In Conversation With Jon Faine: The Honourable Jennifer Coate AO

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In Conversation with Jon Faine deep-dives into the minds of some of Australia’s major movers and shakers as they explore some of the biggest legal, economic and social issues of our time.

Few people have filled as many vital legal roles as Jennifer Coate AO.

Justice Coate has been a solicitor, President of the Children's Court, State Coroner, a commissioner of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and also conducted last year's COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry in Victoria.

Now on the Victorian Law Reform Commission, Justice Coate will share her insights and experience with fellow Monash Law graduate Jon Faine.

Speakers

Special Guest: The Honourable Jennifer Coate AO

The Honourable Jennifer Coate AO has held a number of judicial appointments over the last 27 years, including Magistrate, Deputy Chief Magistrate, the inaugural President of the Children’s Court of Victoria, Judge of the County Court of Victoria, and the first female State Coroner of Victoria. In January 2013, Justice Coate was appointed a judge of the Family Court of Australia and thereafter released onto the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, where she served as one of six Commissioners for the five years of that Royal Commission.

Justice Coate has previously held positions as a part-time Victorian Law Reform Commissioner, a solicitor in private practice, a solicitor for the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria and a legal policy officer in the Attorney General’s office of the Victorian Government. In October 2014, she was appointed as a Fellow of Monash University. In January 2019, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia. In April 2020, she was appointed as the Chair of the Victorian Victims of Crime Consultative Committee. She was appointed to the Victorian Law Reform Commission in June 2020 and later that year appointed Chair of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry.

Interviewer: Jon Faine AM, ABC Broadcaster of the Year, keynote speaker and best-selling author

Jon Faine has been at the forefront of public affairs in Australia throughout his 30-year career. Moderating live-to-air debates on every topic imaginable day after day over decades equips Jon with a sharp mind and quick wit.

He also has a broad knowledge of topics that marks him as a conference facilitator and speaker extraordinaire. Jon is an ABC Broadcaster of the Year and holds multiple media and legal awards. He has also received an Order of Australia and the Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award.

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About the series

In Conversation with Jon Faine features some of Australia’s leading thinkers and doers discussing the major legal, economic and social issues of our time.

Hosted by iconic broadcaster Jon Faine AM, In Conversation is an opportunity to reach beyond the sound bite, take a breath and deep-dive into the minds of some of our community’s major movers and shakers.

Join Jon Faine as he draws upon decades of broadcasting experience to enlighten, to ask those difficult questions, and to have a little fun along the way.

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