early intervention and treatment;
• identify key research questions.

The conference will complement the current South Australian health reform process and its aim of reorientating the health system to ensure an increased focus on prevention, protection and early intervention.

Background

There is growing evidence of the impact of social and economic inequalities on the health and wellbeing of populations. Recent research shows that social and economic disadvantage is strongly correlated with increased risk of problematic drug, alcohol use and gambling. To date, there has been relatively little examination of the relationship between social inequalities and the drug, alcohol and gambling fields. There is a growing need to address health and social inequalities, and recognise the workforce development efforts required to support health and other human services workers to more effectively address these social issues. In February 2004, the South Australian Department of Human Services and NCETA co-hosted the 1st International Summer School on Inequalities and Addictions.

The 1st Summer School explored the relationship between addictions and social inequalities and began to develop a framework for a more effective approach to reducing the impact of addictions on disadvantaged groups in the population. It gave participants the opportunity to consider and critique a variety of perspectives on key aspects of research and theory, debate issues arising from the presentations, and discuss the implications for an approach to funding, policy and programs to reduce the impact of addictions on population health inequalities. The 2nd Summer School will extend the focus of expert discussion and commentary beyond the concept of addiction to the continuum of drug and alcohol use and gambling. Based on the evidence of the impact of inequality on drug and alcohol use and gambling, the conference will examine the consequences of social policy, strategies and practice.

Conference Aims

The aims of the conference are to explore:

• the relationship between social inequality and drug, alcohol use and gambling;
• current policies, strategies and practice and how they impact on drug, alcohol use and gambling across different population groups;
• what do we do well, what do we need to do differently and better in terms of policy and service responses.

Anticipated Outcomes

It is anticipated that the meeting will:

• present the evidence of the impact of inequality on drug, alcohol use and gambling;
• identify interventions that successfully address the link between drug, alcohol use and gambling and social inequalities;
• enable practitioners, researchers and policy makers to reflect on their practice;
• identify key research questions;
• identify areas for further investment.

Conference Themes

Three content themes are woven through the program.

1) Cultural context and social norms
2) Social policy/political/historical context - what shapes policy development?
3) Psychological/physiological understanding of causes and drives
    (gambling, alcohol and drugs)

Conceptual themes will include:

• Theoretical
• Descriptive
• Linkages-connections
• Key principles
• Practical tips

The program will incorporate sessions that address lessons that may be learnt from the tobacco area.
The inadvertent and intended consequences of social policy will be examined.

Satellite Meeting

This conference is a satellite meeting of the International Society on Equity and Health Conference being held the previous week (11-13 September 2006) titled ‘Creating Healthy Societies through Inclusion and Equity’. For more information visit http://www.iseqh.org/

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Program

The program includes speakers from the theme areas and from each of the focus areas - gambling, drugs and alcohol.

DAY 1 – Monday 18 September 2006

DAY 2 – Tuesday 19 September 2006

For FULL PROGRAM click here (93.3 KB)

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Pre-Readings

All Summer school delegates are encouraged to go through pre-readings and pre-activities prior to attending summer school.

Below is a list of reccomended pre-Summer School readings. Please click on the reading title to download the reading of interest in pdf.

Please print off your own copies and read before attending summer school. Please contact NCETA if you have difficulties viewing them.

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Pre-Activities

Following pre-activities are suggested by Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury. Professor Sainsbury will speak at the Summer School.

1. Three Sides Of The Coin: Gambling In South Australia :

PartyPoker.com             www.partypoker.com
PokerStars.com              www.pokerstars.com

2. Watch the film titled “Mondovino” on DVD or video (at least the first 90 minutes)

Mondovino (2005)
Written and directed by: Jonathan Nossiter
Running time: 131 minutes
Starring: Michael Broadbent, Hubert de Montille, Aime Guibert, Jonathan Nossiter, Robert Parker, Michel Rolland, and Neal Rosenthal
Story outline: A documentary on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions. Nominated for Golden Palm, 2004 Cannes Film Festival

3. Visit the Exhibition

Three Sides Of The Coin: Gambling In South Australia

Migration Museum

82 Kintore Avenue

Adelaide SA 5000

Ph: 08 8207 7580

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Venue/Location

Art Gallery of South Australia
North Terrace
ADELAIDE, SA 5000

The Art Gallery of South Australia holds one of Australia’s finest art collections, housed in one of Adelaide’s most beautiful historic buildings. It is centrally located on leafy North Terrace between the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide, and has been an important cultural focus since its establishment in 1881, only forty-five years after the first European settlers arrived. This year, the Art Gallery celebrates its 125th anniversary.

