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03.08.2012
AIFS Conference | Family Violence — the Law Reform Challenge
12th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference: Family Transitions and Trajectories, Plenary Session: Family law/family violence
Read more25.07.2012
ALSA Women in Law Conference 2012
Speech by Professor Rosalind Croucher* to the Maurice Blackburn/ALSA Women in Law Breakfast at the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria, Melbourne, 12 July 2012.
Read more05.07.2012
‘How on earth did I end up here?’
ALTA Conference Dinner – ‘Legal Education for a Global Community’, St Paul’s College, University of Sydney 3 July 2012, Professor Rosalind F Croucher* Thank you, Professor Mason for your kind introduction. It’s delightful to be back on campus and at St Paul’s College — a very elegant place. It is the oldest residential college at …
Read more02.07.2012
Celebrating NAIDOC week 2012
They dared to challenge – this year’s theme celebrates the champions who lived to renew the spirit of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in 1972. Forty years ago, the embassy became a powerful symbol of unity. Its founders instilled pride, advanced equality and educated the country …
Read more29.06.2012
Terms of Reference received for the ALRC Copyright Inquiry
The Attorney-General, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, has provided the Australian Law Reform Commission with final Terms of Reference for the Inquiry into Copyright and the Digital Economy. Professor Jill McKeough, Commissioner in charge of the ALRC’s Inquiry into Copyright Law, stated ‘The Terms of Reference ask us to look at both the commercial and …
Read more29.06.2012
Copyright Inquiry e-news | Terms of Reference received
Issue 2 | 29 June 2012 View original formatWelcome to the Inquiryfrom Professor Jill McKeoughLast month I joined the ALRC as the Commissioner in Charge of the Copyright Inquiry, taking leave from my role as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. The Terms of Reference we received today set an …
Read more15.06.2012
ALRC Brief | June 2012
View original e-newsletter format >> International outreach This month has seen the ALRC reaching out to some of its international counterparts in the Commonwealth and Asia Pacific region, through a process of professional development and information sharing. We were delighted to host Kaisarina Salesa, Senior Legal Analyst, with the Samoa Law Reform Commission, for a …
Read more01.06.2012
Age barriers to work e-news | Issue 4
Issue 4 | 1 June 2012 View original format Month in summary Since the release of the Issues Paper on 1 May the team has been busy consulting with stakeholders across Australia—in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney. ALRC President Professor Rosalind Croucher gave a presentation about the Age Barriers Inquiry to the Diversity Council of Australia …
Read more17.05.2012
Grey Areas—Age Barriers to Work in Commonwealth Laws
Presentation at the COTA national meeting, Wednesday 16 May 2012. Professor Rosalind Croucher,*President, Australian Law Reform Commission. The Inquiry The initiation of the ALRC Inquiry forms part of the Australian Government response to population ageing. The Productivity Commission described it as ‘the quiet transformation, because it is gradual, but also unremitting and ultimately pervasive’.[1] The Commission …
Read more01.05.2012
ALRC seeks input into its Inquiry into legal barriers to mature age persons participating in the workforce and other productive work
The Australian Law Reform Commission today released an Issues Paper for its Inquiry into legal barriers to mature age participation in the workforce and other productive work—Grey Areas: Age Barriers to Work in Commonwealth Laws (ALRC IP 41, 2012). Australia’s population is ageing rapidly. By 2044–45 almost one in four Australians will be aged 65 …
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