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PIAC AT A GLANCE
HOMELESSNESS (HPLS)
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) provides people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with practical legal assistance. Informed by our casework and consumer feedback, we also address causes of homelessness through strategic engagement and policy advocacy with government and service providers. View All Highlights. STREETCARE | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE The StreetCare group, established in 2009, brings together a diverse group of people with experiences of homelessness: men, women, young people, Aboriginal people, people with disability and representatives from inner Sydney, outer suburbs and rural/regional areas. StreetCare operates alongside HPLS to promote structural and systemic reform toFREE SPEECH CASES
Free speech cases. In Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Levy v State of Victoria, the High Court considered the right to free speech under the Australian Constitution.. The cases, heard together, were a defamation claim by David Lange against the ABC, and the prosecution of anti-duck hunting campaigner, Laurie Levy, who breached a Victorian regulation preventing him from entering SACRLETT FINNEY V HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL This was a landmark case that secured the right of school children with physical disability to access education. PIAC’s client, six-year-old Scarlett Finney, was rejected for enrolment at Hills Grammar School in 1997 because of her disability: she has spina bifida. Her family made a complaint of unlawful discrimination on herbehalf and PIAC
ANN SLOAN | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
DEEP SLEEP TRAGEDY
Deep sleep tragedy. During the 1960s and 1970s, patients at a small Sydney private hospital called Chelmsford were subjected to a treatment known as deep-sleep therapy. Patients were kept in a comatose state for days or weeks by massive doses of barbiturates. They lay naked on beds and were fed through tubes and were sometimesadministered
JEREMY REA | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE News / Help PIAC build a fairer society and stronger community. Over the past year, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has responded to the emergencies of the COVID-19 CONTACT US | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Level 5, 175 Liverpool St. Sydney NSW 2000 Australia. +61 2 8898 6500. +61 2 8898 6555. PIAC does not accept legal enquiries via the contact form (on the right) or by, email, correspondence or facsimile other than in exceptional circumstances. Please view our Legal Help pages for more information.PIAC AT A GLANCE
HOMELESSNESS (HPLS)
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) provides people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with practical legal assistance. Informed by our casework and consumer feedback, we also address causes of homelessness through strategic engagement and policy advocacy with government and service providers. View All Highlights. STREETCARE | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE The StreetCare group, established in 2009, brings together a diverse group of people with experiences of homelessness: men, women, young people, Aboriginal people, people with disability and representatives from inner Sydney, outer suburbs and rural/regional areas. StreetCare operates alongside HPLS to promote structural and systemic reform toFREE SPEECH CASES
Free speech cases. In Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Levy v State of Victoria, the High Court considered the right to free speech under the Australian Constitution.. The cases, heard together, were a defamation claim by David Lange against the ABC, and the prosecution of anti-duck hunting campaigner, Laurie Levy, who breached a Victorian regulation preventing him from entering SACRLETT FINNEY V HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL This was a landmark case that secured the right of school children with physical disability to access education. PIAC’s client, six-year-old Scarlett Finney, was rejected for enrolment at Hills Grammar School in 1997 because of her disability: she has spina bifida. Her family made a complaint of unlawful discrimination on herbehalf and PIAC
ANN SLOAN | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
DEEP SLEEP TRAGEDY
Deep sleep tragedy. During the 1960s and 1970s, patients at a small Sydney private hospital called Chelmsford were subjected to a treatment known as deep-sleep therapy. Patients were kept in a comatose state for days or weeks by massive doses of barbiturates. They lay naked on beds and were fed through tubes and were sometimesadministered
JEREMY REA | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
CONTACT US | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Level 5, 175 Liverpool St. Sydney NSW 2000 Australia. +61 2 8898 6500. +61 2 8898 6555. PIAC does not accept legal enquiries via the contact form (on the right) or by, email, correspondence or facsimile other than in exceptional circumstances. Please view our Legal Help pages for more information. STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
