{"id":1239,"date":"2010-10-26T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T01:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/lawstudentbulletin\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2010-10-26T12:23:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T01:23:24","slug":"events-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/2010\/10\/26\/events-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1.The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Present Dr Joo-Cheong Tham<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">With commentary from Sam McLean of GetUp! \u201cMoney and Politics: Why it matters to human rights\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday 4 November, 2010<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 6 pm \u2013 7 pm<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Monash University Law Chambers,\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne<br \/>\n<strong>RSVP:<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"mailto:castan.centre@monash.edu\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">castan.centre@monash.edu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OR 03\u00a09905 3327<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Money politics and its regulation are high on the political agenda. Money politics, however, is not usually perceived as a human rights issue \u2013 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">This lecture argues that money politics falls squarely within the human rights agenda for three reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">-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;<br \/>\n-Money politics raises challenging questions for human rights organisations in terms of their funding and use of money to influence the political process;<br \/>\n-Money politics directly implicates two important rights \u2013 freedom of political association and freedom of political expression.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For more information:<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.monash.edu.au\/castancentre\/events\/2010\/tham-lecture.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">www.law.monash.edu.au\/castancentre\/events\/2010\/tham-lecture.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Present Dr Joo-Cheong Tham With commentary from Sam McLean of GetUp! \u201cMoney and Politics: Why it matters to human rights\u201d Date: Thursday 4 November, 2010 Time: 6 pm \u2013 7 pm Venue: Monash University Law Chambers,\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 472 Bourke Street, Melbourne RSVP: castan.centre@monash.edu\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OR 03\u00a09905 3327 Money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}