For more information please visit: http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/content-programs.html

Please enter through round doors located on the left side of the main building.

Click here to view a map of the venue

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Registration

*** Registrations closed, conference date has past.

To register for this conference, please download the registration form and return to NCETA

via fax: (08) 8201 7550

or post: with your payment details to:

National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Australia

Click here to download the registration form

Full-time student concession rate is also available

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Speakers

Professor Max Abbott

Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences
Auckland University of Technology, North Shore campus

Professor Max Abbott was appointed Dean in 1991. He is also Professor of Psychology and Public Health and Co-director of the Faculty’s National Institute for Public Health and Mental Health Research.  Throughout his career he has combined management, research, professional practice and community service.

Following completion of his PhD (University of Canterbury, 1979) Professor Abbott was a community and clinical psychologist with the North Canterbury Hospital Board and established and headed the counselling service at Lincoln University. In 1981 he was appointed National Director of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand, a position he held for ten years.

Professor Abbott has served on numerous national and international organisations and advisory bodies in the health, education, justice and social welfare fields. He is Past President of the World Federation for Mental Health and currently the Federation’s Senior Advisor on Collaborating Centres. During his presidency he was co-chair of the First World Mental Health Day (1992).  He has over 200 publications in mental health, public health and applied social science.  Current research includes migrant mental health, Pacific Island health and development, problem gambling and psychiatric epidemiology.

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Professor Carol Bacchi

Professor of Politics
School of History and Politics
The University of Adelaide

Professor Carol Bacchi is Professor of Politics, School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide. She researches and writes in the area of policy theory. In Women, Policy and Politics: the construction of policy problems (Sage, 1999), she elaborates an approach to policy that highlights the importance of examining how ‘problems’ are represented in policy proposals and policy debates.

Carol currently convenes a group examining the social and economic influences on health, part of the Preventive Health Cluster initiative at the University of Adelaide. She is also a member of the Policy and Ethics group of ECSA (Ethics Centre of South Australia), and the Department of Health’s Research Policy and Coordination Advisory Committee. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

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Professor Ron Borland

Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in cancer prevention
The Cancer Council Victoria

Professor Borland is the inaugural Director of VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control (VCTC). Trained in psychology, Professor Borland has worked in tobacco control since shortly after joining the (then) Anti-Cancer Council’s Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer in 1986. He has published over 100 peer reviewed papers, most on topics in tobacco control. Professor Borland's expertise covers much of tobacco control. He has an international reputation for his work on smoking cessation and on the impact of policy changes on smokers and the evaluation of mass campaigns. His current major interests are in the development of a rational comprehensive regulatory framework for tobacco and on the development of a comprehensive program to motivate and assist in smoking cessation and on systemic barriers to progress in tobacco control.

Professor Borland has made plenary presentations at international conferences on tobacco control, including a presentation arguing for dedicated regulation of tobacco at the 11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, August 1997.

Professor Borland is an active contributor to the broader field through the Public Health Association, the Australian Cancer Society, professional societies in the area, government and semi-government committees, and through editorial advisory roles on five peer-reviewed journals that are all major dissemination sources for tobacco control. He has honorary academic appointments at Deakin University (as an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences); at Monash University, and at the University of Melbourne. He has co-supervised research students from these and other universities.

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Associate Professor Peter d’Abbs

Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
James Cook University of North Queensland

Dr Peter d’Abbs is an Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University of North Queensland (Cairns Campus), and a Director of the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation (AERF). He is a sociologist with a long-standing research background in alcohol and other substance misuse policy issues and in program evaluation. Most of this research has been conducted in northern Australia, and has involved remote and/or Indigenous settings.

