Past Events

Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT): for disorders of overcontrol

  • Mercure Perth
  • 29 Jul 2020
  • 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Past Event

Dr Malinder Bhullar is a forensic psychologist who qualified in Western Australia before moving t... More Details

First responses to mental health crisis: where to from here?

  • Rydges South Bank Brisbane
  • 06 Mar 2020
  • 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM
  • Past Event

Ed Heffernan is the Director of the Queensland Forensic Mental Health Service and an Associate Pr... More Details

Covert recordings as evidence in criminal trials, and 2020 AGM

  • Wesley Conference Centre
  • 04 Mar 2020
  • 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
  • Past Event

We are excited to welcome Associate Professor Helen Fraser, Adjunct Associate Professor in Lingui... More Details

A stolen life - the Bruce Trevorrow case

  • Mercure Perth
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

Tony Buti MLA is the Member for Armadale, a lawyer and legal academic and prolific writer. In his... More Details

2019 Christmas sundowner

  • 399 Small Bar
  • 06 Dec 2019
  • 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! This year the ANZAPPL WA committee have decided to g... More Details

The role of mental health services in our changing security environment

  • Treasury Theatre
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • 9:00 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

There has been a global increase in lone actor attacks in recent years, and Australia and New Zea... More Details

Identifying risk in intimate partner violence: psychiatric, psychological and legal factors

  • Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, South Bank Campus
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM
  • Past Event

Violence against an intimate partner is common and can have a wide range of outcomes. In this sem... More Details

The Sydney Lindt Café Siege: the role of the consultant psychiatrist

  • The Lion Hotel
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • 9:00 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

After the Lindt café siege in Sydney in 2014, the NSW Coroner concluded that although he did not ... More Details

Uluru Statement from the Heart

  • Mercure Perth
  • 13 Nov 2019
  • 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
  • Past Event

The Uluru Statement from the Heart was a national Indigenous consensus position on Indigenous con... More Details

Suspect interrogation

  • Wesley Conference Centre
  • 16 Oct 2019
  • 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM
  • Past Event

The traditional method used with suspects is to interrogate them using an accusatory style, often... More Details

Pill testing at music events: An evidence-based harm minimisation intervention which should be adopted in Australia

  • Pacific Hotel Brisbane
  • 11 Oct 2019
  • 9:30 PM – 11:30 PM
  • Past Event

During his evidence to the current Coroner’s Inquest into deaths at music festivals in New South ... More Details

Direct cross-examination in family law matters

  • Mercure Perth
  • 02 Oct 2019
  • 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Past Event

Some perpetrators of family violence have used cross-examination of their former partners as a me... More Details

Intimate image abuse

  • Mercure Perth
  • 28 Aug 2019
  • 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Past Event

The introduction of Intimate Image Abuse legislation was an election commitment of the McGowan Go... More Details

Locking up our oldies: who agreed to that? Legal issues on consent in aged care

  • Mercure Perth
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Past Event

Restriction of personal liberty to choose where to live, and who to associate with, is usually on... More Details

First responders and the consequences of exposure to trauma: what can be done in response and does it work?

  • SMC Conference & Function Centre
  • 25 Jul 2019
  • 8:30 PM – 11:00 PM
  • Past Event

We are privileged to have three distinguished speakers who will deliver individual talks and faci... More Details