The 2024 CCAWA Seminar and AGM were held at the Sebel Hotel Mandurah on Friday 19 April 2024.

The theme was “When Hello Becomes Goodbye”. Links to presentations from event are available below.

Thank you for all those who participated in the CCAWA 2024 Annual General Meeting and One Day Seminar

2024 CCAWA Seminar Photos

Sponsor Presentations

• ACCA
• Arrow Bronze
• Chronicle
• Dearly Plaques and Memorials
• Everlon
• Final Touch
• Phoenix Foundry
• Plotbox

Speaker Presentations

• Kelli Peirce – Keynote Speaker – Grief and Bereavement from Another Angle
• Deanne McLeod – Australian Funeral Directors Association Update
• Joe Scurria – Who has the Rights.
• Christine McGrath – Acknowledgement of Past Presidents and 30 years of CCAWA
• Joanne Hender – Update of Cemeteries Act 1986 and Cremation Act 1929 Review by DPLG
• Prof Samar Aoun BSC (Hons) MPH Phd – The Role of the Death Industry in Compassionate Communities
• Sharon Todd – Towards the Dreaming Culturally Sensitive Funerals for Indigenous Families
• Fiona Hurst – Cemetery Safety – The Right and Wrong Way
• Melissa Marcon and Leigh Milligan – How it Should Be Done in Small Shires