Events
1. Liberty Victoria and The Castan Centre Lecture
Date: Thursday 13 May, 2010
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,
472 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Speaker: Julian Assange
Topic: Geeks versus gag orders: has censorship been privatised?
RSVP: castan.centre@law.monash.edu.au
or 9905 3327
Entry: Free
Entry will be by RSVP only (names will be checked at the door).
The evening will be an off-the-record event. No media.
Julian Assange is an activist, journalist, and the editor of WikiLeaks.com, which was founded to disseminate documents, photos and video which have political or social significance. WikiLeaks recently published US military footage showing a number of people – including two Reuters journalists – being killed by a US helicopter gunship.
The website has published thousands of explosive secret documents, including the manual for the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, documents exposing high-level corruption in Kenya, top secret Church of Scientology manuals and the membership list of the far-right British National Party.
Mr Assange was born and raised in Australia. He won the Amnesty International Media Award (New Media) in 2009 for his work on extrajudicial assassinations and disappearances in Kenya, and the Index on Censorship’s Economist New Media Award in 2008. He has been described as the founder of WikiLeaks, although he does not use that term himself.
For more information see:
www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2010/assange-lecture.html
2. The Great Law Week Debate
Witness internationally-respected Monash Law Alumni battle it out with current Monash Law students, over this highly controversial topic at the annual Great Law Week Debate. Grand Finalist of the Commonwealth AAT Moot.
Amit Golder (Law/Arts) will lead the student team to argue ‘Criminals don’t deserve the same human rights as everyone else’, supported by Natalie Devitsakis (Law/Arts), who has been ranked in the top ten of Australasian British Parliamentary Women’s Debating Championships and Sashi Balaraman (Law), a Grand Finalist at the Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships.
But proving this point won’t be easy against the Monash Alumni team lead by one of Melbourne’s most respected QCs David Galbally (BJuris 1972, LLB 1974) and team mates Dick Gross AM (BA/LLB 1980) author and former three-time Mayor of the City of Port Phillip and Kate Metcalf (BJuris 1977, LLB 1979) a lawyer with three decades of experience gained inside businesses ranging from global household names to one-woman micro-businesses.
Overseeing the Great Law Week Debate as moderator is Monash Law graduate Will Fowles (BCom/LLB 2004), who in 2005 became the youngest ever member of the Melbourne Cricket Club Committee and in 2008 ran for Lord Mayor of Melbourne.
Date: Wednesday 19 May, 2010
Time: 6 pm – 7:30 pm
Where: State Library of Victoria,
Theatrette, 179 Latrobe St,
Melbourne (Entry 3)
Cost: Free
RSVP: By Wednesday 12 May, 2010
marketing@law.monash.edu.au
or (03) 9905 2630
For further information see:
www.law.monash.edu.au/news/events/