Julian Burnside’s Human Rights Speeches

 

 

Manning Clark lecture 2008

ABC Lingua Franca: Habeas Corpus  and Hearsay

Speech for launch of Refugee Week, 22 October 2006

Jessie Taylor’s speech for Jarnil Khan, at University House 7 August 2006

One Hundred Years on: The Dreyfus Affair

The New Terror: from Guy Fawkes to Guantanamo – full circle in 400 years

"Towards a Just Society - Beyond the Spin"  Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial lecture 2002

Australia’s Treatment of Refugees – The View From Outside. You might agree or disagree with the morality of indefinite mandatory detention, but Mr. Ruddock and Mr. Howard appear to be guilty of crimes against humanity by virtue of their treatment of asylum seekers: see a legal analysis of section 268.12 of Australia’s Criminal Code. 

Authoritarianism in the Name of Freedom

Don Dunstan Human Rights Oration, Inaugural lecture: 26 September 2003

Honesty Matters – Jesuit Lenten series, Xavier College 23 Feb 2005

Hope and Experience: Human Rights in Australia speech to the South Australia Law Conference, July 2004

Human Rights and Asylum Seekers

Hypocrisy and Human Rights  Deakin University Law School Oration 2002

Who’s Afraid of Human Rights?  Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture 2002