To be opened by the Hon. Linda Burney, NSW Minister responsible for Fair Trading, Youth and Volunteering.  

Keynote speaker: Gun-Britt Martensson, International Co-operative Alliance  

Other speakers include: Professor Julian Disney Director, Social Justice Project University of New South Wales and Chair, National Affordable Housing Summit; Gary Moore, Director Community Services Marrickville Council;  Professor Jenny Onyx, Director, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, UTS; Karine Shellshear, Executive Officer, Association to Resource Co-operative Housing; Dr Jo Barraket, Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne and John Mant, lawyer and urban planner.  

Early bird closes 31 December  

For information and registration: www.mercury.org.au/lc  

Presented by Living Co-operatively Consortium: University of Technology Sydney, Marrickville Council and Parramatta City Council, supported by Association to Resource Co-operative Housing (ARCH), Co-operative Federation of NSW and The Mercury Centre.  

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