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NAIDOC Week 2025 – National Webinar

Join us 8 July at 1:30pm for our NAIDOC Week 2025 live webinar with guest speaker Dr Lorraine Muller, an Indigenous Australian scholar, author, and social work leader.

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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

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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The Benefits of Critical Reflection to Progress Climate Action: A Qualitative Study
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Advancing Trauma-Informed Practices for K–12 Schools and Institutions of Higher Education
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Social Work in Primary Health Care: Integration, Implications and Impact
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Tapping into Practice Wisdom through Research
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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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