News : Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law (G+T Centre)

Dec		Andrew Lynch writes for Osgoode Hall Law School’s Top Court site on the cases of Thomas v Mowbray and Roach v Electoral Commissioner in the High Court of Australia

		`Law and Liberty in the War on Terror` edited by Andrew Lynch, Edwina MacDonald and George Williams now available from Federation Press

		Andrew Lynch and George Williams discuss the legislative response of the Howard government to the threat of terrorism in a special edition of Chain Reaction on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes in The Australian on a national charter of rights

Nov		Centre intern Ya`el Frisch writes in the NSW Consumer Advisory Group newsletter on how a NSW Charter of Rights could redress injustices faced by forensic patients

		George Williams writes in the Weekend Australian on a film from far, far away

		What Price Security? By Andrew Lynch and George Williams shortlisted for a 2007 Human Rights Award

		Centre Director Professor George Williams reviews Fatal Revenant in the Weekend Australian

Oct		Jane McAdam interviwed on 3CR Community Radio on climate change `refugees` (with Elizabeth Jakob,Tuesday Breakfast)

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on ABC Radio`s PM program on proposed reconciliation referendum

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on Stateline on a Charter of Rights for Tasmania

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on The World Today on an Indigenous referendum

		Edwina MacDonald and George Williams publish on ‘Combating terrorism: Australia’s Criminal Code Since September 11, 2001’ in Griffith Law Review

		Sean Brennan writes for Online Opinion about John Howard’s proposal for a constitutional preamble acknowledging Indigenous people

		Andrew Lynch discusses recent remarks by Justice Michael Kirby and the role and value of dissent on the High Court of Australia on ABC Radio National’s ‘The Law Report’

		Dominique Dalla-Pozza and George Williams publish ‘The Constitutional Validity of Declarations of Incompatibility in Australian Charters of Human Rights’ in the Deakin Law Review

		Seminar on Some Legal Aspects of Climate Change with Michael Slattery QC, the Hon Murracy Willcox, Jane McAdam and Matthew Baird

		Andrew Lynch discusses the reaction to the Court of Appeal`s overturning of Jack Thomas` conviction in August last year in the Adelaide Law Review

Sep		Centre Intern, Talia Epstein, writes on The democratic pitfalls of ‘aspirational nationalism’ for Australian Policy Online

		Law and Liberty in the War on Terror to be published by Federation Press

		Jane McAdam to speak at seminar on Climate-induced displacement and international law: on or off the map?

		Andrew Lynch delivers a paper, ‘Perspectives on Federalism’ at the National Industrial Relations Conference, 11 September 2007

		Edwina MacDonald and George Williams publish on ‘Academic Freedom and the “War on Terror”’ in Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand

		Jane McAdam speaks on ABC Radio’s Perspective on ‘Climate Change Refugees and International Law’

		Centre Director Professor George Williams` Issues Paper for Inquiry into a new cooperative Industrial Relations system released

		Amnesty International Australia UNSW presents discussion on Human rights and Australian identity in an age of terror

Aug		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes in the Australian on the need for an inquiry into the Haneef case

		Talia Epstein (Centre Intern) and Andrew Lynch consider the dangers of ‘selective centralism’ in the Sydney Morning Herald

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes for The Australian on reform of law and government

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on ABC Radio`s The World Today on federalism

		Andrew Lynch argues the Haneef case highlights the error in `balancing` rights against security in the Australian

		Andrew Lynch discusses the outcome of the Jack Thomas case in the light of the tradition of strong dissenting opinions in the Australian

		Centre supplementary submission to Senate inquiry into Commonwealth intervention on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory

		Centre submission on compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal property rights for Senate inquiry into Commonwealth intervention on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory

		Centre Director Professor George Williams to chair an inquiry into a co-operative system of industrial relations for Australia

		Andrew Lynch considers the Federal Court decision overturning the Immigration Minister’s revocation of Dr Haneef’s visa in the Age

		Talia Epstein (Centre Intern) and Andrew Lynch consider the dangers of ‘selective centralism’ in the Sydney Morning Herald

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on ABC Radio`s Perspective on a Charter of Rights for Australia

		Centre Director Professor George Williams makes a submission to the Senate, Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee on the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Bill 2007

Jul		Andrew Lynch considers the Commonwealth government’s record on anti-terrorism in the Courier-Mail

		Sir Gerard Brennan address at Law & Liberty in the War on Terror extracted in the Sydney Morning Herald

		Professor Clive Walker, a keynote speaker at Law & Liberty in the War on Terror is quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald

		Phillip Boulten SC`s comments on the prospect of fair trials for persons charged with terrorism offences at the Law & Liberty in the War on Terror reported in the Australian

		Sir Gerard Brennan`s dinner speech at the Symposium on Law & Liberty in the War on Terror reported on ABC Radio`s AM program

		Professor Clive Walker`s speech at the Symposium on Law & Liberty in the War on Terror reported on ABC Radio`s PM program

		Andrew Lynch, Edwina MacDonald and George Williams make a submission to the inquiry into Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007

		New Zealand Centre for Public Law to hold an international conference in honour of Sir Kenneth Keith

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes in The Australian on High Court appointments

		Centre Diretor Professor George Williams speaks on ABC radio`s AM program on detention for terrorism offences

		Andrew Lynch considers the terrorism charge against Dr Mohamed Haneef in the Age

		Andrew Lynch speaks on ABC Radio`s PM program on detention without charge under Australia`s anti-terror laws

		Centre visitor, Lawrence McNamara, writes on the Haneef charge for the Australian

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on ABC Radio`s World Today program and writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age on the Murray-Darling and the High Court.

