2008 Events

Lord Bingham – ‘Dignity, Fairness and Good Government: The Role of a Human Rights Act’, Speech by Senior Law Lord to Human Rights Law Resource Centre (9 December 2008)

“It would clearly test to destruction the tolerance of the ordinary red-blooded Australian to have a Pom getting off the plane from London and telling them how to run their country.  So I shall not presume to say how the current human rights debate in this country should be resolved.  But perhaps I may contribute [...]

Human Rights Law, Advocacy and Campaigning Training (July/August 2008)

In July and August 2008, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre ran a Human Rights Law, Advocacy and Campaigning Program. The training was intended for lawyers, advocates and workers in community legal centres, private law firms, Victoria Legal Aid, community organisations and NGOs with an interest in using human rights law in casework, advocacy and campaigning. [...]

The Hon Rob McClelland (Commonwealth Attorney-General) – ‘Strengthening Human Rights and the Rule of Law’, Speech to HRLRC (7 August 2008)

On 7 August 2008, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre hosted a seminar with the federal Attorney-General at which he delivered a paper entitled, ‘Strengthening Human Rights and the Rule of Law’. The speech included a number of significant human rights announcements, including that: The Government is issuing a standing open invitation to the Special Procedures of [...]

The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC – ‘Human Rights, Lawyers and the War on Terror’, Speech to Human Rights Law resource Centre (August 2008)

The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC, former Prime Minister of Australia, Speech to HRLRC on Torture Team: Human Rights, Lawyers and the War on Terror (Aug 2008).

Tom Calma – ‘Indigenous Rights and the Debate over a Charter of Rights in Australia’, Speech to Human Rights Law Resource Centre Annual Dinner (4 April 2008)

Tom Calma (National Race Commissioner and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner), ‘Indigenous Rights and the Debate over a Charter of Rights in Australia’, Speech to Human Rights Law Resource Centre Annual Dinner, 4 April 2008.  

Sir Gerard Brennan – ‘The Constitution, Good Government and Human Rights’, Paper delivered at Human Rights Law Resource Centre Seminar (12 March 2008)

Sir Gerard Brennan, ‘The Constitution, Good Government and Human Rights’, Paper delivered at Human Rights Law Resource Centre Seminar, Melbourne, 12 March 2008.