Policy Dialogue on Migration and Ageing in a Multicultural Australia

8:30 – 9:00

Arrival and Registration

9:00 – 9:45

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS

• Janine O’Flynn, Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
• John Piggott, Director, CEPAR, UNSW Sydney

9:45 – 11:00

SESSION 1: How migration is set to change older age groups

Chair: Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, CEPAR Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne

9:45-10:00

Cultural and linguistic diversity (CALD) in an ageing Australia: How diversity is set to boom among older age groups

Rafal Chomik, CEPAR Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney

10:00-10:20

Macro-demographic context and impact of migration

Peter McDonald, CEPAR Chief Investigator, University of Melbourne

10:20-10:40

Projections of ageing CALD communities

Jeromey Temple, CEPAR Professor of Economic Demography, University of Melbourne

10:40-11:00

Combined Q&A session

11:00 -11:30

Morning Tea

11:30 – 12:50

SESSION 2: Socioeconomic experience of ageing migrants and CALD communities

11:30-11:50

CALD navigation of medical care

Reema Harrison, Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University

11:50-12:10

CALD health outcomes

Fiona Stanaway, CEPAR Associate Investigator, The University of Sydney

12:10-12:30

Perspectives by commentator(s):

• Julie Byles, CEPAR Associate Investigator, University of Newcastle
• Bianca Brijnath, Director of Social Gerontology, National Ageing Research Institute

12:30-12:50

Combined Q&A session

12:50 – 13:50

Lunch

13:50 – 15:10

SESSION 3: Health and care

Chair: Marian Baird, CEPAR Chief Investigator, The University of Sydney

13:50-14:10

CALD communities and the care economy

Myra Hamilton, Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies, The University of Sydney

14:10-14:30

CALD navigation of aged care

Lee-Fay Low, Professor in Ageing and Health, The University of Sydney

14:30-14:50

Perspectives by commentator(s):

• Michael Lye, Deputy Secretary for Ageing and Aged Care, Department of Health and Aged Care
• Mary Ann Baquero Geronimo, Chief Executive Officer, Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA)

14:50-15:10

Combined Q&A session

15:10 – 15:40

Afternoon Tea

15:40 – 17:00

PANEL SESSION: Policy, practice and research – challenges and responses for implementation

Chair: Warwick McKibbin, CEPAR Chief Investigator, Director of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), ANU Crawford School of Public Policy

Panellists:

• Marian Baird, CEPAR Chief Investigator, The University of Sydney
• Bei Lu, CEPAR Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
• Ian Yates, Acting Inspector General of Aged Care, Office of the Inspector General of Aged Care

Further panellists to be confirmed.

17:00

CLOSING REMARKS

Warwick McKibbin, CEPAR Chief Investigator, CAMA Director, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy