2008

•Changing Australia’s Human Rights Culture address to W(h)ither Human Rights?.The 25th Annual Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, The University of Sydney, 10-12 December

•Sixty years of Human Rights in On Line Opinion. Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate; published on 10 December

•Submission (and oral evidence) to Inquiry into Immigration Detention in Australia by the Joint Standing Committee on Migration, Sydney, 24 October

•Mental Health and Human Rights. Address to the Anglicare Canberra Goulbourn Litmus Program Launch, Canberra, 9 October

•Mental Health, Human Rights and Inclusive Workplace in a Multicultural Australia. Keynote address to the “Opportunities not Vulnerabilities; An Australian Agenda for Social Inclusion” Anglicare Australia Conference. Sydney 2 September

•Abusing the Olympic Spirit in On Line Opinion. Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate; published on 25 July

•Human Rights And The Beijing Olympic. Keynote address delivered at The Activating Human Rights and Peace International Conference Byron Bay, 1-4 July

•An absence of human rights: Children in Immigration Detention. Keynote at the Human Rights Law and Policy Conference, Melbourne, 16 – 17 June

•The Beijing Olympics and Human Rights. Address to The International Forum: Human Rights in China and 2008 Olympics, in Taipei, Taiwan, 21 February

2007

•Mental Health, Human Rights and Minorities in Australia. Keynote to the Conference on Cultural Approaches to Health Care: Exploring Mental Health and Wellbeing at Bankstown Campus, University of Western Sydney, 28 November

•Australian Citizenship and Prejudice. Paper presented at the Immigrants as Citizens: Trans Nationalism and Incorporation as Future Directions in Turkish Relations with Australia, Europe and North America Conference, The University of Sydney, 6 October

•Why We Need an Australian Bill of Rights Now, pp. 22-25 in Just Policy. A Journal of Australian Social Policy, Issue 43, April

•Protecting Democracy in Australia , pp.30-31 in Independent Education, Vol. 37/1, March

•Human Rights and Mental Health , pp. 55-62 in New Paradigm. The Australian Journal of Psychological Rehabilitation. Special Issue, March

•Access, Inclusion and Success: Muslim Students in Australian Universities conference papers co-edited jointly with A/Prof. Joseph Zajda, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Political Crossroads, pp. 33-37 volume 14, Number 1

•What Kind of Australia Do We Want?, ACTU Journal, Melbourne

2006

•Social Work and Changing the National Agenda. Inaugural Alumni Lecture to The University of Western Australia Social Work Alumni Fund, 27 July, Perth

•How Human Rights are protected in Australia? presented at the Law Faculty, University of Warsaw, 15 March, Warsaw

•Human Rights and Mental Health in Australia address presented at the International Seminar ‘Making the Connection: Human Rights and Mental Health”, the British Council, 5-8 March, Edinburgh

•The Australian System of Protection of Rights of People with Disabilities – the Laws and Practices keynote presented at the National Conference on Disabled Rights, Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka, 22-24 February, Colombo