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Prof Paula Gerber

There’s never been a better time: Enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia

Sep 2

Maybe once we get through the Jobs Summit, we could have a #humanrights Summit and start addressing some of these pressing issues??? castancentre.com/2022/09/01/the #auspol #auslaw

castancentre.com

Given that the Australian landscape appears ripe for increased protection of human rights: What are the human rights priorities in Australia?

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Public Interest Law Careers Guide - home

Sep 2

It’s a great time to check out the Public Interest Law Careers Guide; very useful for Australian and Victorian #Lawstudents and #LawGraduates. #Careers #PublicInterestLaw

monash.edu

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You can listen to the Big Ideas recording ⬇️, on the

@ABCaustralia

Listen app, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Human Rights as an Investment in the Future - ABC Radio National

Advancing human rights is as an investment in society's future and should be at the centre of public policy making. We shouldn't only speak of human rights when there is a crisis or scandal. Monash...

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BLOG | In our latest blog, Castan Centre Academic Member

reflects on her recent discussion with Prof

for ABC

There’s never been a better time: Enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia

Big Ideas on enhancing #HumanRights protection in Australia.

castancentre.com

Given that the Australian landscape appears ripe for increased protection of human rights: What are the human rights priorities in Australia?

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Looks like it’s on another night, we will advise when we find out! 📻 ⚡️

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· Aug 31

Tune in tonight at 8pm on @RadioNational to @ABCbigideas hosted by @PaulBarclay for a discussion between @MonashUni's @MikeMintrom and @ProfPaulaGerber on how we could improve #HumanRights protection in Australia. abc.net.au/radionational/

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Big Ideas with Paul Barclay - ABC Radio National

The best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on major social, cultural, scientific and political issues.

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Tune in tonight at 8pm on

to

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@PaulBarclay

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on how we could improve #HumanRights protection in Australia.

Big Ideas with Paul Barclay - ABC Radio National

The best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on major social, cultural, scientific and political issues.

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There’s still time to enrol in

JD/LLM unit ‘#Migration & #humanrights’ on human rights obligations re migration, & obstacles in the context of global mobility. Taught by the wonderful Assoc Prof Heli Askola handbook.monash.edu/2022/units/LAW can study as a single unit

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discuss how we could improve #HumanRights protection. Listen to

tonight 8pm. abc.net.au/radionational/

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Join Neil M. Richards, Koch Distinguished Professor in Law for this instalment of the CLARS Law & Business Seminar Series

Join

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🗓️ Thurs 1 Sep as they discuss why privacy remains so important and offer strategies to help us protect it.

eventbrite.com.au

Why Privacy Matters

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Monash Law

Love sport? Love law? ⚽ Be part of this awesome new JD and LLM unit 👉 Sports Law: Public Policy, Regulation and Governance handbook.monash.edu/2022/units/LAW 🏌️Taught by

@LiamElphick_

and

@ELWindholz

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Aug 29

EVENT | Join the Vic International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee of the

@RedCrossAU

on 15 Sep for a discussion on what #IHL can learn from #Indigenous laws of war. Register ⬇️ events.humanitix.com/launch-of-the-

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Aug 24

This will be a terrific public lecture on reform of the international legal framework for managing pandemics. #HealthLaw #HealthRights #GlobalHeath #InternationalLaw

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Melbourne Law School

@MelbLawSchool

· Aug 10

Join us at the ‘Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture’, with global health law expert, Gian Luca Burci discussing how #COVID has revealed flaws in the legal and institutional frameworks for preventing and responding to the spread of diseases.

unimelb.me/3vLNgmn

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Melissa Castan

Our Internship Program offers full time internships for 4-6 weeks or part-time equivalents at organisations working to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Aurora supports...

Aug 22

#LawStudent Internship Opportunities: the Aurora program offers a unique and impactful internships in native title, Indigenous legal advocacy and other related organisations. Appl'ns close 28 August

@AuroraEducation

aurorafoundation.com.au

Internships

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Aug 16

So happy to announce that our Centre Director

& Academic Member

@DrLukeBeck

have both been promoted to Professor 🌟 🌟 Terrific recognition of their roles in leadership, research, education & contribution to

, the

community & beyond💫

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will be on the expert panel for this special screening of Dear Future Children on Thursday 25th August. Palace Cinema Como. #ChildrensRights #GlobalHealth Tix eventbrite.com.au/e/dear-future-

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BioMelbourne Network

@biomelb

· Aug 13

The @ausglobalhealth Alliance is partnering with Global Health Film to bring the Aus Global Health Film Festival from 16 - 25 Aug! Featuring 9 films + Q&A sessions with the film directors and global health experts. Find out more: ow.ly/ns4G50Keyi6

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Australian Senate

@AuSenate

Aug 15

Our next #Senate lecture is on this Friday (19 August) and will reflect on the 10th anniversary of the Joint Human Rights Committee aph.gov.au/Senate/Lectures

#humanrights #pjchr #Auspol

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Aug 15

Academic Member Dr Tania Penovic will deliver the opening address on the implications of the overturning of Roe v Wade for Australia and stigma in exercising #ReproductiveRights at the Annual Obstetric Malpractice Conference on 13 September. #Health #HumanRights

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Monash Sustainable Development Institute

@MonashMSDI

Aug 8

EVENT // Join us for our next #researchseminar with

discussing his book, Advancing Human Rights, and ways that #policydesign can effectively support achieving specific #SDGs. monash.edu/msdi/news-and-

Monash Research

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Monash Law

On behalf of our Lucinda Lecture Convenor, Prof Marilyn Pittard, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to The Honourable Justice Michelle Gordon AC

@HighCourtofAus

for delivering her brilliant lecture 'Taking Judging and Judges Seriously' on Tues night. Thank you to all who attended!

