Past events

2019

10 March 2019

Symposium

Seeking Asylum in Australia – Truth Telling and Taking Action

John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia

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Curtin University’s Centre for Human Rights Education, the John Curtin Gallery and the Refugee Council of Australia invite you to the Festival of Perth exhibition Refuge and a symposium on truth telling and taking action.

Refuge features outstanding works by two of the world’s leading audio-visual artists, Angelica Mesiti and Candice Breitz, who explore the realities of people who are forced to flee their homelands.

With a federal election looming, what do we need to know about the impacts of the policies of successive Australian governments on people seeking asylum? What do we need to understand about the experiences of people who have come to our shores to find safety? How can we understand the role and responsibilities of governments and civil society in responding to people fleeing persecution? How can we work together to realise the rights of people seeking asylum?

The symposium will build on the themes of the exhibition and elevate the experiences of people who have come to Australia to seek asylum. It will also explore the nation’s crisis of responsibility and how we might best work together to address this.

2018

17 October 2018

Academics for Refugees, National Day of Action

Curtin University

An event organised to show support for people seeking asylum who continue to be forced to remain on Nauru and Manus Island. 17 October is a National Day of Action across university campuses to call for the end of the offshore processing regime. It is supported and promoted by the NTEU and Academics for Refugees.

Those that came were there to remember those who have died on Nauru and Manus Island, and to call for everyone remaining there to be settled in safe countries immediately. We also acknowledged the ongoing denial of refuge closer to home, with recent deaths in custody in WA and deportations to danger.

The event was organised by CHRE together with Suvendrini Perera and Michelle Bui.

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28 September 2018

Annual Human Rights Lecture: Presented by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG

Curtin University

The 2018 Annual Curtin University Human Rights Lecture titled “Beyond Marriage Equality and Blood Curling,” was delivered by prominent international jurist, educator and former judge, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG.

The Curtin Annual Human Rights Lecture, established in 2016, is a key initiative of the CHRE. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. The 2017 lecture was delivered by prominent Australian writer, academic and broadcaster, Dr Waleed Aly.

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27 & 28 September 2018

Australian Ally Conference 2018

Curtin University

For full information about the 2nd Australian Ally Conference, please see the Conference web pages.

4 August 2018

CHRE Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, Curtin University

The Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) ran the annual postgraduate colloquium for all CHRE postgraduate students and other invited students who were encouraged to present a 10 minute presentation. Presentations focus on elements of the students’ PhD research.  There were 7 student presenters from Curtin University from various Faculties. This event was open to PhD candidates, supervisors, CHRE staff and CHRE Masters students.

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26 June 2018

Public Seminar: Support Life After Torture

Curtin University

This event was presented by the Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTS) in partnership with the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) and was co-hosted by ASeTTS, The Humanitarian Group, the Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education, the Curtin School of Psychology, and the Centre for Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Detainees (CARAD).

5 May 2018

Speakers Day at Holmes à Court Gallery: Crossing Borders and Seeking Asylum in Australia: Where the hell are we? And where are we going?

Holmes à Court Gallery, West Perth, Western Australia

Speakers included: CHRE’s Associate Professor Caroline Fleay along with Dr Clyde McGill, Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny, Judyth Watson, Michelle Bui, Mehdi Vakili and other guests.

Holmes à Court Gallery, in partnership with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Curtin University, presented: Crossing Borders and Seeking Asylum in Australia: Where the hell are we? And where are we going?

The Speakers Day was held at the Holmes à Court Gallery in West Perth within the exhibition The Border Crossers: Clyde McGill.

In 2007 Clyde McGill began looking at borderlands as they relate to people who come by boat. He focussed first on the fate of a young Indonesian fisherman who tragically died on a boat detained in Darwin Harbour. This exhibition contains his story within a much broader narrative of the refugee who comes by boat –

What are the borderlands? Who determines them and why? Who may cross? Who may not? Who does deliberately cross the borders? Where are they from? Why are they leaving? What are their hopes? What is their journey? What do they bring with them? Are they welcomed or turned back? Do they just disappear? Who cares? Who doesn’t?

