Castan Centre in the Media
The Castan Centre's academics are the first port of call for many journalists on pressing human rights issues. Centre staff speak to hundreds of print, radio and TV organisations every year. A small sample of recent media is below.
Media should contact the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law on +61 3 99053327 or email castan.centre@monash.edu, or click here to join the media email list.
Alternatively you can contact James Pattison the Law Faculty Media Communications Specialist:
Mobile (Australia): 0422 506 498
Mobile (International): +61 422 506 498
Phone: +61 3 9903 8102
- Stephen Gray, Slavery in Australia, Breakfast Radio Adelaide, 19 June
- Maria O'Sullivan, Do coronavirus restrictions curtail constitutional freedoms?, ABC PM Interview, 12 June 2020
- Stephen Gray, Was there slavery in Australia? Yes. It shouldn't even be up for debate, The Conversation and republished in the Guardian, 11 June 2020
- Paula Gerber, The Tasmania Crime of Gay Sex, The History Listen, ABC, 5 May 2020
- Luke Beck, Religious discrimination bill backfires on Christians, The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 2020
- Stephen Gray on Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association Radio on the Northern Territory Intervention evaluation update, 19 February 2020
- Melissa Castan, High Court rules Indigenous people cannot be deported as aliens, but the fight for legal recognition remains, 11 February 2020 (with Kate Galloway, Griffith University)
- Luke Beck quoted in The Advocate (Tas), Unions Tasmania fears new laws will not protect workers and people with a disability, 11 October 2019
- Luke Beck quoted in The Age, Fears government's religious freedom draft bill will override Tasmania's anti-discrimination laws, 9 October 2019
- Castan Centre quoted in The Age oped by Melissa Raine, The students with disabilities excluded from our schools, 4 August 2019
- Sarah Joseph, Dateline, Why Hakeem Al-Araibi’s case is a test of world soccer’s human rights credentials, 31 January 2019
- Castan Centre mention in DFAT media release: Australian Statement on the 15th Annual Australia-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue, 31 August 2018
- Luke Beck quoted in Eternity News, ‘What kind of Religious Discrimination Act will we get?’, 5 July 2019
Press Conference: Abortion clinic picketing ban goes to High Court, Oct. 2018
Deputy Director, Dr Tania Penovic's appearance as friend of the court. Press Conference broadcast on ABC News 24
Interview: Anti-abortion protesters face High Court, Oct. 2018
Associate Dr Caroline Henckels on the ABC Radio National's Law Report commenting on pro-life demonstrators, Kathleen Clubb and John Preston who were fined for protesting outside abortion clinics in Victoria and Tasmania under laws
Quote: No Jab, No Play, Sept. 2018
ABC's North Coast quoting Deputy Director Professor Paula Gerber on health researchers register rise in vaccinations following welfare payment cuts
Interview: What legal right does your employer have to keep your opinions silent?, Aug. 2018
Centre Director Professor Sarah Joseph guest interviewee on the ABC Roundtable
Interview: Challenges facing Malaysia post election, Jul. 2018
Conference speaker Ivy Josiah speaking on ABC Radio's Law Report.
Quote: There’s a controversial ‘Exemption’ to NSW’s new abortion clinic safe access zones, Jun. 2018
Deputy Director Dr Tania Penovic's research quoted on the SBS the Feed
Quote: 'It was heartbreaking': the discrimination in our schools, Jun. 2018
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Improving Educational Outcomes for Children with Disability in Victoria referenced in The Age
Interview: When freedom of speech and social media collide, Jun. 2018
Centre Director Professor Sarah Joseph on Radio Adelaide
Opnion: Questioning the Australian Refugee Model, Jan 2018
Deputy Director Dr Maria O'Sullivan on News Deeply