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The ACT Human Rights Commission are excited to announce a new FREE event they’re presenting in partnership with the Australian Human Rights Commission this April.

The seminar, The Answer is Human Rights, will be held on Wednesday 29 April, 6pm – 7:30pm at Louie Louie (Verity Lane), 50 Northbourne Ave.

The panel will include a line-up of local and national human rights advocates with

  • Australian Human Rights Commission President Hugh de Kretser
  • AHRC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss
  • Canberra Rape Crisis Centre Nguru Support Program Manager Paula McGrady
  • and me.

https://events.humanitix.com/the-answer-is-human-rights-canberra

 

Established to recognise the long passion and service to International Law by The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, this year's lecture will be delivered by Professor Devika Hovell (London School of Economics). 

Disarmament and World Order 

Disarmament is one of those words that can still sound faintly ridiculous - until it is used to justify a bombing campaign. Treated one moment as the residue of a naïve politics of peace, and the next as the legal-political rationale for disciplining dangerous states, disarmament has acquired two public faces: sentimental and muscular. Neither captures its real significance. This lecture argues that disarmament is best understood not as moral ornament or strategic pretext, but as a constitutional principle of world order. Disarmament law allocates permissions, disabilities, exemptions, and burdens: some may possess, some must not, some promise protection, others are asked to trust it. The question is whether that unequal distribution of coercive power can be justified. The lecture approaches that question through debates in legal and political theory about authority, fear, non-domination, and public reason. Against both fatalism and nostalgia, the lecture develops a constructive account of disarmament for the contemporary world order: unequal armament is legitimate only where it is publicly justified, institutionally constrained, and directed toward reducing domination rather than reproducing dependency. 

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026
Time: 5.30–7.00 pm
Venue: Moot Court, ANU Law School
Registration and more information: The Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Disarmament and World Order | ANU Law School

Chief Justice McCallum is once again hosting a Twilight Seminar on 14 May 2026.

The session will be presented by Daniel Tynan SC on "Psychology and the Law".

About the presenter

Daniel has been practising at the New South Wales Bar since 2008. He is an experienced advocate with a broad ranging commercial practice and regularly appears in large, complex, high profile and high value litigation.

Daniel has particular expertise in competition law and consumer law in which he is regarded as one of Australia’s leading barristers. In this field he regularly advises and acts for private clients and the ACCC and has appeared in many of the significant cases in recent years.

He has represented multinational companies, financial institutions and individuals in proceedings brought by various international and domestic regulators involving allegations of cartel conduct, fraud, market manipulation, money laundering and other corporate crime and misconduct.

Daniel appears principally in trial and appellate matters in the Federal Court and State Supreme Courts.

Daniel is briefed regularly in proceedings for and against Australia’s key regulatory agencies including the ACCC, ASIC, AUSTRAC, the AFP, the TGA, the OAIC and the New South Wales Crime Commission.

When: Thursday 14 May, 5.00pm
Where: Supreme Courtroom 3
Cost: Free to students, ACT Bar & Law Society members 

Limited places are available - RSVP here

  • Speaker: Professor Emeritus Simon Rice, Associate Professor Maria O’Sullivan and Barrister Felicity Nagorcka
  • Facilitator: Sean Costello (HRLA committee member)
  • Where: Online webinar
  • When: 5:00pm to 6:30pm, Wednesday 20 May 2026 (AEST)

During and since the COVID-19 pandemic, the “right” of Australians to protest has been subject to significant law reform and litigation. Join us as HRLA brings together three experts to discuss the experience and  ‘rights’ of Australians to protest in 2026, including an examination of the implied right to political communication under the Australian Constitution and the jurisdictions of NSW, Queensland and Victoria. The webinar will consider how human rights legislation in Queensland and Victoria (and the ACT) is relevant including the legislated right to peaceful assembly.

 

Simon Rice is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney. He has recently published the 3rd edition of the co-authored text, The International Law of Human Rights. He successfully sued NSW Police for their treatment of him in a protest in 2020.

Felicity Nagorcka is a barrister in Brisbane, practising primarily in administrative, constitutional and human rights law. Prior to commencing at the private bar in 2025, Felicity was Crown Counsel at Crown Law (Qld), where she worked closely with several Queensland Solicitors-General and frequently appeared in the High Court of Australia in constitutional and other matters. 

Maria O’Sullivan is an Associate Professor at Deakin Law School with expertise in human rights law, particularly the law of protest. Her work has been cited by the High Court of Australia, the European Court of Justice and in a number of government inquiries. Maria has recently published an edited volume on protest with Professor Azadeh Dastyari: International Law and the Regulation of Protest (Routledge, 2026).

Register attendance here

Australian lawyers are warmly invited to take part in Mental Fitness in the Law, a free resilience training and research program developed by Macquarie University.

The training component focuses on strengthening the mental resources needed to manage the demands of legal practice through structured self-reflective writing. This process helps translate stressful work experiences into practical coping insights.

The six-week program involves:

  • an initial workshop to introduce the three resilient capacities that underpin mental fitness
  • a mental fitness manual grounded in resilience theory for ongoing reference
  • five short, structured self-reflection writing sessions to actively build your mental fitness
  • two individual check-in sessions to personalise your learning
  • a final debrief workshop to consolidate your learning
  • research activities (including surveys and qualitative analysis of reflections) in contribution towards the research objective of strengthening resilience in lawyers.

Participation is time-efficient, delivered online, contributes to CPD requirements, and is offered at no cost in recognition of participants’ involvement in the research component. Learn more and register here: https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cTlaDcbs1uJ6A7Q