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Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Scott McDougall discussed how the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) is influencing the provision of health care in Queensland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ACHLR public lecture on 29 May 2025 with Bill Mitchell OAM HonLLD presenting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Professor Dominique E. Martin will discuss the ethical and legal implications of “family vetoes” in the case of deceased registered organ donors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the first episode of 2024, Sinead talks with PhD candidate Craig Stanbury from Monash Bioethics Centre on his research about the ethics of procreating in a time of climate change. Craig talks about the role of justice in moral tragedies, the rights, responsibilities, and duties of people in their reproductive choices, and how all of us can have important conversations about our roles in mitigating climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2023 ACHLR is proud to deliver its 11th Oration presented by Professor Emily Jackson who will discuss Regulating Reproduction. This lecture will revisit some of the themes of Professor Jackson’s 2001 book Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, in which she argued that women’s reproductive autonomy should be better protected by the law; has there been progress over the last 22 years; or has there sometimes been one step forwards and two steps backwards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epilogue the Learn Me Right in Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) mini-series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ruthie and Sinead are delighted to release a special podcast with the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby who discusses his role in the World Health Organisation’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as well as unique features of the Australian response that enabled the nation to quickly and effectively curtail a public health emergency that was disproportionately affecting vulnerable people. Michael also discusses the importance of individuals to make change in health law, specifically the importance of joining movements and organisations and of simply being kind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Project Manager Penny Neller and Dr. Rachel Feeney explain the importance and success of End-of-Life Law training for clinicians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctoral Candidate Ruthie Jeanneret, our very own podcast host, discusses the role of patients and families in influencing VAD regulation, drawing on insights from interviews with patients and families in Victoria and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Laura Ley Greaves, a medical practitioner, discusses the importance of considering doctors’ perspectives of providing VAD in Australia, including the emotional impacts of being involved as a VAD provider. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctoral Candidate Madeleine Archer provides an overview the assisted dying model in Belgium and some similarities and differences with the Australian approach, and highlights some insights and lessons for Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Eliana Close discusses institutional objections to VAD in Canadian and Australian VAD systems, and how this impacts patients seeking access to VAD, and providing practitioners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Katrine Del Villar explores how the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 prohibition on using a carriage service (i.e., telehealth) to discuss “suicide” and state Voluntary Assisted Dying laws interact to create a unique and difficult problem for Australians accessing VAD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Project Manager Katherine Waller provides a comparison of the Australian VAD laws across the states, and highlights the universal requirement for participating practitioners to undertake mandatory training in the law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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