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Podcast
Listen to our new podcast series: Rerighting Drugs
The team is proud to announce the release of a new podcast series, ‘Rerighting Drugs’. The series is emerges out of our drug policy and human rights project and explores the relationship between drug policy and human rights from the perspective of experts. Hosted by Kate Seear, the series examines why human rights might matter to people who […]
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Reducing drug-related harms in Australia through a new Reform Collaboratory
With new Australian drug laws required to comply with human rights frameworks, researchers at the GLaD program are conducting a new study funded by the Australian Research Countil to develop a world-first ‘post–human rights’ framework for drug policy.
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Announcement
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Dr Alejandra Zuluaga recently completed her PhD with ARCSHS and the GLaD program
GLaD researcher Alejandra Zuluaga has successfully completed her PhD in human rights and drug policy. Her thesis, ‘Coca, gender and the ontopolitics of human rights in the Colombian peace process’, was accepted without amendments. It received exceptionally positive examiner feedback, with one of the examiners recommending it for consideration for the Nancy Millis Medal, which […]
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News
New parliamentary issues paper on the health impacts of AOD
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care, and Sport has tabled an issues paper into the health impacts of AOD in Australia
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News
Inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence hands down recommendations
The report of the Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into justice responses to sexual violence has been tabled in Parliament
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News
Parliamentary report considers cannabis decrim
The inquiry into the Regulation of Personal Adult Use of Cannabis Bill has tabled its report.
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Report
Human rights and drug policy – launch of a four-year national research project report
The GLaD team has released their summary report from the post-human rights project.
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Announcement
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body
Call for papers and presentations for Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body: a seminar held as a satellite event alongside the Contemporary Drug Problems conference.
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Community
LGBTIQA+ inclusion in Greater Manchester
GLaD researcher, Sean Mulcahy, met with Laura Thomas, Co-Lead of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority LGBTQ+ Advisory Panel to discuss LGBTIQA+ inclusion and human rights.
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Presentation
GLaD visits Hong Kong
In December, GLaD researchers attended the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia conference at the University of Hong Kong.
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Presentation
Are we human or are we dancer?: Reflections on sex, drugs, and bodies of law
GLaD Researcher Dr Sean Mulcahy was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Law, Politics, and Sociology at the University of Sussex
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Podcast
Talking law and performance with Sara Ramshaw and Julie Lassonde
Listen to our interview with Canadian law and humanities scholar-practitioners Sara Ramshaw and Julie Lassonde
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New article
Working with legal archives
Our latest article explores legal archival gaps and using the fragments and remnants that remain to speculate on the performance of parliamentary human rights scrutiny.
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News
Review of the General Insurance Code of Practice recommends reform
The independent review of the General Insurance Code of Practice has recommended changes drawing from our research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C.
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The absent right to health in the Victorian and ACT human rights charters
Our latest article explores the absence of a right to health in the Victorian and Australian Capital Territory human rights charters.
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Submission
Workplace drug testing in Victoria
The Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Committee has recently conducted an inquiry into workplace drug testing in Victoria.
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Submission
Submissions on human rights, gender, and drugs
Recently, the GLaD team have led or contributed to several submissions to law reform, human rights, and parliamentary inquiries.
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Publications
Listening to women during legislative scrutiny
We’re delighted to announce publication of our latest article, ‘Mournful mothers and damaged damsels: Are we really listening to women during parliamentary human rights scrutiny’.
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New article
Parliamentarians as ‘tribunes’ of the people
We are pleased to announce our latest paper: ‘“The tribunes of the people, the tongues o’ the common mouth”: Parliamentarians as representatives when scrutinising laws’
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New article
Tick and flick: Movement and form in human rights
We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest paper, entitled ‘A “tick and flick” exercise: Movement and form in parliamentary human rights scrutiny’
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