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Short and long videos from our 2012 Conference – Susan Ryan
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…
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Short and long videos from our 2012 conference – Allan Asher
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…
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The Right to Silence Takes a Beating in NSW
By Adam Fletcher* Earlier this month, the NSW Government announced that it is going to restrict criminal suspects’ right to silence to ‘tilt the scales of justice towards common sense.’ A Bill will be introduced by October to amend the Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) “to allow juries and the judiciary to draw an adverse inference…
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Short and long videos from our 2012 Conference – Professor Tim Flannery
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…
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Short and long videos from our event with Paris Aristotle, member of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers
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…
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Are we really staying in Afghanistan to preserve our reputation?
Last week Australia experienced its worst day in terms of combat deaths since the Vietnam war. The tragic deaths of five diggers were mourned by our Prime Minister with words of sorrow, followed by her now rote promise that the deaths would not turn Australia from its present course in Afghanistan. In particular, Australia is “there for…
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