AUSIT Webinar | 38th National Conference – All Recordings

This collection of recordings from the 38th AUSIT National Conference includes all permitted recordings from the main theatre. This includes all those publicly available and paid PD sessions. November 2025, Canberra ACT, Australia.

Thu 20 Nov        Manning Clark Theatre

Welcome to Country + Conference Opening

• Uncle Wally Bell, Ngunnawal elder
• Michael Pettersson MLA, ACT Minister for Multicultural Affairs
• Carl Gene Fordham, National President

Two ‘engagement’ issues:

1. Code of Ethics community awareness poster – Jim Hlavac, Emiliano Zucchi, Language Loop
2. A proposal for comprehensive industry reform – Sam Roberts, Professionals Australia

Engaging with change: insights into how NAATI supports practitioners to respond and adapt to technological changes – Aurélie Sheehan

Fri 21 Nov         Manning Clark Theatre

Keynote #1 Judicial Officers working with interpreters: implications for access to justice – Prof Ludmila Stern, Prof Sandra Hale, Prof Stephen Doherty, Prof Mel Schwartz (UNSW), Dr Julie Lim (UTS)

Are we there yet? – an interactive co-creation exercise – Heather Glass

Keynote #2 The ‘Guide for Clinicians Working with Interpreters’ – six years on – Prof Christine Phillips (ANU)

Workshop: the revision of the AUSIT Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct – your questions answered – Jim Hlavac, Saeed Khosravi

Professional ethics for the specialist providing language support to law enforcement and intelligence agencies – Steve Elkanovich

Sat 22 Nov        Manning Clark Theatre

Keynote #3 Community Translation: engaging with com-unities, governments and other stakeholders – Prof Mustapha Taibi (WSU)

Update on the development of an LSP endorsement model – Leigh Cox, NAATI

Jill Blewett Memorial Lecture: The state of Australia’s T&I sector – a view from the councils of our ethnic communities – Mary Ann Baquero Geronimo, CEO of FECCA

Working at the speed of need: rethinking engagement through on-demand interpreting services – Danielle Vicary

Strengthening professional practice in legal settings – innovative ways to build legal interpreter capability and skills in NSW courts – Rema Nazha, Zeina Issa

A linguistic toolkit for the AI era: empowering student translators to post-edit with skills and confidence – Alisa Tian

Conference close – Carl Gene Fordham, National President