Dr d'Abbs is currently engaged in several research projects designed to improve policy responses to volatile substance misuse, and is also developing an evaluation framework for chronic disease strategies in north Queensland and the Northern Territory. Prior to moving to Cairns in 2001, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin.

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Mr Richard Eckersley

Fellow

National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Australian National University

Mr Richard Eckersley is a visiting fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, Canberra. His work explores issues to do with progress and wellbeing, and whether or not life is getting better. It includes the measures of progress, the relationships between economic growth, quality of life and ecological sustainability, the social and cultural determinants of health and happiness, visions of the future, and young people and their world.

Mr Eckersley's work has been brought together in a book, 'Well & Good: Morality, meaning and happiness' (Text, 2004, 2005). He has edited three other books and has published over 100 journal papers, book chapters, monographs, and specialist magazine articles. He is a co-author of a national index of subjective wellbeing, the first of its kind in the world, and the Wellbeing Manifesto, published by the Australia Institute in 2005. He is also a member of the board of Families Australia, a peak national body representing families; a member of the ACT Government's Community Inclusion Board; and a director of Australia 21, a non-profit company established to promote interdisciplinary and cross-institutional networks on important challenges facing Australia this century.

His former positions include ministerial consultant in two Commonwealth Government portfolios, principal issue analyst in the Office of the Chief Executive of CSIRO, senior analyst with the Australian Commission for the Future, head of the CSIRO Media Liaison Office, and science reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Mr David Edwards

Manager
Quit SA

Mr David Edwards is the Manager of Quit SA and has been working in tobacco control for over 10 years. In that time he has gained a wide experience across project areas including working with young people and schools, as a Quitline advisor and with key health worker groups around the uptake of routine brief advice and support for smokers.

He has recently completed a research project exploring the implementation of smoking cessation services in community pharmacy and has led a project involving public hospitals in continuous improvement of policies and strategies that address tobacco. Mr Edwards holds a Masters in Public Health and is undertaking doctoral studies related to challenges involved in the uptake of best practice smoking cessation services in health care settings.

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Mr Toby Freeman

PhD Candidate
National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
Flinders University

Mr Toby Freeman has been working for NCETA since May 2002. He has worked on several projects at the Centre, including "Attitudes Towards Illicit Drug Users", "Hospital Alcohol Screening Systems" and "Evaluation of Training and Education". His main research interest is health professionals' responses to individuals who use alcohol and other drugs.

Mr Freeman is currently doing a PhD on the role of health professionals in preventing alcohol and tobacco-related harms, focusing on dental hygienists and nurses. He completed a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) at Flinders University in January 2001.

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Dr John Glover

Director
Public Health Information Development Unit
The University of Adelaide

Dr John Glover is Director of Public Health Information Development Unit at University of Adelaide. His work over the past two decades is at the forefront in Australia presenting data to monitor and describe social inequality and its impact on the health of population groups.

His major work in this area has been the Social Health Atlases of Australia and South Australia. The atlases are unique in providing information about the social determinants of health and health outcomes at a local, state/territory and national level, presented in ways that are useful for policy development, as well as being accessible to consumers and other community advocates who may have limited skills in handling statistical information presented in more traditional ways.

He is a member of the Australian advisory committees for the Major National Health and Social Surveys, the Technical Advisory Group on reporting trends in Indigenous mortality, the Major National Public Health Information Committee, represents the Australian Government on the Australian Early Development Index Project, and is a member of the International Society for Equity in Health (and of its nomination committee), the Australian Population Association and the Public Health Association of Australia.

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Professor Michael Gossop

Head of Research
National Addiction Centre

Professor Michael Gossop is Head of Research in the Addictions Directorate at the Maudsley Hospital in London, and a leading researcher in the National Addiction Centre at the London University Institute of Psychiatry. 

