‘Whistleblowers shouldn’t face prison for doing the right thing’
By Natasha Taylor|23 May 2021
The Human Rights Law Centre has welcomed the findings of a Senate inquiry into press freedom to better protect whistleblowers and public interest journalism in Australia.
The Senate inquiry investigated the impact of national security and surveillance laws on press freedom and whistleblowing and was initiated following the 2019 raids on ABC’s Sydney headquarters and the home of journalist Annika Smethurst.
Earlier this week, the final report was published and made 17 recommendations. These included proposed reforms to secrecy and espionage laws that potentially criminalise public interest journalism and a call for long-awaited improvements to federal whistleblower protections.
Norton Rose Fulbright believes that the banking and finance sectors are set to face a “tsunami of regulation”. Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has stated that the Australian banking secto
The Victorian state government has appointed their first-ever judicial registrars to the Children’s Court, as well as two new judges of the Supreme Court, strengthening the Andrews Labor government.
Asian Australian Lawyers Association launches scholarship
By Natasha Taylor|17 May 2021
The Asian Australian Lawyers Association (AALA) has partnered with Maddocks and the University of Melbourne Law School to launch the William Ah Ket Scholarship for 2021.
For the fourth year running the AALA has officially launched the William Ah Ket Scholarship. The scholarship is designed to recognise the historical contribution of William Ah Ket to the legal profession as the first Asian Australian barrister in Australia.
William Ah Ket became the first Chinese barrister to practise in Melbourne after joining the bar in 1904. William studied at the University of Melbourne and then completed his articles at the firm of Maddock & Jamieson (now Maddocks) in 1903.