HPLS LAWYER RESOURCES HPLS lawyer resources. HPLS lawyers and staff from the Mission Australia Centre, Surry Hills. Volunteer lawyers can find a wealth of information about HPLS and the areas we practice in at the HPLS wiki. You can also find HPLS stationery, our practice manual, forms, and training calendar at the wiki. Lawyers are given login details at our POLICING IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES Policing in Aboriginal communities. PIAC’s Indigenous Justice Project, generously supported by law firm Allens, has sought to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in detention through strategic litigation in relation to police powers. PIAC challenges police practice in dealing with Aboriginal and HPLS CLINIC TIMES & LOCATIONS Wednesday 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (Fortnightly) Haymarket Centre. 137 – 139 Regent St. Chippendale. By appointment, call 9698 0555 to make a booking. Wednesday 11.30 am – 1 pm. Parramatta Mission, 119 Macquarie Street. Parramatta. Wednesday 11 am – 1 pm. ANN SLOAN | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
DANIELA GAVSHON
Program Director, Truth and Accountability. +61 2 8898 6548. Contact Daniela Gavshon. Daniela has worked at PIAC since April 2013. Daniela is the Program Director of PIAC’s Truth and Accountability program and designs and leads the organisation’s transitional justice work. This includes PIAC’s current project, the Conflict Mapping andALASTAIR LAWRIE
Alastair has been the Senior Policy Officer at PIAC since June 2017. He works across a range of PIAC’s projects. This includes a major focus on anti-discrimination law reform (with past projects on the Religious Freedom Review and the issue of discrimination against LGBT students and teachers by religious schools, and a current project on modernising the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)).MICHELLE COHEN
Principal Solicitor. +61 2 8898 6535. Contact Michelle Cohen. Michelle has been a Senior Solicitor at PIAC since 2014. Michelle has over 12 years experience working a lawyer in NSW, Queensland and Victoria in areas including discrimination and human rights, JEREMY REA | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE News / Help PIAC build a fairer society and stronger community. Over the past year, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has responded to the emergencies of the COVID-19 STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
HOMELESSNESS (HPLS)
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) provides people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with practical legal assistance. Informed by our casework and consumer feedback, we also address causes of homelessness through strategic engagement and policy advocacy with government and service providers. View All Highlights. STREETCARE | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE The StreetCare group, established in 2009, brings together a diverse group of people with experiences of homelessness: men, women, young people, Aboriginal people, people with disability and representatives from inner Sydney, outer suburbs and rural/regional areas. StreetCare operates alongside HPLS to promote structural and systemic reform to HPLS LAWYER RESOURCES HPLS lawyer resources. HPLS lawyers and staff from the Mission Australia Centre, Surry Hills. Volunteer lawyers can find a wealth of information about HPLS and the areas we practice in at the HPLS wiki. You can also find HPLS stationery, our practice manual, forms, and training calendar at the wiki. Lawyers are given login details at ourDANIELA GAVSHON
Program Director, Truth and Accountability. +61 2 8898 6548. Contact Daniela Gavshon. Daniela has worked at PIAC since April 2013. Daniela is the Program Director of PIAC’s Truth and Accountability program and designs and leads the organisation’s transitional justice work. This includes PIAC’s current project, the Conflict Mapping and SACRLETT FINNEY V HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL This was a landmark case that secured the right of school children with physical disability to access education. PIAC’s client, six-year-old Scarlett Finney, was rejected for enrolment at Hills Grammar School in 1997 because of her disability: she has spina bifida. Her family made a complaint of unlawful discrimination on herbehalf and PIAC
ALASTAIR LAWRIE
Alastair has been the Senior Policy Officer at PIAC since June 2017. He works across a range of PIAC’s projects. This includes a major focus on anti-discrimination law reform (with past projects on the Religious Freedom Review and the issue of discrimination against LGBT students and teachers by religious schools, and a current project on modernising the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)).ELLEN TILBURY
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
GRAEME INNES
Graeme Innes AM, the (then) Disability Discrimination Commissioner, sued RailCorp in his private capacity – following two years of complaints and unsuccessful representations to the relevant Minister and Department to provide appropriate on-train announcements. Mr Innes, who is blind, alleged that Railcorp failed to make audibleannouncements
PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE News / Help PIAC build a fairer society and stronger community. Over the past year, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has responded to the emergencies of the COVID-19 STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
HOMELESSNESS (HPLS)
