General Notices
1. Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and Justice
As you may be aware, the NSW Legislative Council’s Standing Committee on Law and Justice is currently conducting an inquiry into whether the existing provisions in the Jury Aa 1977 that make Members of Parliament ineligible for service is appropriate or should be repealed or amended.
The Committee intends to hold public hearings on Monday 20 September and Friday 24 September, 2010.
On behalf of the Committee, I would like to invite you to make a submission to the inquiry. The closing date for submissions is Friday 6 August, 2010.
Submissions can be lodged via the Committee’s website at
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lawandjustice
Emailed to:
lawandjustice@parliament.nsw.gov.au
Faxed to:
(02) 9230 3416
Hard copies can be mailed to:
The Director, Standing Committee on Law and Justice,
Legislative Council, Parliament House,
Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000
A list of Committee members, background information about Legislative Council committees and information about making a submission is enclosed to assist you with your submission.
Please note that no one, including the author, may distribute the submission unless authorised by the Committee. Anyone who republishes a committee document apart from the Parliament or its committees is subject to the laws of defamation.
Submissions are confidential until the Committee makes them public. If your submission contains information you do not wish to be made public, please mark it confidential. The Committee will consider all requests for confidentiality, but is not obliged to keep a submission confidential if it determines that it is not in the public interest to do so.
For background information see:
Terms of Reference
For queries contact:
(02) 9230 2193
For more information see:
www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lawandjustice
2. Research Participants Needed
As part of my Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical) at Monash University I am currently conducting some research examining eating concerns, attachment quality in romantic relationships, and mating approaches.
The main aim of the research is to advance knowledge of how attachment theory and reproductive strategies are related to levels of eating concerns among male and female university students. In order to collect data for my research, I have posted an online questionnaire at:
spppm-cf.med.monash.edu.au/surveys2010/cdean/
I would like to invite anyone who is aged 18 years or over to participate in my research and it does not matter if you are not a university student. There will be more information about my study on the website if you are interested.
For queries contact:
cassandra.dean@monash.edu
3. Undergraduate Essay Competition
The Governor-General’s Undergraduate Essay Competition is Australia’s most prestigious civics essay competition. It is open to Australian undergraduate students (including LLB, JD and Honours students) studying in all faculties at universities across Australia and includes questions that are related to law, politics and other contemporary issues facing Australia.
The 2010 Competition is offering up to $33,000 in cash prizes to the winning authors of 2,500 word essays.
Every year the Competition is judged by a panel of distinguished individuals including a High Court Justice and prominent academics. The final judging panel this year is being chaired by The Hon. Robert French AC, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
This prestigious competition provides students with the opportunity to be further recognised for their academic skill, talent and research.
For more information see:
www.essaycompetition.com.au
The competition closing date is Friday 17 December, 2010 at 5 pm.
For queries contact:
jwilliams@cefa.org.au
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