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[From Multicultural Aged Care]

Join us for a powerful and inclusive national symposium exploring grief and bereavement through a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) lens. This event brings together practitioners, community voices, and lived experiences to reshape how we understand, support, and walk alongside grief across cultures.

Why attend?
Grief is universal, but how it is expressed, supported, and understood is deeply cultural. This symposium moves beyond theory to deliver a balanced, practice-focused experience grounded in:

• Cultural safety (not just competence)
• Trauma and grief informed care
• Equity of access and inclusion
• Respect for spiritual, religious, and community traditions
• Recognition that there is no single “right way” to grieve

Featured Speakers

• Christopher Hall, AM
  CEO, Grief Australia
• Anna Howard
  CEO, Murray Mallee Aged Care Group
• llze Radzins
  President, Latvian Association of SA
• Cecilia Chiolero
  Manager, PICAC (COTA NT)
• Dr Olivia Farrer (PhD, APD, SFAHE)
  Senior Research Fellow – CareSearch inc palliAGED, Senior Lecturer – Nutrition, Research Centre for Palliative Care, Death, and Dying (RePaDD) & College of Health and Enablement (CHE)

What to expect?

• Workforce-Focused Learning; build confidence and capability
• Person Centred Perspectives
• Family & Community Voices
• CALD Grief Experiences
• Practical Tools & Takeaways
• Networking & Collaboration

Be part of shaping the future of grief care.

This is more than a symposium, it’s a call to action to create equitable, culturally safe, and compassionate grief support for all communities.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, reflect, connect, and lead change.

23 June

10am to 1pm

Online- Free

Register: https://mac.org.au/event/mac-national-symposium-grief-management/

[From ACPA]

Advance Care Planning Australia has collaborated with Dementia Australia to release an updated joint position statement, calling for a stronger, more consistent approach to advance care planning (ACP) for people living with dementia. With an estimated 446,500 Australians living with dementia in 2026, projected to exceed one million by 2065, the statement highlights the urgency of embedding ACP across health, aged care and disability systems.

The statement emphasises the importance of starting ACP early, while people can still express their values and preferences. It promotes a rights-based, supported decision-making approach to help people retain agency, dignity and control over their future care. It also identifies key gaps, including inconsistent uptake, workforce capability challenges and limited national data.

Reflecting the lived experience of people with dementia, their families and carers, the statement reinforces that early and ongoing conversations reduce uncertainty and help ensure care aligns with what matters most.

Read the statement: https://www.advancecareplanning.org.au/news-and-events/latest-news/new-joint-position-statement-calls-for-improved-advance-care-planning-for-people-living-with-dementia

[From PCQ]

Advance care planning is more than completing documents, it is about listening, understanding culture, and creating space for conversations that respect people’s values, families, and ways of knowing

In this panel discussion webinar, join our panel of speakers Samantha McCLean, GP Palliative Care, Palliative and End of Life Services at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health (IUIH) and Andrew Doyle, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advanced Health Care Worker at Mackay Specialist Palliative Care Services as they bring together voices and experiences to explore advance care planning with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including the role of culture in care decisions, why communication and consent matter, and how services and communities can support conversations around death, dying, and grieving.

This session invites health professionals, community members, carers, and anyone interested in providing more culturally responsive and compassionate care.

Wed, 17 Jun, 12pm - 1pm AEST

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[From PSA]

[From the Department of Health Disability and Ageing]

The government is changing the End-of-Life Pathway to provide a second round of funding for participants who live beyond the initial 12-week funding period. This will help ensure continuity of care for older people and their families at a critical time. This change will commence from early 2027.

https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/aged-care-programs/end-of-life-pathway

[The PHN will share more updates as soon as they are released!]

Ready to shape the future of at-home palliative care by strengthening workforce, connecting systems, and empowering communities?

Brisbane North PHN is seeking a Lead (Palliative Care Program)

https://au.seek.com/job/92193565

Full time role based at Chermside (hybrid work arrangement with min 2day/week in the office), 12 month contract.

[via CPCRE]

Dr Claire Stokes, Professor Phillip Good and the Palliative Care Research team at Mater Health Brisbane, have developed a survey exploring palliative care health professionals' attitudes towards referring patients to clinical trials, including decentralized clinical trials. The study has been approved by the Mater Misericordiae Limited Human Research Ethics Committee (MML HREC EC00332 - Project ID: 124034).

They would appreciate you completing the attached survey. Please click on the link below to complete the survey. Contact Dr Claire Stokes for more information (claire.stokes@mater.org.au)

Here is the link: https://forms.office.com/r/nVwYFqMd7G?origin=lprLink

[from CPCRE]

CPCRE Annual Research Conference
Friday 9th October 2026
Education Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital

'Dissemination: Sharing Wisdom' is the Conference theme

A/Prof Sharon Latimer from Griffith University and Harpreet Kalsi-Smith, Founder and Managing Director of The Kindness Company will be Keynote Speakers, with further speakers announced soon.

Get your registration tickets here: CPCRE Annual Research Conference 2026.

Abstract submissions for presentations and digital posters are now open until 21st June. If you have work you would like to share, you can submit your abstract here.

[from ELLC]

End of Life Law for Clinicians (ELLC) has developed, a guide for families and substitute decision-makers on how to make health care decisions for someone else at end of life.

The idea for this arose after we received feedback from aged care health professionals about the lack of guidance for families and decision-makers when they need to make end of life decisions. We would appreciate your support to promote this resource to health professionals, so they can share it with patients, families and decision-makers where appropriate. It applies to any setting - primary, aged or acute care.

[From Palliative Nexus]

Palspective on Research Webinar: Opioids in Palliative Care: Panacea or pain in the...

Opioids to manage cancer pain is gold-standard therapy but opioid therapy has found much wider application in palliative care, for pain management in non-malignant conditions and breathlessness in cancer and non-cancer conditions. Whilst they clearly work for some, they clearly do not work as well for others, and they can cause pretty significant side-effects for many, which we sometimes poorly recognise. So where are things at with opioids in 2026?

Jun 3, 2026 04:00 PM

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