Forgotten Freedoms Panel Session
ALRC Freedoms Inquiry, Forgotten Freedoms Panel Session, 19 June 2015, Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, President, Australian law Reform Commission[1]Why ‘forgotten’?This is a nicely alliterative title for our panel, but one is tempted to say that the very fact of having it suggests that nothing is forgotten ….What does the idea of ‘forgotten freedoms’ mean in this year of Magna …
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Read moreWomen lawyers and ‘engagement’
Professor Rosalind Croucher AM* at Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales, Launch of 2015 Program, Union, University & Schools Club, 25 Bent St, Sydney, 25 February 2015 OpeningIn this little corner of Sydney, not far from the glorious waters of Sydney Harbour, may I begin by acknowledging the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of this …
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Read moreGovernance and Public Policy
Australia India Youth Dialogue, 28 January 2015, by Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission*Thank you for including me in today’s discussion on the theme of ‘Governance and Public Policy’. As the head of an independent Australian federal Government agency, this is a topic that is dear to my heart. Independence will be the central theme in my …
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Read moreMichael Kirby – ‘The Originals’
To mark the ALRC’s 40th anniversary, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, foundation ALRC Chairman, recounts the early days of the Commission, and the people and personalities that bought it into being.
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Read moreLaunch of ‘Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws’ – NSW Public Guardian
Graeme Smith, NSW Public Guardian presentation, at the launch of ALRC Final Report Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth laws in Sydney on 11 December 2014.I congratulate the ALRC on the publication of this report.I would also like to thank Ros Croucher for the opportunity to make a few comments on the importance of this …
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Read moreProfessor Rosalind Croucher – launch of ALRC Report 124
Introduction and welcomeGood morning and welcome to this important event. I am Professor Rosalind Croucher, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission, and it is my very great privilege to commence the proceedings.I warmly welcome:Evan Lewis from the Department of Social Services, attending on behalf of Senator the Hon Mitch Fifield, Assistant Minister for Social …
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Read moreLaunch of ‘Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws’ – Rosemary Kayess
Rosemary Kayes, Director of the Human Rights and Disability Projects at the Humand Rights Centre, UNSW Law, and member of the Inquiry’s Advisory Committee, speaking at the launch of final report, Equality, Capacity and Disability in Commonwealth Laws (ALRC Report 124), in Sydney on Thursday 11 December 2014.I’d like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land …
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Read moreAHRC Free Speech Conference 2014
Thursday 7 August 2014, Professor Rosalind Croucher President, Australian law Reform Commission [1] TextIntroduction[Acknowledgement of country—Gadigal and Guring-gai people of the Eora Nation.]I have been asked to speak today on the ALRC’s newest inquiry. The Attorney-General, Senator the Hon George Brandis QC, has presented us with a wonderful project. It has two main tasks.The first is to identify Commonwealth laws that …
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Read moreReview of the Native Title Act 1993
AIATSIS Native Title Conference, Living with Native Title from the Bush to the Sea, Coffs Harbour NSW, June 2014 Introduction I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the bush and the sea, the Gumbaynggirr people, and pay my respects to their elders past and present; and to the elders of other Aboriginal peoples and Torres …
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Read moreAn Academic in the World of Law Reform—of Writing and ‘Jousting with Demons’
by Professor Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission*, 31 October 2012 at the Sydney Law School 2013 Postgraduate Conference—Stability and Transformation.AbstractThe process of research and writing, of the kind that all research students are engaged in, is akin to jousting with demons. There are other metaphors one might use—gazing at oceans, walking through mud. But they are about …
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