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
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Phone: +61 3 9903 8102

• Liam Elphick and Maria O'Sullivan quoted, Scott Morrison says business can refuse entry to unvaccinated patrons without falling foul of discrimination laws. Is that correct?, ABC Fact Check, 6 October 2021
• Liam Elphick, Are vaccine mandates discriminatory?, 2GB Radio, 23 September 2021
• Liam Elphick,  Opinion Piece, Here’s why ‘no jab, no entry’ is not discrimination, The Age, 20 September 2021
• Yee-Fui Ng, Regulating lobbying in Australia: Three steps for reform, ANZSOG, 10 September 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, How life might change for the unvaccinated, Interview with ABC Radio, The Signal, 6 August 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, Should freedoms increase for Australians who are full vaccinated against COVID-19, Interview with ABC Melbourne,  The Conversation Hour, 7 July 2021
• Stephen Gray, Opinion piece, Should we revive an archaic law after the Eastern Freeway incident?, The Age, 7 July 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, COVID-19 Vaccine Passports, Interview with ABC Radio, Afternoons with Jacinta Parsons, 14 June 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, COVID-19 Vaccine Passports, Interview with ABC Radio Sydney, Saturday Afternoons with James Glenday, 12 June 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, COVID-19 Vaccine Passports, Interview with Ultra 106.5 Tasmania, 11 June 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, COVID-19 Vaccine Passports, Interview with ABC Radio WA, 10 June 2021
• Paula Gerber, Has the LGBTIQ Community Moved from Protesting to Partying?, Australian Institute of International Affairs, 10 June 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, If you don't have a COVID vaccination certificate, could you be banned from restaurants, shops and theatres?,  The Conversation, 10 June 2021
• Paula Gerber, Global snapshot of LGBTQI discrimination, Interview on the  ABC Law Report, 8 June 2021
• Paula Gerber, It's time to talk about gay reparations and how they can rectify past persecutions of LGBTQ people, The Conversation, 8 June 2021
• Paula Gerber,  The swinging pendulum of rights protections for LGBTIQ people, Monash Lens, 1 June 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan quoted, Wicked Choice in Vax Divide, The Herald Sun, 2 June 2021
• Professor the Hon. Kevin H Bell AM QC,  Victoria's Yoo-rrook Justice Commission,  Interview with the Royal Commission Chair Professor Eleanor Burke on the  ABC Law Report, 25 May 2021
• Liam Elphick, Victoria provides Australia the blueprint to protect queer people from hate, Star Observer, 17 May 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, Ask a lawyer: do I have a right to protest?, The Guardian, 26 April 2021
• Professor the Hon. Kevin H Bell AM QC interview with Ticker News on George Floyd case, 21 April 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan, Open letter to Government to release  refugees in hotel detention, Ultra  106.5fm, 9 March 2021
• Professor the Hon. Kevin H Bell AM QC, Opinion piece, Mental health system faces massive overhaul, The Age, 2 March 2021
• Castan Centre quoted , Vow to end 'ugly lottery' with $1.6b school disability reform, The Age, 8 February 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan quoted, COVID-19 vaccines not mandatory for aged care workers, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces after National Cabinet, ABC News, 22 January 2021
• Luke Beck quoted, The Australian government says it won't make COVID-19 vaccines compulsory when they begin being rolled out next month, but that won't stop companies from denying service to those who refuse the jab, SBS News, 20 January 2021
• Maria O'Sullivan,  Can an employer force you to have a COVID vaccination?,  2GB interview, 16 January 2021
• Professor Kevin H Bell AM QC, Opinion piece with Former Chief Magistrate Ian Gray who support justice reform of rising imprisonment rates, Herald Sun, 23 November 2020
• Normann Witzleb, 83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want, The Conversation, 11 November 2020
• Maria O'Sullivan, Covid-19: Police, PSOs, and the problems with preventative detention powers, Monash Lens, 24 September 2020
• Stephen Gray, Slavery in Australia, Breakfast Radio Adelaide, 19 June 2020
• 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