Human Rights Act - Events - Seminars and Consultation Workshops

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Events : Seminar Series

During the National Consultation, the Commission held a series of seminars to encourage debate about whether Australia should have a Human Rights Act. These included:

• 19 May 2009 , Melbourne A Human Rights Act for Australia: Dispelling the Myths A free public lecture by the Hon Catherine Branson QC, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. Venue: Melbourne Law School

• 26 March 2009, Brisbane What's in it for Women? Women and Human Rights Protection in Australia . Hosted by Elizabeth Broderick, Sex Discrimination Commissioner and the Queensland Working Women's Service

• 5 March 2009: A Human Rights Act, the courts and the Constitution, presented by The Hon Michael McHugh AC, QC. Download The Hon Michael McHugh AC, QC's paper in Word Download Audio (mp3, 60 minutes, 57 M

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• 17 February 2009: The UK Human Rights Act as a ‘parliamentary model' of rights protection: lessons for Australia, presented by Murray Hunt - Legal Advisor to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights.

• 11 December 2008 : Lord Bingham of Cornhill, ‘Human Rights, Equality and Fundamental Freedoms: What Difference does a Human Rights Act Make?'

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