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Events
2009 Protecting Human Rights Conference - Friday, 2 October 2009, Art Gallery of NSW
We invite you to register for this one day event that will discuss developments in the legislative protection of human rights in Australia. Leading Australian and international speakers will consider the National Human Rights Consultation, and provide an update of developments in the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, the ACT Human Rights Act and in NSW human rights law. In addition, the conference will address the constitutional dialogue model that is a feature of the human rights statutes in many countries of the British Commonwealth. The conference will also consider some crucial further challenges in relation to human rights protection, including: the rights of Indigenous people; the protection of economic, social and cultural rights; and protecting the human rights of people with a disability.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Professor Larissa Behrendt, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning (UTS)
- The Hon Catherine Branson QC, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
- Father Frank Brennan AO, Chair, National Human Rights Consultation
- Professor Andrew Byrnes, University of New South Wales
- Professor Hilary Charlesworth AM and Renuka Thilagaratnam, Australian National University
- Associate Professor Andrea Durbach, University of New South Wales
- Associate Professor Simon Evans, Melbourne Law School
- Professor Stephen A Gardbaum, University of California, Los Angeles
- Rosemary Kayess, Disability Studies and Research Centre
- Mary Kostakidis, National Human Rights Consultation committee member
- The Hon Keith Mason AC, Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of New South Wales
- Phil Lynch, Human Rights Law Resource Centre
- Dr John Tobin, Melbourne Law School
- Associate Professor Kristen Walker, University of Melbourne
Conference Brochure [PDF]
Conference registration from 29 September 2009, Online registration for this conference has now closed. You can still register to attend the conference by sending an email to Belinda McDonald (gtcentre@unsw.edu.au) with your name, title and contact details. You should bring a cheque or cash for payment on the day – we will not be able to accept credit card payments. If you send your email after 30 September, unfortunately we cannot guarantee that we will be able to provide lunch.
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Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, Faculty
of Law, UNSW Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Tel: +61 2 9385 2257
Fax: +61 2 9385 1175 Email: gtcentre@unsw.edu.au
CRICOS Provider Code 00098G, AUTHORISED BY the Associate Professor Andrew Lynch
Page Last Updated: Wednesday, 13 May 2009,
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