The Speakers Day addressed the following –

  • what is the global situation with regard to refugees?
  • what are the experiences of people who seek asylum in Australia?
  • what are the responses of governments?
  • what are the responses of civil society?
  • where do we go from here?

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19 & 20 April 2018

Conference: Disability, Media, and Human Rights: Policy, Practice, Performance

Curtin Perth, Western Australia

This conference, organised by Katie Ellis in the Curtin School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Enquiry, was an investigation of three nodes of intersection between disability and the media. The organisers sought submissions for 20-minute individual papers, 45-minute panel presentations, creative artefacts, sonic sessions, interactive Q&A, workshops, seminars, or short screenings with discussion that was situated thematically within three nodes:

  • Policy: Human rights, advocacy and access regarding media.
  • Practice: Making media as a person with a disability. Making media for people with disabilities.
  • Performance: Representations of disability in the media.

There was also be a screening of Defiant Lives on Friday 20 April.

This conference was sponsored by Curtin University, the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment, and supported by the Curtin Centre for Human Rights Education.

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15 March 2018

Catalyst for Change film screening

Curtin Perth, Western Australia

On the opening day of Harmony Week 2018, CHRE along with MYAN WA and YACWA held a successful event at Curtin University, with the first screening of Catalyst for Change – Harmony Week 2018, and launched the full report from 2017 Catalyst Youth Summit. Also screened was the full length documentary Cast from the Storm.

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2017

15 – 17 November 2017

Australian Academy of the Humanities 48th Symposium – Humanitarianism & Human Rights

The Academy’s 48th Symposium commenced on Wednesday 15 November at the University of Western Australia, with the main program being on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November at the WA Maritime Museum in Fremantle. Coinciding with Symposium, is the annual Academy Lecture to be given by novelist, descendant of the Noongar people of Western Australia and Honorary Academy Fellow Professor Kim Scott FAHA.

About the Symposium

Curtin University was co-principal sponsor for the event (with The University of Western Australia), lead by Professor Alan Dench FAHA and Professor Baden Offord as co-convenors. Focussing on the pressing and timely theme of humanitarianism and human rights, the Symposium provided a forum to address the complex challenges facing Australia with regards to human rights issues relating to sexuality, disability, Indigenous rights, the environment, refugees, and religious freedoms.

The Academy assembled an outstanding group of speakers to present at this important event, and Curtin was strongly represented in the program by:

·        Professor Kim Scott FAHA giving the 48th Annual Academy Lecture, a free public event on Thursday 16 November at the WA Maritime Museum.

·        Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry AO hosting a reception following the Annual Academy Lecture.

·        Elder in Residence Associate Professor Simon Forrest

·        John Curtin Distinguished Professor Suvendrini Perera

·        Professor John Kinsella

·        Associate Professor Katie Ellis

·        Dr Matthew Chrulew

·        Dr Yirga Woldeyes

The Symposium is a national public event, open to all, and brought together a large cross-section of scholars, early career researchers, students, and representatives from government, education, peak bodies, industry and the community. It provided a forum to exchange ideas and collaborate to find solutions on the complex, sometimes difficult, but vitally important issue of human rights. You can find the full Symposium program and registration information on the website.

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15 November 2017

National Symposium: People Seeking Asylum and Higher Education

Held at The University of Melbourne

Organised by Dr Lisa Hartley (CHRE) and Dr Sally Baker (UNSW).

Symposium Overview

Increasing attention has been paid to the barriers to accessing higher education for people seeking asylum in Australia who arrived by boat. In recent years, a number of Australian universities have responded by offering ‘humanitarian scholarships’ to people in this situation. However, under-examined challenges exist related to the retention, participation and success of, and support for these students in their studies.

This one-day national symposium focused on identifying emerging challenges and future opportunities. The format included:

  • a panel discussion of people seeking asylum and those from refugee backgrounds who will share their experiences of studying in higher education as a person on a temporary visa;
  • an exploration of community and university responses to facilitating access to higher education for this group of students; and
  • the sharing of research, case studies, observations, experiences from the classroom, and examples of good practice related to supporting people on temporary visas in higher education.

