NCOSS AGM 2024: Save the date!

📅  The NCOSS AGM will be held on Friday, 15 November 2024 on the part of Gadigal country now also known as Darlinghurst at Yirranma Place, 262 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst and by livestream.

🕙  Registrations will open at 9:15am for a 10:00am sharp start. Tea and coffee and light refreshments will be served.

☕  For those who can join us in-person, we’ll also be serving a light lunch after the event.

📩  Scroll down to RSVP using the link at the bottom of this page.

If you need more information about the NCOSS AGM, or have any questions, please contact NCOSS on 02 9211 2599 or email.

Guest speakers

NCOSS is excited to announce the following guest speakers at the AGM.

	Dr Rebecca Huntley is one of Australians foremost researchers on social trends.  She is the author of numerous books including How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way that Makes a Difference (Murdoch books, 2020). She writes regularly for The Monthly, Australian Traveller Magazine, The Guardian and the SMH. She is a Fellow of the Women Leadership Institute of Australia and of The Research Society. Her latest book is Sassafras: a memoir about love, loss and MDMA therapy.
	Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer from Mount Druitt. She is the general manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies including Sweatshop Women (2019) and Another Australia (2022). Winnie's debut novel is Dirt Poor Islanders (2024).
	Peter Lewis is one of Australia’s leading public campaigners with more than two decades’ experience in media, politics and communications. He is a director of Essential Media, a strategic research and communications consultancy, and is a regular columnist for Guardian Australia.

Books for sale

You can order your signed copies of Sassafras: a memoir about love, loss and MDMA therapy and Dirt Poor Islanders for collection at the AGM, or we can post them to you. Both are published by Hachette Australia and proudly supplied by Newtown’s iconic independent bookstore, Better Read Than Dead.

We also have anthologies by emerging Sweatshop writers available for order  – Sweatshop Women (volumes one and two), Povo, Another Australia, and Backlight: Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling – along with Russell Marks’ must read Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia

A limited number of all of these books will also be available to buy on the day of the AGM. They'd make great Christmas presents!

Community Compass, July 2024

Read the July 2024 research report, Community Compass: A segmentation of Australia’s views and engagement with the community sector by Dr Rebecca Huntley.