The Racial Discrimination Act @ 50 (ed Thornton & Wood): Launch

Speakers

• More details about Professor Dominique Allen, Monash University

  Professor Dominique Allen, Monash University

  Dominique Allen is a Professor of Law in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University. Dominique is a socio-legal researcher and has published widely in Australia and internationally on anti-discrimination law, equality, positive duties, sexual harassment and the role of ADR in resolving legal disputes. She co-authors Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law with Neil Rees and Simon Rice (The Federation Press, 2018).

• More details about Associate Professor Cristy Clark, Monash University

  Associate Professor Cristy Clark, Monash University

  Cristy Clark is an Associate Professor at Monash Law. Her research focuses on the intersection of human rights and the environment. Cristy is the co-director (with Beth Goldblatt) of the climate equality working group at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. She is the co-author (with John Page) of The Lawful Forest (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and author of Legal Geographies of Water (Routledge, 2025).

• More details about Professor Beth Goldblatt, UTS

  Professor Beth Goldblatt, UTS

  Beth Goldblatt is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney and a Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She researches and teaches in the areas of feminist legal theory, equality and discrimination law, comparative constitutional law, and human rights with a focus on economic and social rights. Her current research brings these areas into conversation with climate and environmental justice. Beth is co-director (with Cristy Clark) of the Climate Equality working group at the Berkeley Center for Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law and a member of the Australian Discrimination Law Experts Group.

• More details about Professor Dorota Gozdecka, University of Helsinki

  Professor Dorota Gozdecka, University of Helsinki

  Dorota Anna Gozdecka is a Professor of Law at the University of Helsinki. She focuses on equality, pluralism, and representation, and is the author of Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) and Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference (Routledge, 2015).

• More details about Dr Francis Markham, ANU

  Dr Francis Markham, ANU

  Francis Markham is a DECRA Fellow at the Australian National University. He is an economic geographer whose research focuses on the economic dimensions of Indigenous public policy, including income support, employment, governance and remote-area economies. His work examines how public policy and the institutions of the state shape the distribution of income and wealth between Indigenous and settler communities in Australia.

• More details about Dr Sarah Moulds, Adelaide University

  Dr Sarah Moulds, Adelaide University

  Dr Sarah Moulds is an Associate Professor in Law at Adelaide University and co-founder of the Rights Resource Network SA. She is passionate about parliaments and connecting citizens and communities with law makers and protecting and promoting human rights. In 2022 Dr Moulds was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to explore how to empower young people to engage effectively with Australian parliaments. She is currently the Editor of the Australasian Parliamentary Review and the Deputy Chair of the International Parliamentary Engagement Network. Dr Moulds' career has a strong law reform focus and includes seven years at the Law Council of Australia including as Director of Criminal Law and Human Rights, and as a Senior Project Officer at the South Australian Law Reform Institute.

• More details about Professor Simon Rice, University of Sydney

  Professor Simon Rice, University of Sydney

  Simon Rice is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, and a consultant lawyer at the law firm Chalk & Behrendt. He is a co-author of the texts Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law (2018, Federation Press), and The International Law of Human Rights (2026, Federation Press).

• More details about Dr Will Sanders, ANU

  Dr Will Sanders, ANU

  Will Sanders graduated from the Department of Government and Public Administration at Sydney University in 1980 and began working for the North Australia Research Unit of the Australian National University in Darwin in 1981. His PhD, completed at the ANU in 1986, was on the tortuous inclusion of Aboriginal Australians in the social security system from the 1960s to the 1980s, including the development and early years of the CDEP scheme. In the 40 years since Will has continued researching social security and (un)employment issues in remote Indigenous Australia. In 1995 he produced a consultancy report for HREOC as background to the 1997 report by Race Discrimination Commissioner Antonios.

• More details about Dr Bill Swannie, Australian Catholic University

  Dr Bill Swannie, Australian Catholic University

  Dr Bill Swannie is a Senior Lecturer at the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. He teaches human rights law and coordinates the Bachelor of Human Rights course at ACU. His PhD examines the political legitimacy of the racial vilification provisions in the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and examined free speech arguments in the context of Australian multiculturalism and critical race theory. He teaches and researches in Australian Indigenous law focusing on principles of self-determination, sovereignty and human rights.

• More details about Dr Alice Taylor, Bond University

  Dr Alice Taylor, Bond University

  Alice is an Assistant Professor at Bond University. Her research centres on equality and discrimination and how these concepts are defined and understood in law. Her work is conceptual, theoretical, and doctrinal. She focuses on discrimination law in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. She has written on discrimination based on various attributes, including race.

• More details about Emerita Professor Margaret Thornton, ANU

  Emerita Professor Margaret Thornton, ANU

  Margaret Thornton is an Emerita Professor of Law at the ANU. In addition to being a sociolegal scholar with research interests in feminist legal theory, discrimination law, the legal profession and higher education, she is the former head of a law school and ARC Professorial Fellow. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

• More details about Distinguished Professor Asmi Wood, ANU

  Distinguished Professor Asmi Wood, ANU

  Asmi Wood teaches at the ANU Law School where he is a distinguished professor. He is also a Barrister and Solicitor. His immediate past position was as Interim Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the ANU. He supports ANU Law’s Indigenous Programme and works closely with the Tjabal Centre, which supports Indigenous staff and students at the ANU.