In That Case
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In That Case
A podcast about public interest cases which have shaped Australia
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27 episodes#ITC27
#ITC27: Claire Gibbs on Love and Thoms
Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms moved to Australia when small children. Each of them h...
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#ITC26: Peter Gordon on Rolah McCabe's case
Rolah McCabe had terminal lung cancer when she brought proceedings against Brit...
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#ITC25: Laurie Levy on Levy v Victoria
From the mid-1980s, Laurie Levy waged a campaign against duck shooting. In the early...
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#ITC24: Sue Hackney, Jim McKenna and Rufus Black on Cobaw (part 2)
In 2007, Cobaw Community Health Services tried to book a...
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#ITC23: Sue Hackney, Jim McKenna and Rufus Black on Cobaw (part 1)
In June 2007, a staff member at Cobaw Community Health S...
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#ITC22: Denis Nelthorpe on the HFC credit licensing case
Consumer credit practices in Victoria were not scrutinised closely...
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#ITC21: Stuart Webb on Nystrom
Stefan Nystrom was born in Sweden, when his mother, an Australian permanent resident, was on...
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#ITC20: Penny Cula-Reid on challenging discrimination in football
Penny Cula-Reid's remarkable journey has included involve...
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#ITC19: Corinna Horvath and Dyson Hore-Lacy SC on Horvath
In March 1996, police raided Corinna Horvath's home without a war...
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#ITC18: Alina Leikin on the 'Certain Children' cases
In late 2016, following a riot at a juvenile detention facility in Par...
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#ITC17: Felicity Graham on Bugmy
The question of how the criminal law ought deal with socioeconomic disadvantage, and in pa...
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#ITC16: Greg McIntyre on Mabo No.2
Greg McIntyre was involved for the whole duration of the epic Mabo litigation, through w...
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#ITC15: Greg McIntyre on Mabo No.1
For more than a decade, Greg McIntyre was one of the lawyers at the centre of an effort...
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#ITC14: Jeremy Jones on the Scully and Bible Believers cases
Section 18C is a fiercely debated section of the Racial Discr...
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#ITC13: Jeremy Jones on the Toben case
In 1995, new provisions were introduced into the Racial Discrimination Act. One of t...
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#ITC12: Kimberley Castles and Rachel Ball on Castles v Secretary to the Department of Justice
In late 2009, Kimberley Castles was impri...
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#ITC11: Patrick McInerney on the Catch the Fire Ministries Case
In 2002, a Christian group called 'Catch the Fire Ministries' conducted...
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ITC#10: Jim McGinty on McGinty v WA
For many years, there was gross disparity in voting power in Western Australia, between electors in...
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ITC#9: Michael Kirby and Mark Aarons on the 1951 referendum
An extra episode, supplementing #ITC8: Following the finding of the High Co...
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ITC#8: Michael Kirby and Mark Aarons on the Communist Party Case
The banning of the Australian Communist Party, and the finding of the...
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ITC#7: Tim Marsh on DPP v Walters
Politicians regularly seek to constrain the discretion of sentencing judges. Victoria's baseline sent...
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ITC#6: Ella Ingram on Ingram v QBE
Ella Ingram was excited about a school trip to New York City, but experienced depression and was una...
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ITC#5: Brian Walters on environmental protest
From bushwalking, to establishing Wild magazine, to supporting the Franklin Dam campaign,...
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ITC#4: Tamar Hopkins on Haile-Michael v Konstantinidis
When Tamar Hopkins started at the Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre i...
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ITC#3: Rodney Croome on Croome v Tasmania
In 1993, Nicholas Toonen and Rodney Croome took Australia to the UN Human Rights Committee, o...
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ITC#2: Jason Kioa and Michael Clothier on Kioa v West
Jason Kioa came from Tonga to Australia in 1981, overstayed his entry permit, and...
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ITC#1: Stephen Keim on the Haneef case
Stephen Keim discusses with me the twists and turns of the Haneef case, from anti-terrorism laws...