Marc Trabsky’s (Director of the Centre for Health, Law and Society) article, “Without more detail, it’s premature to say voluntary assisted dying laws in Victoria are ‘working well’” was published this morning on The Conversation. It responds to the release… Continue Reading
In 2019, La Trobe Law School graduate researcher Nicole Shackleton won the La Trobe 3MT competition on her topic “Don’t be so Sensitive” – the harms of gendered hate speech. About the 3MT® competition The 3MT® competition was first started… Continue Reading
Centre for Health, Law and SocietyLa Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Registration, as a technology and as a material practice, enables the production of information and shapes particular forms of legal relations. In different spatial and temporal… Continue Reading
This piece is all about giving those who haven’t been following the issue a quick overview of the main things driving the public controversy over robodebt. What are the questions that keep coming up? Who is affected? How big is… Continue Reading
Last Tuesday’s robodebt backdown by the Federal Government rightly captured national headlines. In a stunning development, Services Australia has made some sort of admission, albeit of uncertain meaning and unknown implications. Victoria Legal Aid’s strategic litigation has run straight and… Continue Reading
On 25 and 26 September 2019, La Trobe Law School’s Australia-Indonesia Disability Research and Advocacy Network (AIDRAN) will be hosting its second annual International Conference on Disability and Diversity in Asia. The conference will take place in Malang, in Indonesia… Continue Reading
On 16 October 2019, the Centre for Health Law and Society will host Dr Penny Crofts for a CHLS research seminar on her paper, ‘Failure to prevent Harms and Attributions of organisational Liability’. Abstract There is a huge body of… Continue Reading
Last night’s ABC 7.30 report has generated a wave of interest in the three year campaign against the Department’s of Human Services robodebt programme. The reaction underlines that if Australians give two minutes to these stories, they meet the mums,… Continue Reading
La Trobe Law School’s Dr Andre Oboler is currently in Luxembourg as an expert member of the Australian Government’s delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. After four years of diplomatic engagement, last night (Australian time) the member states of… Continue Reading
Gabriel Jacks graduated on May 15, 2019. She is the recipient of the 2019 Supreme Court of Victoria Prize and the Supreme Court of Victoria Exhibition Prize. At graduation she also received the DM Myers University Medal. Continue Reading