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National Reconciliation Week 2025 – live webinar

Join us on 4 June for our National Reconciliation Week 2025 live webinar, featuring Dr Christine Fejo-King, a senior Larrakia Elder, social worker and advocate for Indigenous self-determination.

Celebrating our AASW volunteers

This National Volunteer Week, we thank our 400 AASW member volunteers. Your dedication, expertise, and generosity strengthen our social work community.

Medibank now recognises AMHSWs as mental health service providers

Following successful advocacy by the AASW, Medibank members will now be able to claim benefits for services delivered by AMHSWs.

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Social policy and advocacy overview

Social policy and advocacy overview

Advocacy is a core social work skill, bridging people & environments

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Advocacy for the profession

Advocacy for the profession

Advocacy is a core skill integral to social work practice

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Policy positions

Policy positions

The AASW advocates for social justice, key issues, and the profession

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Registration of social workers

Registration of social workers

The AASW calls for national statutory registration of social worker

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22
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Former Teenage Mothers: Challenging “Your Life Is Over” Discourse and Showcasing Strengths
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19
May
Social Work Professional Identity Development in International Students and Graduates
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16
May
Early Intervention Program for High-Risk Youth: Preliminary Evidence on Costs Avoided
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08
May
Correction
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When you join the AASW you’ll become part of an active and vibrant community of more than 17,000 social work professionals. As the profession’s peak body, the AASW is committed to maintaining high standards, ethical practice and ongoing professional development.

The AASW helped me understand my sense of professional identity as a social worker, it will be a career-long endeavour of creating and recreating my professional identity

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