The Scholars Podcast - Conversations with Inspiring Leaders
Media & Capital Partners
87 episodes
2 months ago
Hosted by Media & Capital Partners' Justin Kelly, The Scholars Podcast features scholars from the General Sir John Monash Foundation. Justin interviews the best, brightest, boldest and bravest across all fields of academia, business, science, humanities, and the arts. The John Monash Scholarships are amongst the most important postgraduate scholarships currently available. They are awarded to outstanding Australians whose leadership, talent and vision across all sectors will have an enduring impact on our future.
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Hosted by Media & Capital Partners' Justin Kelly, The Scholars Podcast features scholars from the General Sir John Monash Foundation. Justin interviews the best, brightest, boldest and bravest across all fields of academia, business, science, humanities, and the arts. The John Monash Scholarships are amongst the most important postgraduate scholarships currently available. They are awarded to outstanding Australians whose leadership, talent and vision across all sectors will have an enduring impact on our future.
From Cambridge to the High Court of Australia, Zelie Heger SC shares her career highlights
The Scholars Podcast - Conversations with Inspiring Leaders
24 minutes
1 year ago
From Cambridge to the High Court of Australia, Zelie Heger SC shares her career highlights
Fresh from her appointment as silk by the NSW Bar, barrister Zelie Heger SC sat down with host Justin Kelly to discuss her relationship with the law and the cases that have shaped her career.
A barrister at Eleven Wentworth, Zelie has acted for environmentalists pursued by Santos following a failed campaign to stop its Barossa gas project and represented a landmark case arguing for the protection of transgender women from discrimination on the basis
of their gender identity.
She holds a Master in Law from Cambridge University and a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the University of Sydney, where she was awarded the University Medal in Law. Zelie has served as an Associate to the Hon Chief Justice French at the High Court of Australia and the Hon Chief Justice Black at the Federal Court of Australia, and has extensive experience in Administrative, Constitutional and Title law from her time at the New South Wales Crown Solicitor’s Office,
In September 2024, Zelie was appointed silk by the NSW bar and took on the post-nominal SC – the equivalent to King’s Counsel or KC in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia.
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The Scholars Podcast - Conversations with Inspiring Leaders
Hosted by Media & Capital Partners' Justin Kelly, The Scholars Podcast features scholars from the General Sir John Monash Foundation. Justin interviews the best, brightest, boldest and bravest across all fields of academia, business, science, humanities, and the arts. The John Monash Scholarships are amongst the most important postgraduate scholarships currently available. They are awarded to outstanding Australians whose leadership, talent and vision across all sectors will have an enduring impact on our future.