He is the founding editor of Addiction Abstracts, and his research has looked at many aspects of drug misuse treatment processes and their effectiveness. Professor Gossop's publications include more than 350 works, comprising 9 books - including Drug Addiction and Its Treatment) which was published by Oxford University Press in 2003.

In 1998, Professor Gossop was presented with the European Addiction Research Award for “outstanding contributions to the advancement of addiction research”. 

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Professor Wayne Hall

Professor of Public Health Policy

School of Population Health
University of Queensland

Professor Wayne Hall was previously Professorial Research Fellow and Director, Office of Public Policy and Ethics. He also has Professorial appointments in the Schools of Psychology and Political Science and International Relations. He was formerly Professor and Executive Director of the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of New South Wales where his research interests included the epidemiology of drug and alcohol use, the effectiveness of drug treatment, and the health effects of amphetamine, cannabis and heroin use.

He has also held appointments in the Medical Schools of Universities of Western Australia (1983-1986) and New South Wales (1986-1988) where he introduced the teaching of bioethics into the undergraduate medical curriculum. He has been Australasian Regional Editor of Addiction (since May 1999) and he has been an Adviser to the World Health Organization on the health implications of cannabis use (1993-1996), drug substitution treatment (1995), Evaluation of the Swiss Scientific Studies of Medically Prescribed Narcotics to Drug Users (1995-1996), the contribution of illicit drug use to the Global Burden of Disease (2000-2002), the ethics of risk management (2001), and neuroscience research on the addictions. He has been a Member of the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems (since May 1996).

Professor Hall is currently developing research in the policy and ethical implications of the genetics of addictive behaviour, mental disorders, and cancer.

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Professor Ronald Labonté

Canada Research Chair

Globalization/Health Equity Institute of Population Health

Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa

Professor Ronald Labonté is a Canadian Research Chair in Globalization & Health Equity, Institute of Population Health; Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, at the University of Ottawa; and Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan. 

Professor Labonté is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, a past board member of provincial and national public health associations in Canada, and a contributor to The Global Health Watch 2005/06, an ‘alternative world health report.’ His present activities include chairing the knowledge network on globalization for the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (2005-2008) and contributing to the Canadian reference group on Social Determinants of Health functioning in parallel with the Commission. 

Prior to joining academia in 1999, Professor Labonté worked 10 years as an international health promotion and public health consultant, and fifteen years with provincial and local governments and NGOs in community health development
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Ms Mary Mahoney

Cooridination - The Health Impact Assessment Research Unit
School of Health and Social Development
Deakin University

Ms Mary Mahoney is a senior lecturer at the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University focusing on the application of Health Impact Assessment in policy development.

Ms Mahoney's extensive research has focused on the intersection between policy and the health and well being of people. In 2001, whilst at Deakin University, she was awarded a Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing Public Health Education Research Program Innovations Grant to look at the application of health impact assessment to the development of healthy public policy.

Ms Mahoney explores the connection between health impact assessment and the triple bottom line concept which develops an equity focused health impact assessment framework. Ms Mahoney is currently working on research and consultancy with the Victorian Department of Human Services, Public Health Group to explore the application of health impact assessment within state and local government in Victoria.

Ms Mahoney's other research within the field of health sciences has been in small Victorian communities looking at the impact of cumulative policy changes on the health and wellbeing of residents. She has recent publications on this work in the Journal of Family Studies, Just Policy and the International Journal of Consumer Studies. This work has extended into studies on social capital, and the role of sport and physical activity in assisting rural community development.

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Ms Caroline Miller

Manager
Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation Program
The Cancer Council South Australia

Ms Miller works at the Cancer Council South Australia, where she manages the Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation Program.

Ms Miller was involved in the development and evaluation of the National Tobacco Campaign, a national quit campaign aimed at parents. Currently she is working on evaluating the social marketing campaign accompanying the graphic cigarette packet health warnings as well as the Cancer Council South Australia’s bowel cancer prevention campaign. Her other work has included: evaluating and developing standards for the Australian National Quitline Service; a research trial of Nicotine Replacement Therapy for low income smokers; and evaluating the impact of policy changes such as smoke-free legislation.

