Events
1.The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Present Dr Joo-Cheong Tham
With commentary from Sam McLean of GetUp! “Money and Politics: Why it matters to human rights”
Date: Thursday 4 November, 2010
Time: 6 pm – 7 pm
Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,
472 Bourke Street, Melbourne
RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu
OR 03 9905 3327
Money politics and its regulation are high on the political agenda. Money politics, however, is not usually perceived as a human rights issue – human rights organisations that have engaged in the debate on money politics are few and far between and even then, such issues are rarely seen as questions of human rights.
This lecture argues that money politics falls squarely within the human rights agenda for three reasons:
-Progressive realisation of human rights is likely only to take place through democratic political processes; insofar as money politics undermines the democratic integrity of the political process, it is likely to undermine the progressive advancement of human rights;
-Money politics raises challenging questions for human rights organisations in terms of their funding and use of money to influence the political process;
-Money politics directly implicates two important rights – freedom of political association and freedom of political expression.
For more information:
www.law.monash.edu.au/castancentre/events/2010/tham-lecture.html