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<div id="divRpF297839" style="direction:ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Karen Jackson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 12 December 2012 3:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Global Announcements; aehd@vu.edu.au<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [aehd] Human Rights & Indigenous Australia, Refugees & Freedom of Speech & the NT Intervention<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:12pt">Dear all -
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:12pt">Both are recent talks and worth a listen to.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:12pt"></span><font face="Arial Black"><strong><font size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d"><span>1.<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman'">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:black">Human Rights Oration 2012</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d"> (from VEOHRC report) 11<sup>th</sup> Dec 2012</span></font></strong></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333"><img id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="http://www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/images/stories/ron%20merkel%20qc_72dpi_rgb.jpg" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CDD87D.F2393740" width="129" height="200"></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333"></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333">The 2012 Human Rights Oration was delivered on Tuesday 11 December 2012 by Ron Merkel, QC - 2011 Human Rights Medalist, barrister and former Federal Court Judge.</span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333">This year’s Oration was titled ‘</span></b><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:black; font-size:14pt">Human rights – myths and realities’</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333; font-size:14pt">.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333"></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#333333">Ron is widely recognised as one of Australia's leading human rights practitioners with a particular interest in civil liberties, the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples, migration law and equal opportunity. His recent involvement in both the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="border-bottom:windowtext 1pt; border-left:windowtext 1pt; padding-bottom:0cm; padding-left:0cm; padding-right:0cm; font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; border-top:windowtext 1pt; border-right:windowtext 1pt; padding-top:0cm">Eatock
v Bolt</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>decision, which considered the Commonwealth racial hatred protections, and the Occupy Melbourne case, put him at the leading edge of human rights law in Australia.</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color:#333333"><a href="http://fs4.formsite.com/veohrc/form16/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="border-bottom:windowtext 1pt; border-left:windowtext 1pt; padding-bottom:0cm; padding-left:0cm; padding-right:0cm; color:#009dd9; border-top:windowtext 1pt; border-right:windowtext 1pt; padding-top:0cm">A</span></a><a href="http://www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/files/HRO2012.mp3" target="_blank"><span style="border-bottom:windowtext 1pt; border-left:windowtext 1pt; padding-bottom:0cm; padding-left:0cm; padding-right:0cm; color:#009dd9; border-top:windowtext 1pt; border-right:windowtext 1pt; padding-top:0cm">udio
- Human rights - myths and realities (mp3, 17MB)</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:11pt">Or at:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Helvetica','sans-serif'; color:#333333; font-size:10pt">
<a href="http://www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=1530&Itemid=4" target="_blank">
http://www.humanrightscommission.vic.gov.au/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=1530&Itemid=4</a></span></p>
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</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-size:18pt">Maurice Blackburn Oration</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:18pt"> </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:18pt">Dec 5<sup>th</sup>
2012</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-size:12pt">Clare Martin gives her account of how the NT Intervention came about- Clare was NT Chief Minister at the time the Intervention was announced, she was also dismayed
by Alexander Downer’s flippant comment around this. </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black; font-size:12pt">Read/ watch </span></b><b><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:12pt"></span></sup></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18pt"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">click</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14pt">
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:14pt"><a href="http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/mccwr/publications/speeches/maurice%20blackburn%20oration.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1f497d"><font size="3">An issue of Equity: Is it fair
and just that there are 230,000 second class citizens in the Northern Territory?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'">(PDF 122Kb)</span></em></font></span></a></span></p>
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<b> view at</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:'Lucida Sans','sans-serif'; color:#1f497d; font-size:12pt">
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1f497d; font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/arts-and-festivals/community-festivals/maurice-blackburn-oration.html">http://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/arts-and-festivals/community-festivals/maurice-blackburn-oration.html</a></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Karen Jackson</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Director</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Moondani Balluk (embrace people)</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Victoria University</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">www.vu.edu.au/indigenous</span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Respecting Ancestors & Elders of the Kulin. Recognising & Acknowledging Kulin as Traditional Owners.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Member - Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Member - North West Region Indigenous Family Violence Regional Action Group</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#e36c0a; font-size:9pt">Member - Western Metropolitan Regional Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee</span></i></p>
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