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With new limitations on the right to protest, timely to revisit this special edition of the monash university law review

The Law of Protest (2018)

monash.edu/law/news-and-e with work by

& others #HumanRights #RightToExpression

monash.edu

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Melissa Castan

Friday essay: a slave state - how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism

This is a #longread, and a very important part of our tragic and true history. Please read it. Friday essay: ‘A slave state - how blackbirding in colonial Australia created a legacy of racism’ by

@Jeff_Sparrow

theconversation.com

Forced labour in the cane fields of Queensland has had a lasting influence of the Australian nation.

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Tonight’s #HumanRights conversation with

@PaulBarclay

,

and

will be broadcast soon on

, we will post the link when it becomes available. #HumanRightsLaw

Big Ideas with Paul Barclay - ABC Radio National

The best of talks, forums, debates, and festivals held in Australia and around the world, casting light on major social, cultural, scientific and political issues.

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And here is the two volumes ‘Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia’ edited by

and

legal.thomsonreuters.com.au/critical-persp

@TRAUS

#HumanRights

legal.thomsonreuters.com.au

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia Volume 1/Volume 2

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Here is a link to

’s new book ‘Advancing Human Rights’ publishing.monash.edu/authors/michae with

Press. publishing.monash.edu/authors/michae

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And here is the two volumes ‘Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia’ edited by

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legal.thomsonreuters.com.au/critical-persp

@TRAUS

#HumanRights

legal.thomsonreuters.com.au

Critical Perspectives on Human Rights Law in Australia Volume 1/Volume 2

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Here is a link to

’s new book ‘Advancing Human Rights’ publishing.monash.edu/authors/michae with

Press. publishing.monash.edu/authors/michae

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We are underway with a terrific conversation on ‘Enhancing the Protection of human rights in Australia’ with

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of Big Ideas

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Enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia

Jul 25

EVENT | Join us in-person on 4 August for a discussion on enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia with Academic Member

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. Register ⬇️ #HumanRights #Auslaw

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Join Prof Paula Gerber and Prof Michael Mintrom in a conversation with ABC Radio presenter, Paul Barclay about human rights in Australia.

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Enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia

Aug 2

EVENT | Two days to go until our 4 August in-person discussion on enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia with Academic Member

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Join Prof Paula Gerber and Prof Michael Mintrom in a conversation with ABC Radio presenter, Paul Barclay about human rights in Australia.

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US abortion bans unleash state-sanctioned violence against women

Aug 2

Academic Member Dr Tania Penovic has written on the implications of the overturning of Roe v Wade and what this might mean for the anti-abortion movement in Australia. #HumanRights #ReproductiveRights

lowyinstitute.org

The Australian anti-abortion movement wants to learn from and replicate the campaign to overturn Roe vs Wade.

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This terrific forum will discuss the relationship between truth in political advertising laws and the Australian Constitution’s implied freedom of political communication, as well as Sth Australia’s Political Advertising laws. Register now! Wed 10th August

@DrLukeBeck

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Australian Association of Constitutional Law

@AACL_AusCon

· Jul 10

*Online event* Truth in Political Advertising Laws and the Constitution Chair - A/Prof Luke Beck, Monash Speakers - Mick Sherry, Electoral Commissioner of South Australia - Prof Lisa Hill, Adelaide - Kieran Pender, ANU 10 Aug 2022, 5:30pm AEST eventbrite.com.au/e/truth-in-pol

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Australian Association of Constitutional Law

@AACL_AusCon

Jul 10

*Online event* Truth in Political Advertising Laws and the Constitution Chair - A/Prof Luke Beck, Monash Speakers - Mick Sherry, Electoral Commissioner of South Australia - Prof Lisa Hill, Adelaide - Kieran Pender, ANU 10 Aug 2022, 5:30pm AEST

eventbrite.com.au

Truth in Political Advertising Laws and the Australian Constitution

Join this webinar to hear a discussion about truth in political advertising laws and the Australian Constitution.

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Monash Law

Enhancing the protection of human rights in Australia

Jul 31

📅 Thursday 4 August. Join @DrPaulaGerber and

for a great

conversation with

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Join Prof Paula Gerber and Prof Michael Mintrom in a conversation with ABC Radio presenter, Paul Barclay about human rights in Australia.

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Melissa Castan

UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment

Jul 29

With 161 votes in favour, the UN General Assembly has adopted a historic resolution declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. #HumanRights #HumanRightsLaw #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalJustice

news.un.org

With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions*, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on Thursday, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal

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A Robot Breaks the Finger of a 7-Year Old: A Lesson in the Need for Stronger Artificial Intelligence

Jul 28

BLOG | Our latest blog from Deputy Director (Research) Assoc Professor

@mariaosulliv

discusses the ethical and legal implications of robots in the wake of a robot breaking a child's finger during a chess tournament last week. #HumanRights #AI #Technology

castancentre.com

Disturbing footage emerged this week of a chess-playing robot breaking the finger of a seven-year-old child during a tournament in Russia. Public commentary on this event highlights some concern in…

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