Commemoration of the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Queensland 1922 - 2022

An event to celebrate the 100 years since the abolition of the death penalty in 1922.

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You are welcome to attend all or any of the three sessions, in person or via Zoom.

Session Information

Arrival: 10.30 am

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Session 1 11:00 - 12.45

Welcome by Hon Joe Kelly, Deputy Speaker and Stephen Keim SC. Acknowledgement of country by Marjorie Elworthy.

Keynote address by Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG.

Lunch 12:45-1:30

Session 2 1:30 - 4.15

1.30 Parliamentarians and Opposing the Death Penalty, facilitated by former MHR Chris Hayes, panel includes Senator Dean Smith, Graham Perrett MHR, Peter Russo MP, Robbie Katter MP.

2:45 At the Coalface of Fighting State Sanctioned Killing, facilitated by Assoc. Professor Mai Sato of Eleos Justice, Monash University, panel by Zoom: Kirsten Han, independent journalist and activist, Singapore, Dobby Chew, Executive Coordinator, Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, Malaysia, and Zaman Ashraf, Human Rights Defender, Bangladesh.

Afternoon tea 4:15-4:45

Session 3 4:45 - 8.30

4.45 Life, Death and the Law - Queensland 1922, presented by the TJ Ryan Foundation. Facilitated by Mary Crawford AM, speakers: Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, Professor Mark Finnane, Peter Roney QC and Hon Dean Wells.

Drinks and Book Launch 6:30 - 8:30
Launch by Kerry O'Brien, journalist and author, of the new edition of The Penalty is Death, edited by Barry Jones AC, the seminal anti-death penalty text from 1968.

Auction of a photographic portrait of Barry Jones AC by the famed Australian photographer, Bill Henson. All proceeds to Capital Punishment Justice Project.

Speakers include Kerry O'Brien, Barry Jones AC, Dan Rogers, Terry O'Gorman

Auctioneer: Mark "Potts" Driscoll

Close 8:30 pm.

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