This symposium worked towards identifying key research/advocacy priorities and the development of an advocacy report, which can be used to speak to these issues (with – not for – students seeking asylum).

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6 November 2017

AAPI 2017 Seminar Series, Seminar 8 – The Pedagogies of Human Rights

Speakers 

Caroline Fleay, Lisa Hartley, Baden Offord, Elfie Shiosaki and Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes from the Centre for Human Rights Education

Abstract 

Researchers in the Centre for Human Rights Education have an ongoing concern to develop new conceptual and methodological insights for the teaching of human rights, specifically from a perspective that values social and cultural diversity and different ways of knowing. In this paper, we will contextualise the role of pedagogy itself as a core method of communication, language and discourse of human rights. We explore the question of what characterises and informs a critical pedagogy of human rights? From a shared position of activating human rights through considerations of diverse identities, histories, cultures, religions, philosophies and practices, our paper will discuss some of the signature pedagogies that have become germane to how we do human rights education. We will highlight, example, how we engage with refugee rights, Indigenous rights and LGBT rights within a critical human rights teaching framework. A key argument posed in this paper will be that a meaningful approach to human rights requires a radical pedagogy that focuses on questions of social justice and human co-existence.

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22 September 2017

Public Lecture with Verne Harris: Beyond Archive, Beyond Hope, Beyond Democracy?

The Centre for Human Rights Education and the Department of Information Studies at Curtin University hosted a public lecture by award-winning South African archivist and scholar, Verne Harris. This lecture explored the role of archive and memory work in struggles for social justice within a frame set up by the questions:

  • What does Nelson Mandela’s legacy mean in South Africa today?
  • Is democracy an oppressive apparatus?
  • Does whiteness still exercise hegemony globally?
  • Is there hope for the human project?

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16 September 2017

Public Screening and Q&A with Film maker: The Borneo Case

On Saturday 16 September, CHRE hosted a screening of the documentary ‘The Borneo Case’, organised by Dr Susan Leong. Documentary filmmakers Erik Pauser and Dylan Williams spend five years intimately following the trail of an unlikely group of activists whose aim is to investigate how profits from the illegal logging that has annihilated more than 90% of the Malaysian Borneo Rainforest have been money laundered into property portfolios all around the world.

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21 August 2017

Young Hopes: Digital Stories by Young Refugees in Morocco and Turkey

The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) and the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) co-hosted a digital story screening and open space discussion event with CCAT’s Visiting Researcher Dr Burcu Şimşek.

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19 August 2017

Annual Human Rights Lecture Presented by Waleed Aly

The Annual Curtin University Human Rights Lecture was delivered by prominent Australian writer, academic and broadcaster, Waleed Aly. More than 1350 people were in attendance at the Curtin Stadium at Curtin Perth, the largest event that the Centre has organised to date. Dr Aly spoke about ‘Human Rights, Populism and the Crisis of Meaning.’

The Curtin Annual Human Rights Lecture, established in 2016, is a key initiative of the CHRE. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission.

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12 August 2017

CHRE Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, Curtin University

The Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) ran the annual postgraduate colloquium for all CHRE postgraduate students who were encouraged to present a 10 minute presentation. Presentations focus on elements of the students’ PhD research.  There were 4 student presenters from Curtin plus a presentation by a guest PhD graduate from UWA. This event was open to PhD candidates, supervisors, CHRE staff and CHRE Masters students.

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17 February 2017

Seeking Refuge in Australia: Contested Policies and Community Responses – Seeking Refuge WA Launch, Curtin University

On the 17th of February 2017, The Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) hosted an event at Curtin Perth titled ‘Seeking Refuge in Australia: Contested Policies and Community Responses’. The public event, attended by more than 450 people, included a lecture given by The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG and the launch of the Seeking Refuge WA crowdfunding campaign.

