Don Chipp Colloquium

A Bill of Rights in an Age of Fear

Friday 25 August 2006, Melbourne

PROGRAM

Session 1:

'The politics of human rights protection in the counter-terrorism context'

The Hon Duncan Kerr SC, MP
Member for Denison, Member of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security
Paper

Ted Lapkin
Director, Policy Analysis, Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council
Presentation

In this first sessions, The Hon Duncan Kerr MP and Ted Lapkin delivered strikingly different views of the war on terror.

Session 2:

'The role of a bill of rights in the counter-terrorism context'

Professor George Williams
Director, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales

Joo-Cheong Tham
Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne

Session 3:

'Human rights protection in counter-terrorism policing'

Luke Cornelius
Assistant Commissioner, Ethical Standards Department, Victoria Police

Vicki Sentas
Federation of Community Legal Centres Anti-Terrorism Laws Working Group