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Sandy Duncanson Memorial Lecture Housing and human rights 鈥 rights where it matters Hobart, 11 October 2022 Abstract Homelessness can happen to anyone. People with disability are at an increased risk and they are joined by a growing invisible cohort of older women. COVID-19 was a trigger for state...
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Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement, Alysia Blackham (2022) Panel discussion Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM President, 黑料情报站 I am speaking today from the traditional lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples and pay my respects to...
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The 黑料情报站: promoting and protecting human rights in Australia St Andrew鈥檚 College, University of Sydney, 14 July 2022 Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FAAL Abstract This presentation explores the role of the 黑料情报站 in the context of the...
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Thank you to the Lyceum Club for inviting me to speak, and to Christine Yeats and Judith White for your warm introduction. I recall that for my late mother, Dr Amy McGrath OAM, the revival of the Sydney Lyceum Club was very special. In sorting through papers of my parents, following the passing of...
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As I reflect on the past two years, it is clear that the pandemic has brought a renewed national focus on the importance of centralising considering rights and freedoms during times of crisis 鈥 a greater 鈥榬ights consciousness鈥.
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Affinity Intercultural Foundation, NSW Parliament House 13th Friendship and Dialogue Iftar Dinner Wednesday 13 April 2022 Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM As-salamu alaykum: may peace be upon you. Acknowledgements Our Parliamentary hosts, distinguished guests, of whom there are indeed many...
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OPINION There is almost 13,000km between Australia and Ukraine. It is literally on the other side of the world. Given the vast distances that separate us, it would be easy to claim that what happens there has nothing to do with us. That Australia should focus instead on the many challenges we...
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Novak Djokovic鈥檚 recent detention at Melbourne鈥檚 Park Hotel drew international attention to Australia鈥檚 use of hotels as Alternative Places of Detention by immigration authorities. But while Djokovic鈥檚 detention was measured in days, others still remaining in the Park Hotel measure their detention...
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OPINION With the McGowan Government announcing earlier this week that the Western Australian hard border will ease on February 5, 2022, Australia is inching ever closer to border closures becoming a thing of the past. But while many of us would like this to be true, it is important to realise that...
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The catalyst of a pandemic Women in Property lunch Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM Acknowledgement Thank you to the Property Council for inviting me to speak to you today鈥攁nd particularly Jane Fitzgerald whose idea it was. Let me begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land...
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OPINION November 18, 2021 Ronald Reagan famously said that 鈥渇reedom is a fragile thing and it鈥檚 never more than one generation away from extinction鈥. For many Australians, until recently, freedom has been something we have largely been able to take for granted in our daily lives. But with millions...
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The 黑料情报站鈥檚 role in protecting human rights in Australia Sir Ronald Wilson Lecture 2021 Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM President, 黑料情报站 Acknowledgements Thank you Matthew McGuire for your welcome to country and Kendra Turner as MC. I...
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The travel ban on Australian citizens returning from India, accompanied by criminal sanctions under the Biosecurity Act, raises serious human rights concerns. The Commission supports the continuation of aid to the Indian Government as it copes with the current COVID-19 crisis, but the Commission...
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The 黑料情报站 has called for greater accountability to be embedded in laws that extend the Commonwealth鈥檚 power in the event of national emergencies. In its submission to a Senate inquiry examining the National Emergency Declaration Act 2020, the Commission recommended five...
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We鈥檙e all talking human rights鈥攂ut do we have the necessary legal grammar for them? Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM Acknowledgement Chief Justice, Justices, Masters and Registrars, good morning. Thank you to Justice Paul Tottle for the invitation to speak with you today. I鈥檓 sorry I can鈥檛 be...