		Andrew Lynch discusses the Haneef affair on ABC Radio’s Law Report

Jun		Sean Brennan and Centre Director Professor George Williams to speak at UNSW Indigenous Law Centre event on the 1967 referendum

		Centre staff make a submission in response to the Attorney-General`s Department`s Discussion Paper on "Material that Advocates Terrorist Acts"

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes for the Sydney Morning Herald on anti-terror laws and censorship

		Centre intern Ya’el Frisch writes for Online Opinion on a charter of rights and forensic patients in NSW

		Sean Brennan speaks on recent developments in native title case law at a Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission seminar

		Andrew Lynch considers ‘The Once and Future Court’ in reviewing a new book on the High Court under Chief Justice Mason

		Centre staff make a submission to the NSW Ombudsman’s Office Review of Parts 2A and 3 of the Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002 (NSW)

		Andrew Lynch publishes “The Intelligence of a Future Day’ – The Vindication of Constitutional Dissent in the High Court of Australia 1981-2003’ in the Sydney Law Review

		Centre postgraduate student Danial Guttman publishes on Roach v Commonwealth in the Sydney Law Review

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on ABC Radio`s The World Today on legal hurdles for Commonwealth intervention in the Northern Territory

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes for the Courier Mail on anti-terror laws and censorship

		Centre Director Professor George Williams makes a submission to the Inquiry into Australian Citizenship Amendment (Citizenship Testing) Bill 2007

May		Centre Director Professor George Williams debates Charters of Rights on the National Interest on ABC Radio

		Lawyers Weekley writes about Jane McAdam`s work on climate change refugees

		Uniken writes about Jane McAdam`s work on complementary protection

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes on the right to vote in the Herald Sun

Apr		Centre Director, Professor George Williams writes in the Age and Sydney Morning Herald on David Hicks and the need for an Australian Charter of Rights

		Centre Director, Professor George Williams writes in the Courier Mail on David Hicks, gag orders and the need for an Australian Charter of Rights

		Register now for a panel discussion at Gleebooks on A Charter of Rights for Australia with Susan Ryan, Richard Ackland, George Williams and moderated by Geoff Gallop

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes in the Australian on industrial law and the Constitution

Mar		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on ABC Radio National`s Perspective on anti-terror laws

		Centre Director Professor George Williams and Edwina MacDonald write in the Age and Courier Mail on the charging of David Hicks

		New project starts up at the Centre: Climate Change `Refugees` and International Law

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes in the Sydney Morning Herald on federalism

		UNSW Press publishes George Williams` "A Charter of Rights for Australia"

		Sean Brennan writes in the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter about recent changes to the Aboriginal Land Rights Act in the Northern Territory

		Paul Kildea writes in Online Opinion on deliberative democracy

		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes for the Courier Mail and the Age on federal reform

		Centre Director Professor George Williams to speak at the Launch of the NSW Charter of Human Rights Group on 16 April 2007 at NSW Parliament House

		2008 Constitutional Law Conference and Dinner will be held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and New South Wales Parliament House on 8 February 2008. Further details to follow.

		Andrew Lynch and Alexander Reilly publish ‘The Constitutionality Validity of Terrorism Orders of Control and Preventative Detention’ in the Flinders Journal of Law Reform

		Andrew Lynch publishes ‘Legislating with Urgency – the Enactment of Anti-Terrorism Act [No 1] 2005’ in the Melbourne University Law Review

		Sean Brennan speaks on ABC’s Message Stick about the impact on Indigenous people of restrictions recently introduced on voting and enrolment for federal elections

		Centre Director Professor George Williams speaks on the World Today about the trial of David Hicks

		Centre Director Professor George Williams appears on ABC Television`s Lateline on the trial of David Hicks

		Edwina MacDonald and Centre Director Professor George Williams write in the Courier Mail, Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun on Hicks` guilty plea

		Andrew Lynch writes in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age on the significance of David Hicks`s guilty plea.

Feb		Centre welcomes Jane McAdam to the Faculty of Law and as the Director of it`s International Law Project

		Submission made to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security on the Criminal Code Act 1995

		Andrew Lynch discusses the present status of Jack Thomas – the man subject to Australia’s first control order on ABC Radio National

Jan		Centre Director Professor George Williams writes in the Courier Mail on the law in review

		Andrew Lynch and Centre Director Professor George Williams write in the Australian on the making and review of anti-terrorism laws

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