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Fourth Australasian women and policing conference : Improving policing for women in the Asia Pacific region

Darwin
21 August 2005 - 24 August 2005

This conference was organised by the Australasian Council for Women and Policing in association with Northern Territory Police and Partnerships Against Domestic Violence

Conference papers

Keynote address

• Violence against women in the Asia region (presentation not available)
  Ms Jean Enriquez, Deputy Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Asia Pacific

Policing women in the region

• Women, peace and security in Melanesia (PDF 43kB)
  Dr Abby McLeod, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
• Police reform in the Asia-Pacific : prospects for partnership and peace (PDF 695kB)
  Professor Andrew Goldsmith, Flinders University, South Australia
• Good policing for Indigenous women who experience violence in remote communities (presentation not available)
  (Ms Jane Lloyd, Manager, Domestic Violence Service, NPY Women's Council, Northern Territory

Women in policing in the region

• Status of women police in Asia : an agenda for future research
  Dr Mangai Natarajan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, USA
• Women in policing in the Pacific : 'our journey'
  Assistant Commander Lautoa Faletau, Pacific Islands Chiefs of Police Secretariat, Tongan Police
• Women in policing in Australia and New Zealand (presentation not available)
  Ms Jane Clark, Commissioner's Australasian Women in Policing Advisory Committee
• The status of women in policing : the rest of the world (UK, Europe, Africa, Americas) | Presentation slides
  Delia Quigley, International Deployment Group, Australian Federal Police

Policing trafficking in women and children

• Trafficking in women for prostitution : mechanics and impacts
  Ms Kathleen Maltzahn, Project Respect, Victoria
• Trafficking of women and children | Presentation slides
  Mr Christopher Payne, NSW

Policing sexual assault - best practice

• Rape, reform and resistance | Presentation slides
  Dr Jan Jordan, Institute of Criminology, University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Better policing responses to adult sexual assault | Presentation slides
  Detective Superintendent Kim McKay, Child Protection and Sex Crimes Squad, New South Wales Police

How policing needs to change

• Sex discrimination and sexual harassment within the New South Wales Police : has anything changed?
  Mark Peter Szalajko, Australian Graduate School of Policing, Charles Sturt University
• Making policing an employer of choice : barriers and facilitators to the success of women in policing | Presentation slides
  Ms Nadia Boni, Australasian Centre for Policing Research

Policing for women in PNG

• Policing for women in Papua New Guinea
  Kirsty Allen, International Women's Development Agency; and Helen Hakena, Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency

Networks

• Developing a network in the Pacific region (presentation not available)
  Inspector Sera Bernard
• Working together for women's human rights (presentation not available)
  Ms Erica Lewis, WomenSpeak Network
• Networking for better performance | Presentation slides
  Detective Superintendent Kim McKay, New South Wales Police

Equality through policing : the role and importance of policing for women's human rights

• Equality through policing : the role and importance of policing for women's human rights
  Ms Helen McDermott, Australasian Council of Women and policing
• Community policing, paramilitary policing and implications for women
  Dr Jude McCulloch, Criminal Justice and Criminology, Monash University, Victoria
• Human rights, women's rights : more than a whisper, less than a roar | Presentation slides
  Dr Anne Gallagher, Asia Regional Cooperation to Prevent People Trafficking, Thailand

Why do we need women as leaders in policing?

• The value of diversity in executive teams and executive education
  Dr Jim Hann, Australian Institute of Police Management, NSW
• 'Take me to your leader'
  Federal Agent Audrey Fagan, Chief Police Officer, ACT, Australian Federal Police

Domestic and family violence

• Going bush... supporting women in remote locations
  Ms Nannette Hunter, Co-ordinator, Witness Assistance Service, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, NT and Ms Colleen Burns, Aboriginal Support Co-ordinator, Witness Assistance Service, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, NT
• Dispute resolution by women police in Tamil Nadu, India, in dealing with dowry-related domestic violence cases (presentation not available)
  Dr Mangai Natarajan, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, USA

Resolving conflict

• A strategy to reduce the incidence of assault and domestic violence in the Northern Territory
  Senior Sergeant Joanne Foley, NT Police
• Workplace conflict management workshops in the Queensland Police Service | Presentation slides
  Sergeant Maree Foelz, Queensland Police Service

Police unions

• The price of freedom is eternal vigilance
  Ms Jan Berry, Police Federation of England and Wales
• Women in police unions (presentation not available)
  Dr Jenny Fleming, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Rethinking women's crime

• Structural injustice : criminalising the powerless | Presentation slides
  Dr Susan Hawthorne, Communication, Culture and Language, Victoria University
• Women in policing making a difference to women's human rights (presentation not available)
  Mr Tony Fitzgerald, Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, NT

Women in policing

• Being invisible : the reality of working in a masculine organisation (presentation not available)
  Ms Wendy Austin, New South Wales Police
• Improving the quality of part-time work in policing services (presentation not available)
  Dr Sara Charlesworth and Dr Kerri Whittenbury, Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT University, Victoria

Policing family violence : are policing strategies working for women?

• NSW women and 'She said...' He Said...' Cross applications in NSW domestic violence protection order proceedings (presentation not available)
  Ms Jane Wangmann, University of Sydney
• Domestic violence is a crime - isn't it? The police response to domestic violence in Queensland
  Ms Kim Adams, Crime and Misconduct Commission, Queensland

Improving policing's response to women

• Safe at home (presentation not available)
  Sergeant Debbie Williams, Tasmania Police
• The establishment of the Special Service Unit (RPK) in Indonesia | Presentation slides
  Ms Irawati Harsono

Peacekeeping and rebuilding

• Peacekeeping and rebuilding in the Pacific region (presentation not available)
  Sergeant Evelyn Thugea, Royal Solomon Islands Police
• Security Council Resolution 1325 (presentation not available)
  Ms Erica Lewis, WomenSpeak Network

Women leading change

• Women leading change : women in the community with women in policing
  Ms Susan Harwood, Quality Consulting

Hypothetical : If women ran policing...

• Slides (PDF 72kB)
  Dr Jenny Fleming, Ms Jan Berry, Federal Agent Audrey Fagan, Professor Andrew Goldsmith, Dr Jude McCulloch, Assistant Commander Lautoa Faletau, Dr Mangai Natarajan, Ms Jean Enriquez

Related conferences

Papers are also available for the First, Second and Third Australasian women and policing conferences