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2016

10 December 2016

Human Rights Day event 2016, Centre for Stories, Northbridge

For Human Rights Day 2016, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Mary Ann Kenny, Baden Offord, John Ryan and Yasue Arimitsu will be sharing the stories and books that have influenced and impacted upon their enduring human rights work. Join us for an afternoon of celebrating courage in adversity, tolerance and understanding, and above all else—our common humanity.

15 September 2016

Seminar with Josh Pallas, Curtin University

Josh’s presentation outlined the Australian legal system’s approach to determining LGBTIQ asylum applications from a recent historical perspective, and details a number of cases that demonstrate the prevailing discriminatory attitudes of the Australian Courts. He provided an analysis of the treatment of LGBTIQ Asylum Seekers under Australian law through a queer theoretical lens, and concluded that the current approach is unacceptable.

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9 September 2016

Research Seminar with Associate Professor Nina Burridge, Curtin University

Associate Professor Burridge’s presentation focused on how as academics, in their own distinct subjects, courses and faculties, encompass the mission of producing active global citizens for the common good.

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26 August 2016

Public lecture and Curtin LGBTIQ Collaborative Research Network launch with the Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG, Curtin University

The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG visited Curtin University in August 2016 to deliver a public lecture on confronting homophobia in his new role as Patron of the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE). During his visit, Mr Kirby also launched the new Curtin LGBTIQ Collaborative Research Network.

A panel of researchers presented their research, including Associate Professor Sam Winter via video, followed by Dr Deborah Hunn, Dr Christopher Fisher, Professor Baden Offord, and early career researchers including Misty Farquhar, Joni Lariat, and Matt Roberts.

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6 August 2016

CHRE Annual Postgraduate Colloquium, Curtin University

The Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) ran the annual postgraduate colloquium for all CHRE postgraduate students who were encouraged to present a 10 minute presentation. Presentations focused on elements of their PhD research. There were 6 student presenters plus a presentation by CHRE researchers on “Reflections on Research.”

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17 June 2016

Public Talk, Zunar Australian Tour – Perth, Curtin University

This event was co-hosted by the the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts and the Centre for Human Rights Education.

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12 May 2016

Inaugural Annual Curtin University Human Rights Lecture, Curtin University

The President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs presented the Inaugural Annual Curtin University Human Rights Lecture to over 360 people in the Elizabeth Jolley Lecture Theatre at Curtin University.

The Inaugural Annual Curtin University Human Rights Lecture is an important new initiative of the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) and it was excellent to have Professor Triggs as the first speaker for this annual lecture.

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5 May 2016

Our Stories – Our Way: Indigenous Oral History Symposium, State Library of Western Australia

A collaborative symposium that was a coming together of community members and researchers to explore new methodologies for recording Indigenous oral histories. These methodologies recognise Indigenous ways of knowing and empower Indigenous people to record their own stories, in their own way.

Session 1: Oral history symposium with Dr Nepia Mahuika, University of Waikato, Dr Lorina Barker, University of New England, Brenda Gifford, National Film and Sound Archive, Dr Michelle Johnston, Curtin University, Damien Webb, Storylines, and Michelle White, Community Arts Network (CAN).

Session 2: Oral history workshop with Dr Nepia Mahuika and Dr Sue Anderson, University of South Australia.

For more information: Download the flyer [PDF 771 kB].

29 February 2016

Critical Disability Studies Research Network Launch, Curtin University

The Curtin Critical Disability Studies Research Network was officially launched in February 2016 with a keynote presentation on Re-imagining Australia by Graeme Innes AM, LLB, FAICD, Chair of the Attitude Foundation and former Australian Disability Discrimination Commissioner. Graeme gave an inspiring talk about the changes in the lives of people with disabilities over the past ten years and his vision for the future.

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2015

19 October 2015

Public lecture with Emeritus Professor Magnus Haavelsrud, Curtin University

In celebration of Nonviolence Month 2015, the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) hosted a public lecture with Emeritus Professor Magnus Haavelsrud from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology titled, ‘Practicing nonviolence in education’. The event was supported by the Faculty of Humanities and was attended by just over 40 people at Curtin University, including the President of the International Centre of Non-Violence (ICON) Australia, Mr Gambhir Watts OAM, who through ICON introduced Nonviolence Month in 2014.

