Speeches

Criminalising Illness? Mental Illness and the Prison System.
Presented on the 18th August 2005 for the
The Queensland Alliance of Mental Health & Psychiatric Disability Groups

What is Possible?
Prisoners Legal Service 20th Anniversary
10th August 2005

Australian Community Idol Finalist Speech
6th June 2005

Women in Voice – Women with Voice
James Cook University Speech

Betrayal: Well Intentioned
Youth Conference 2003

Additional Presentations given by Debbie Kilroy:

October 2009
Pathway's to Safer Communities, Transforming Corrections Forum Tasmanian Department of Justice.

September 2009
Is Prison Obsolete Conference, Sisters Inside Conference, Brisbane.

June 2009
Prison Reform in the World, 4th Conference of International CURE United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

July 2009
Prison Advocacy, State Legal Educators Conference, Queensland Law Society Brisbane.

December 2008
Criminalised Women, Brisbane International Feminist Conference, Brisbane

December 2008
Women in Prison, 2008 Women in Corrections Conference, Tasmania

October 2008
Women Prisoners and Discrimination, Queensland Shelter Conference, Brisbane

September 2008
The Impact of Prison, and the Case for Change in Correctional Facilities, Community Sectors Future Conference, ACT Council of Social Services Inc, Canberra

June 2008
The Great Debate: Neighbourhoods are Dead and the Individual Now Reigns Supreme (the case "against"), Communities in Control Conference, Our Communities Inc, Moonee Valley.

December 2007
Young Women being Excluded from the Education System, Youth Affairs Network of Queensland Annual General Meeting, Brisbane.

September 2007
Locking Them Up to Keep Them "Safe", Juvenile Justice Act Review - Community Forum, Brisbane.
September 2007 Violence Against Aboriginal Women, North Queensland Domestic & Family Violence Conference, Mt Isa.

August 2007
Women, Criminalisation and Housing: Problems and Solutions, United Nations Forum on Housing, Brisbane.

August 2007
Panel Member, Faculty of Law 30th Anniversary Cocktail Evening, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

June 2007
Sisters Inside, Women and Disability, Disabled Justice Forum, Brisbane.

May 2007
Confining Femininity: Women and Imprisonment, Lecture, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.

April 2007
Living Inside a Prison Cell: Mental Health Problems in Prison, From Cell 2 Soul Conference of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, Gold Coast.

May 2007
Violence, Criminalisation and Aboriginal Women, Breaking the Chain: Reclaiming Our Future Conference, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research 4th Indigenous Family Violence Prevention Forum, Mackay.

February 2007
Dinner Speaker, Annual Human Rights Dinner, hosted by Victorian Human Rights Law Resource Centre, Melbourne.

November 2006
Aboriginal Women, Violence and Non-Government Organisations, Aboriginal Family Violence Prevention Legal Services National Conference (hosted by Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department), Cairns.

October 2006
Women, Imprisonment and Mental Health, Community Forensic Mental Health Services Public Seminar, Brisbane.

October 2006
Women, Hep C and Prison, Debate Participant - Hep C and Australian Prisons: A Terminal Sentence, Australian Hep C Conference, Sydney.

September 2006
Kilroy Was Here: Women in Prison, Opening Address, Brisbane Writers Festival, Brisbane.

August 2006
Women, Prison and Human Rights, Amnesty International, Brisbane.

April 2006
Kilroy: My Life, Probus Club, Brisbane.

April 2006
Women, Prison and Human Rights, Australian Rural Leadership Program, Sydney.