Program 2019

Zainab Mahboob
Head of Legal at the Justice Project Pakistan, A Maurice Blackburn Visiting Activist

Topic: Opposing the death penalty in Pakistan

Nyadol Nyuon
Lawyer, community advocate and writer

Topic: Racism in a multicultural and multi-racial society and what we can do about it

Ms. Saffaa
Artist and activist

Topic: I Am My Own Guardian: Reflections on Art, Resistance, & Agency

Photo credit: Nicola Bailey

Panel: Human Rights by Public Opinion -  Campaigning for Change via national votes

Lee Carnie
Director of Legal Advocacy, Equality Australia, and Senior Lawyer, Human Rights Law Centre

Shannan Dodson
Communications Manager, Office of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Leadership and Engagement, University of Technology Sydney and Member of the National NAIDOC Committee

Professor Sarah Maddison
Co-Director, Indigenous-Settler Relations Collaboration, Melbourne University

Rosemary Kayess
Senior Research Fellow, Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales

Topic: Disability and human rights in Australia

Associate Professor Kate Galloway
Bond University

Topic: Data is the new black - Privacy its must-have accessory

Panel: Human rights and Australia's treatment of refugees

Katie Robertson
Director of Legal Advocacy, Human Rights Law Centre

Shukufa Tahiri
Refugee Council of Australia

David Mejia-Canales
Senior Policy Adviser, Federation of Community Legal Centres

Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM
President, Australian Human Rights Commission

Topic: Free and equal: A national reform agenda for human rights in Australia for the next decade

Professor Sarah Joseph
Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Topic: Australia's human rights exceptionalism