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8 October 2015

Research seminar with Dr Rob Garbutt, Curtin University

At a well attended event on 8 October 2015, Dr Rob Garbutt demonstrated how colonial-Aboriginal reconciliation was supported by public engagement in an Aboriginal heritage signage project at the Lismore Showground in rural New South Wales.

Rob, a teaching-research scholar at Southern Cross University, demonstrated how the Lismore Show Aboriginal Committee’s Aboriginal Heritage Signage Project, disturbed a ‘settled space’ of contemporary Australia. Settled regions, in the southeast and southwest of the nation are contrasted with unsettled spaces – wilderness, desert and, sometimes, Aboriginal lands. These representations provide a spatial context for embodied senses of self and belonging that pattern the everyday politics. Rob’s paper examined how an embodied, practice-led research methodology could represent settled Australia as spaces of multiplicity, where stories layer landscape in ways that insert a stutter into dominant narratives of place. That is, through the signage project, the landscape was retold as layered, as a place of multiplicities, of multicultural encounters.

In Lismore, rural NSW, western industrial agriculture dominates a hinterland that appears cleared of Aboriginal presence. A rural Australian subjectivity has installed itself and made itself at home. Nowhere was this exemplified more than at the Lismore Showground where the Agricultural and Industrial Society holds its annual three-day exhibition or “Show”. However, through the reflexive, practice-led methodology that developed during the project participants experienced an embodied cultural encounter in the landscape. This encounter between local Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal team members produced interpretive signs that use direct language to transform a settled gathering place into a place of ongoing multiplicity and encounter over millennia to the present. By avoiding reductive representations, the signs produce their own encounter with people and stories in a decolonising landscape.

Held at Curtin University’s Perth campus on Noongar country, Rob’s presentation was organised by The Centre for Human Rights Education and the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies. Dr Garbutt’s research interests include cultural studies pedagogy, research methods and projects that work at the intersections of place, identity and belonging. Garbutt, a bricoleur in the academy, has published in a range of journals and edited books. His authored books include The Locals (2011) and Inside Australian Culture (co-authored in 2015).

(Written by Dr Thor Kerr)

If you would like to listen to Rob’s presentation online, please click here. The presentation is best heard with earphones.

7 October 2015

CHRE Mini Symposium, Curtin University

On 7 October 2015, the Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) hosted a public mini symposium titled, ‘Social Change and Activism’. The event was attended by 30 people at Curtin University.

After an introduction to the day by Dr Caroline Fleay, Senior Lecturer at the CHRE, Dr Sonia Tascon from the University of the Sunshine Coast presented ‘The Power of Images: Thinking Through Films for Activism‘. Sonia’s presentation was based on one of the most often used reasons for using films in the realm of activism, being that they are powerful. For the activist, concerned mainly with the content of the film, this means that films produce an emotional effect that lingers beyond the film, and may engender action for social change in their audiences. For those concerned with film and filmmaking, this power has aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions, and films’ interrogation needs to occur not only for their narrative dimensions but also the style in which the message is produced. This has ethical and political implications, they would say, particularly to do with representation. In here talk, Sonia engaged with this tension as two different sets of demands are made of films for activism, and considered how we can navigate them productively, particularly the murky terrain of representation.

Dr Marilyn Metta from the Department of Social Sciences and International Studies at Curtin University followed with her presentation ‘What does social activism in young people look like? Engaging young people in social change through participatory social research and activism.’ In her presentation, she shared some stories about a new social activism project, Understanding through participation: Fostering cross-cultural understandings in schools. The aim of the project is to investigate the current attitudes and perceptions towards asylum seekers and refugees amongst students, and how to engage young people in crafting creative responses to the issues facing asylum seekers and refugees in Australia and globally. You can find out more about the project here: www.mettamorphosis.org.au.

