The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference
The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference
The leading human rights conference in Australia, providing a vital health check on the state of human rights in Australia and overseas.
Speakers and Sessions
Leading researchers, practitioners and advocates will join us for a health check on the state of human rights. Sessions will focus on First Nations rights; the rights of children in care; truth, free speech and the online environment; and law, human rights and the migrant experience.
Keynote 1
Voice, Treaty, Truth - What's Next?
Rueben Berg, Co-Chair, First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria
Keynote 2
The Rights of Children in Care
Liana Buchanan, Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People, Victoria
Panel 1: Participatory Rights of Children in Care
- Commissioner Liana Buchanan, Principal Commissioner for Children and Young People, Victoria
- Amelia Hunt, Victorian Commission for Children and Young People
- Dr Jade Purtell, Research Fellow, Department of Human Centred Computing, Monash University
Panel 2: Perspectives on the Law, Human Rights and the Migrant Experience
- Associate Professor Samantha Currie, Academic Member, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
- Professor Justine Nolan, Director, UNSW Australian Human Rights Institute
- Associate Professor Heli Askola, Academic Member, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
Panel 3: Tensions of Free Speech and its Constraints
- Professor Luke Beck, Academic Member, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
- Dr Andre Oboler, CEO, Online Hate Prevention Institute
- Professor Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Queensland
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