This year's conference will focus on the need for community organisations to become central to the search for policy solutions.

The fifth annual Communities in Control Conference - Australia's biggest and most popular annual gathering of community sector workers, volunteers and supporters - will bring together delegates from all sectors and from all over Australia, and a fantastic array of speakers, including US social change trailblazer Angela Glover Blackwell, renowned social forecaster Bernard Salt, plus High Court Judge and community leader Justice Michael Kirby AC, social critic Eva Cox AO, architect of the "green bans" movement Jack Mundey AO, and many more.