There was a short break for morning tea. Dr Lisa Hartley, Senior Lecturer at the CHRE, then introduced the third speaker, Greg Watson. Greg’s presentation was titled ‘“This is really something I can do”: Learning about social change and activism in local communities.‘ Greg discussed his research and work with Human Libraries that provides spaces in which people, who may otherwise never speak to each other, engage in face-to-face dialogue about difference, prejudice and stereotypes.

Dr Rob Garbutt who joined us from Southern Cross University followed, with his presentation ‘Human rights and modes of existence‘. The presentation was designed as an exploration for opening a discussion on the topic, that is, of how Latour’s (2013, 488-9) “modes of existence” might engage with human rights.

The floor was opened for questions from the audience after each presentation. You can listen to the presentations from Dr Sonia Tascon and Dr Marilyn Metta here, and from Greg Watson and Dr Rob Garbutt here. Due to technical faults on the day, the presentations on screen were not recorded. Please close the viewing box with the green screen and enlarge the screen with the video for optimal viewing.

Thank you to all presenters for their time in sharing their research at the symposium.

2013

28 February 2013

The People Smuggler – An evening with Robin de Crespigny, Curtin University

The Curtin University Centre for Human Rights Education and the Refugee Rights Action Network (WA) hosted an evening with award winning author Robin de Crespigny.

Robin de Crespigny is a Sydney film-maker, producer, director, writer and a former Directing Lecturer at the Australian Film, Television & Radio School. Robin’s book, The People Smuggler, tells the true story of Ali Al Jenabi who, after fleeing Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, is forced to leave his family behind in Iraq. What follows is an incredible international odyssey through the shadow world of fake passports, crowded camps and illegal border crossings, living every day with excruciating uncertainty about what the next will bring.

With an introduction by Dr Caroline Fleay (Curtin University) and Marcus Hampson (RRAN), Robin presented her award winning book and talked about the researching and writing of this extraordinary story.

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2012

9 October 2012

Nauru Mark II: The politics of seeking asylum in Australia, Curtin University

The Centre for Human Rights Education hosted a panel discussion with Dr Savitri Taylor, Andrew Bartlett, and Dr Caroline Fleay. Chaired by Associate Professor Mary Anne Kenny, we heard the voices and experiences of asylum seekers who were held on Nauru under the Howard Government.

As Australia once again sent asylum seekers to Nauru for offshore processing, it was timely to reflect on the offshore policies implemented by the Howard Government as well as those adopted by the Gillard Government. What were the effects last time and in what way, if any, will the policy be different on this occasion?

The expert panel discussed past and present government policies, their impacts on those arriving to Australia seeking asylum, and the report of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers. Panel members offered their expertise on how Australia joined with the region on addressing the issue of providing protection to those fleeing persecution.

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2011

23 June 2011

Public Forum: The Impact of Detention on the Mental Health of Asylum Seekers

To mark the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2011, the CHRE held a public forum with guest speaker Professor Derrick Silove and presentations from former detainees and ASeTTS’ staff, working with detainees.

Asylum seekers and the Federal Government’s policy regarding the managing of arrivals and the processing of claims for refugee status are once again receiving avid media attention. The impact of the detention experience on the detainees themselves, however, has received scant attention in the mainstream media. Our forum will explore this topic with detainees and former detainees together with presentations from Heidi Kleinschmidt and Marnie Williams from ASeTTS. Our key note, Professor Derrick Silove, the Director of the Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit at Liverpool Hospital in New South Wales, specialises in the area of mass trauma, transcultural psychiatry and refugee and post conflict mental health.

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25 May 2011

Campaigning against human trafficking: An evening with Anuradha Koirala

A presentation by the chairperson and founder of Maiti Nepal, known for her anti-human trafficking drive through her non-profit organisation.

Anuradha Koirala was recently named the 2010 CNN Hero of the year and was awarded the Global Peace Festival Award in 2010. Ms Koirala has been contributing relentlessly to anti human trafficking campaigns in Nepal since 1993. In addition to the 2010 CNN award, Anuradha Koirala is also the recipient of the Queen Sofia Silver Medal and the United Nations Women’s Organisation Prize.

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