{"id":3315,"date":"2012-04-30T17:24:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/lawstudentbulletin\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2012-04-30T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T06:29:31","slug":"events-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/lawstudentbulletin\/2012\/04\/30\/events-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1. 1.4 Billion Reasons<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Date: <\/strong> Tuesday, 1 May 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Time: <\/strong>5pm &#8211; 7pm<br \/>\n<strong>Venue: <\/strong>Monash University Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne<br \/>\n<strong>RSVP: <\/strong> castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327<br \/>\n<strong>Full details:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.monash.edu.au\/castancentre\/events\/2012\/1.4-billion-reasons.html\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Public Lecture &#8211; All Welcome<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This special presentation by the Global Poverty Project will explore the issue of extreme poverty, and the barriers we face in bringing about its end. It is recommended for anyone interested in learning more about ending extreme poverty in our lifetime.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">2. Human Rights, Protest and Police Surveillance: a Forum on Intelligence Gathering and Monitoring of Public Protest<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, 17 May 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 6pm &#8211; 7:30pm<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Melbourne City Conference Centre Chapel, 333 Swanston Street, (Cnr Little Lonsdale and Swanston Streets), Melbourne<br \/>\n<strong>RSVP:<\/strong> castan.centre@monash.edu or telephone 03 9905 3327<br \/>\n<strong>Full details: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.monash.edu.au\/castancentre\/events\/2012\/police-surveillance-powers.html\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Public Forum &#8211; All Welcome<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Recent news reports have revealed the increasingly widespread and targeted involvement of state and federal police, ASIO and even private agencies in monitoring groups and individuals participating in public protest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In the courts, a case currently underway at VCAT* is challenging police powers to collect and retain footage of people at protests in relation to a 2010 climate change protest at Hazelwood Power Station in the Latrobe Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This forum brings together experts in law, human rights and surveillance, as well as individuals who have sought to protect their privacy through the courts, and asks:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>What kind of monitoring and surveillance techniques are currently being utilised?<\/li>\n<li>What are the effects of this practice from a democratic and human rights perspective?<\/li>\n<li>What legal protections are available and how adequate are they?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The event is open to all who have an interest in learning about and addressing this critical human rights issue.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">3. Reprieve Australia <\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Reprieve Australia is co-hosting a film -&#8220;A Common Purpose&#8221; &#8211; a film about the death penalty.<br \/>\n<em>Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sydney Film Festival 2011.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, 3 May 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 6:30 pm<br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> Hoyts Cinemas, Melbourne Central, Corner of Swanston and La Trobe Street, Melbourne<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets:<\/strong> $30 can be purchased <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trybooking.com\/Booking\/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=24077\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Contact<\/strong>:   anna.martin@reprieve.org.au Reprieve Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">All proceeds of ticket sales will go to Reprieve Australia and the Human Rights Law Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">25 people are convicted of the murder of one man, 14 are sentenced to hang, one lawyer is assassinated and the other goes into exile. &#8216;A Common Purpose&#8217; is the dramatic story behind a notorious murder trial that marks South Africa&#8217;s transition from apartheid to democracy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Told through the perspectives of defence lawyer, Andrea Durbach, Independent journalist John Carlin, and the accused, the story unfolds to reveal one of legal history&#8217;s biggest cases on the death penalty.  A timeless and inspirational story about a struggle for justice in a country where injustice was entrenched in the law.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There will be a Q&amp;A after the film with Andrea Durbach and Director, Mitzi Goldman.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">4. 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