GLS panel discussion: Refugees and the Rule of Law

GLS panel discussion: Refugees and the Rule of Law

The Griffith Law School is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion of Australia’s policies, their compliance with international law and the challenges they present to the rule of law.

Panel speakers:

  • her Honour Judge Fleur Kingham
  • Professor Penelope Mathew, Griffith Law School Dean 
  • Robert Lachowicz, Refugee and Immigration Legal Service
  • Sonia Caton, Chair of the Refugee Council of Australia Sonia Caton

In recent years, Australia has distanced itself from the major treaty governing the treatment of refugees – the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. In amendments to the Migration Act and the Maritime Powers Act late last year, parliament introduced particularly Australian understandings of the definition of a refugee; excused failure to consider Australian international obligations when conducting maritime interceptions; and introduced a new ‘fast track’ system of ‘merits review’ generally dispensing with interviews for applicants for protection.

 


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RSVP on or before Monday 18 May 2015 , by email lawevents@griffith.edu.au , or by phone 3735 5058

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