The Hon Susan Ryan AO is Australia’s first ever Age Discrimination Commissioner. We were fortunate enough to host her at our annual conference on 20 July this year and have posted two videos below. In this 5 minute Q&A Susan Ryan discusses the prevalence of age discrimination, whether or not Australian law adequately protects older…

Allan Asher is the former Commonwealth Ombudsman and an outspoken advocate for the rights of asylum seekers. He also recently participated in SBS’ hit show “Go Back to Where You Came From”. We were fortunate enough to host him at our annual conference on 20 July this year and have posted two videos below. In…

Professor Tim Flannery is one of Australia’s leading experts on climate change. We were fortunate enough to host him at our annual conference on 20 July this year and have posted two videos below. In this 5 minute Q&A video, Professor Flannery discusses the difficulty of motivating people to fix an inter-generational problem, the need to…

Paris Aristotle AM is the Director of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc (also known as Foundation House), a position he has held since helped found the organisation in 1987. He was recently a member of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers and discussed the Expert Panel’s report in conversation with Michael Gordon, the National…

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AO QC is one of the world’s leading experts on the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine. We were fortunate enough to host him at our annual conference on 20 July this year and have posted two videos below. In this 7 minute Q&A video, Professor Evans discusses R2P and explains…

We were very fortunate to host Tunisian blogger and anti-censorship activist Sami Ben Gharbia at our annual conference on 20 July this year.  Below are two videos of Mr Ben Gharbia, who is a founding Director of Global Voices Advocacy and Co-founder of the Tunisian award-winning collective blog nawaat.org. In this nine-minute Q&A video, shot…