- Lynne Haultain
Director, Victoria Law Foundation
Lynne Haultain was a broadcast journalist for over 20 years, working on a range of programs both general and specialist. She presented breakfast and afternoon radio programs, The Law Report on ABC Radio National, as well as Countrywide - a daily rural current affairs program focusing on international trade and agribusiness. Lynne was the anchor presenter for the ABC coverage of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and a media spokesperson for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006. Since leaving journalism, Lynne has worked at all levels of government as a communications specialist. She spent over 3 years with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission which has oversight of consumer protection, competition and some market regulation. Social justice issues are of keen interest, and Lynne is the longstanding chair of an NGO working with refugees and asylum seekers.
Dynamics of Scandal: On facilitating, denying and covering up institutional child sex abuse
Sociologist Prof Chris Greer explores the often murky agendas of organisations, media, and individuals in the facilitation, denial and cover-up of sexual abuse.
Is the world suffering from treaty fatigue?
Judge James Crawford on the diminishing appetite of nation states to join new international agreements or remain in established ones.
How attitudes disable
Social epidemiologist Eric Emerson argues we've yet to grasp how disability arises not from impairment but from the interaction between health and our society.
Rivers as persons
Environmental law researchers Erin O’Donnell and Julia Talbot-Jones discuss recent moves to give legal personhood to rivers in India, New Zealand and elsewhere.
The human cost of homophobia and transphobia
Psychiatric epidemiologist Michael King talks about the psychological damage suffered by victims of homophobia and transphobia, and spells out what can be done.
Investigating state crime
On the Up Close podcast, criminologist Penny Green on what it means when nation-states shift from protector from crime to perpetrator.
Designing cities with health in mind
Public health specialist Professor Mark Stevenson from the University of Melbourne on the need to prioritise physical wellbeing in our urban planning.
Ageing workers: Old and in the way?
Legal scholar Mia Rönnmar joins host Lynne Haultain for an international perspective on the place and plight of older workers in the workplace.
Twisting the law on the way to the battlefield
How governments contort global and domestic laws to wage war on non-state Islamist forces, and how those forces invoke Islamic law to justify their actions.
Law, science and the forging of “truth”
Social science and legal scholar Professor Sheila Jasanoff considers how science and the law interact or compete in the formulation of public reason.