2020 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 media for 2020 is below:
- 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
- Tania Penovic, UK Detention-Australian Style, Interview on The Wire Radio, 6 October 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan, Covid-19: Police, PSOs, and the problems with preventative detention powers, Monash Lens, 24 September 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan quoted, Victoria's state of emergency extension has received a lot of attention, but that could be due to parliamentary scrutiny, RMIT ABC Fact Check, 15 September 2020
- Paula Gerber, Mental health, happiness of Australian children among the worst of rich countries, according to UNICEF report, Monash Lens, 10 September 2020
- Patrick Emerton quoted, Daniel Andrews reports 'very productive' state of emergency talks with Victorian crossbench MPs, ABC News, 26 August 2020
- Patrick Emerton quoted, The fight over Victoria's state of emergency explained, The Australian Financial Review, 26 August 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan, Can the government, or my employer, force me to get a COVID-19 vaccine under the law?, The Conversation, 20 August 2020
- Professor the Hon. Kevin H Bell AM QC featured, The COVID-19 pandemic opens the door to solving the homelessness problem, Monash Lens, 20 August 2020
- Normann Witzleb, Data privacy: stricter European rules will have repercussions in Australia as global divisions grow, The Conversation, 31 July 2020
- Normann Witzleb, Interview on data-driven political campaigning on democracy, BayFM radio, 27 July 2020
- Tania Penovic quoted in Rebecca DiGirolamo article, Abortion law change ‘distressing, The Advertiser, 21 July 2020
- Stephen Gray, Slavery in Australia, Breakfast Radio Adelaide, 19 June 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan and Patrick Emerton, 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
- Melissa Castan, COVIDSafe and Identity: Governance Beyond Privacy, AUSPUBLAW Blog, 11 May 2020 (with Kate Galloway, Griffith University)
- Paula Gerber, The Tasmania Crime of Gay Sex, The History Listen, ABC, 5 May 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan, Coronavirus: The COVIDSafe tracing app, your privacy, and the role of law, Monash Lens, 29 April 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan, Is protesting during the pandemic an ‘essential’ right that should be protected?, 21 April 2020
- Maria O'Sullivan quoted, The new powers governments are enacting to stop the spread of coronavirus, The Age, 28 March 2020
- Caroline Henckels and Maria O'Sullivan, Explainer: what are the laws mandating self-isolation and how will they be enforced?, The Conversation, 17 March 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, The Conversation, 11 February 2020 (with Kate Galloway, Griffith University)
- Maria O'Sullivan, So the government gave sports grants to marginal seats. What happens now?, The Conversation, 17 January 2020