Ms Miller has a background in Psychology, Economics and Public Health and is working towards a PhD in the field of social marketing.

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Professor Ann Roche

Director
National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
Flinders University

Professor Ann Roche is Director of the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction at Flinders University. She has over twenty five years experience in the field of public health as a behavioural scientist and has worked as a researcher, educator, and policy analyst in various public health areas and has held academic posts at the University of Sydney, the University of Newcastle and the University of Queensland.

For the past  fifteen years her interests and professional activities have focused exclusively on alcohol and drug issues. Her principal area of interest is factors that optimize professional practice and effective strategies for professional practice change.

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Associate Professor Peter Sainsbury

Director
Community Health and Population Health
Sydney South West Area Health Service

A/Professor Peter Sainsbury is Director of Community Health and Director of Population Health in Sydney South West Area Health Service.  He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at Sydney University, a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council and a past president (2000-2004) of the Public Health Association of Australia.

A/Professor Peter Sainsbury’s qualifications and experience cover medicine, health planning, sociology, health services management and public health.  His professional interests include inequalities in health, social relationships and health, the experience of illness, health needs assessment, the history of public health, mental health promotion and social policy. 

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Dr Catherine Spooner

Senior Research Fellow
Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Dr Spooner has been involved in drug and alcohol planning, research and evaluation since 1986. Subjects of investigation have spanned the aetiology, nature, prevention, management and treatment of drug abuse, particularly for young people.

She has conducted intervention research with a variety of government departments (e.g. health, education, law enforcement, criminal justice) at local, state and national levels as well as with the non-government sector.

Dr Spooner's particular interest is the social and developmental determinants of drug use. She has published major reviews on this topic, the most recent in 2005: Social Determinants of Drug Use.

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Dr Alex Wodak

Director
Alcohol and Drug Service
St Vincent's Hospital

Dr Alex Wodak was the President of the International Harm Reduction Association from 1996-2004. He trained as a physician and from 1982, has been the Director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

Working with colleagues, Dr Wodak helped to establish the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, the Australian Society of HIV Medicine, and also (when these were both pre-legal) Australia's first needle syringe programme and first medically supervised injecting centre.

Dr Wodak is President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and is a member of several state and national committees. He often works in developing countries to assist efforts to control HIV infection among injecting drug users.

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Presentations

A number of presentations from the Summer School are available to download in pdf by clicking on the presentation titles below.

NB: Some graphics/images have been removed from original presentations for copyright reasons.

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Sponsors

South Australian Department of Health South Australian Department for Families and Communities Drug and Alcohol Services South Australia

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Accommodation/Travel

Pacific International Suites

55-67 Hindmarsh Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Tel:        +61 8 8412 3333 (1800 224 584)
Fax:       +61 8 8412 3344

Email: suites.adelaide@pacificinthotels.com

http://www.pacificinthotels.com/adelaide/hindmarsh.aspx

Studio Suite                   $140.00

1 Bedroom Suite             $150.00

2 Bedroom Suite             $160.00

2 Bedroom Deluxe Suite  $185.00

Quest Mansions

 21 Pulteney Street, Adelaide SA 5000

Tel:         +61 8 8232 0033

Fax:        +61 8 8223 4559

Email: questmansions@questapartments.com.au

http://www.questmansions.com.au/

1 Bedroom apartment        $114.00

Various bedding configurations are available for individual and twin share. The rate is for up to 2 guests.

Sites for alternative accommodation:

http://www.australianexplorer.com/hotels/adelaide.htm
http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/sa/adelaidearea/inneradelaide/directory/hotels
http://www.wotif.com/Australia-Adelaide-CBD-Hotels.html
http://www.hotelclub.com.au/SearchResults.asp?id=45

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Social Program

A Cocktail Reception will be held at the conference venue - the Art Gallery of South Australia -in the Atrium 5:30-7:30pm Monday 18 September.

The function is included in the price of your registration, however you will need to advise us on your registration form if you wish to attend.

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Contact Us

Tel:                      +61 8 8201 7535
Fax:                     +61 8 8201 7550
Email:                  nceta@flinders.edu.au

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