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[un]Civil Liberties: the retraction of civil liberties and its impact on democracy |
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The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice’s third Monthly Forum will feature Anne O'Rourke (Liberty Victoria) and Greg Barns
(Rights Australia) discussing the possibility of an ID card, the
deportation of Scott Parkin, the new terrorism related laws and much
more.
How do these things impact on a democracy and what can we do about it?
You can download a flyer for the event here
When: Tue 18th October, 7 pm
Where: Evatt Room, Trades Hall
How much: $5 (ACDJ members free)
Who:
- Anne O'Rourke
- Lawyer
- Currently works as a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University;
- Anne teaches in a number of courses, Contemporary Issues in Globalisation and in International Trade Policy;
- She is Vice-President, Liberty Victoria
- Committee Member of the International Centre on Trade Union Rights
- She has a number of publications in the area of human rights and
labour rights, the most recent titled ‘Torture, Slippery Slopes,
Intellectual Apologists and Ticking-Bombs: An Australian Response to
Bagaric and Clarke’ to be published in the forthcoming edition of the
University of San Francisco Law Review.
- Greg Barns
Greg is a barrister and author. He lives in Hobart.
Greg was a senior adviser to a number of federal and state Liberal
leaders and ministers from 1989-99 and ran the Australian Republican
Movement's Referendum campaign in 1999. He was National Chair of the
ARM from 2000-02. Greg left the Liberal Party in 2002 after he was
disendorsed for publicly criticising the Howard government's policies
towards asylum seekers. He joined the Australian Democrats.
Greg is a director of human rights group, Rights Australia and was
formerly a Director of A Just Australia. He has a weekly column in the
Hobart Mercury and a fortnightly column in the South China Morning
Post. He writes regularly for The Age, the Herald-Sun, Courier-Mail,
Australian and the Adelaide Advertiser. Greg is the author of What's Wrong with the Liberal Party? (2003) and Selling the Australian Government (2005).
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