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) provides people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with practical legal assistance. Informed by our casework and consumer feedback, we also address causes of homelessness through strategic engagement and policy advocacy with government and service providers. View All Highlights. STREETCARE | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE The StreetCare group, established in 2009, brings together a diverse group of people with experiences of homelessness: men, women, young people, Aboriginal people, people with disability and representatives from inner Sydney, outer suburbs and rural/regional areas. StreetCare operates alongside HPLS to promote structural and systemic reform to HPLS LAWYER RESOURCES HPLS lawyer resources. HPLS lawyers and staff from the Mission Australia Centre, Surry Hills. Volunteer lawyers can find a wealth of information about HPLS and the areas we practice in at the HPLS wiki. You can also find HPLS stationery, our practice manual, forms, and training calendar at the wiki. Lawyers are given login details at ourDANIELA GAVSHON
Program Director, Truth and Accountability. +61 2 8898 6548. Contact Daniela Gavshon. Daniela has worked at PIAC since April 2013. Daniela is the Program Director of PIAC’s Truth and Accountability program and designs and leads the organisation’s transitional justice work. This includes PIAC’s current project, the Conflict Mapping and SACRLETT FINNEY V HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL This was a landmark case that secured the right of school children with physical disability to access education. PIAC’s client, six-year-old Scarlett Finney, was rejected for enrolment at Hills Grammar School in 1997 because of her disability: she has spina bifida. Her family made a complaint of unlawful discrimination on herbehalf and PIAC
ALASTAIR LAWRIE
Alastair has been the Senior Policy Officer at PIAC since June 2017. He works across a range of PIAC’s projects. This includes a major focus on anti-discrimination law reform (with past projects on the Religious Freedom Review and the issue of discrimination against LGBT students and teachers by religious schools, and a current project on modernising the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)).ELLEN TILBURY
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
GRAEME INNES
Graeme Innes AM, the (then) Disability Discrimination Commissioner, sued RailCorp in his private capacity – following two years of complaints and unsuccessful representations to the relevant Minister and Department to provide appropriate on-train announcements. Mr Innes, who is blind, alleged that Railcorp failed to make audibleannouncements
STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
MEDIA RELEASES
Energy + Water / Energy rule-maker rejects rent-seeking bid, protects consumers. Energy consumer advocate, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, strongly supports the Australian energy rule-maker’s decision to reject a request from 4 Feb 2021. POLICING IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES Policing in Aboriginal communities. PIAC’s Indigenous Justice Project, generously supported by law firm Allens, has sought to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in detention through strategic litigation in relation to police powers. PIAC challenges police practice in dealing with Aboriginal andEMMA BASTABLE
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
EXAMPLES OF TRAVEL AND INCOME PROTECTION INSURANCE Insurer: Wording of exclusion: Nomad: We won’t pay for costs arising in any way from: 15. Any mental illness as defined by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), whether or not the condition arises independently or is secondary to other medical conditions, including but not limited to: dementia, depression, anxiety, stress, or other mental or nervous conditionsCRAIG MEMERY
Program Director, Energy + Water Consumers’ Advocacy Program. +61 2 8898 6522. Contact Craig Memery. Craig Memery has represented energy users for the last decade, and now leads the Energy and Water Consumer Advocacy Program (EWCAP) at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. EWCAP promotes access to affordable, sustainable energy and water forMICHELLE COHEN
Principal Solicitor. +61 2 8898 6535. Contact Michelle Cohen. Michelle has been a Senior Solicitor at PIAC since 2014. Michelle has over 12 years experience working a lawyer in NSW, Queensland and Victoria in areas including discrimination and human rights,ELLEN TILBURY
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
IN POOR HEALTH: HEALTH CARE IN AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION After In Poor Health was sent to print, it was reported that the Department of Home Affairs had appointed Dr Parbodh Gogna as the new chief medical officer responsible for the healthcare of people seeking asylum in Australian immigration detention. Based on the Department’s website, it appears this appointment will take effecton 9 July 2018.
DRUG USE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE MISSING PIECE OF THE HEP C Access to good health is a basic human right. This World Hepatitis Day, the Kirby Institute, in partnership with PIAC, is hosting a special seminar that brings together experts from legal, health and community backgrounds to discuss strategies to ensure that people who use drugs have equal, discrimination-free access to health care. PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE News / Help PIAC build a fairer society and stronger community. Over the past year, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has responded to the emergencies of the COVID-19 STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
HOMELESSNESS (HPLS)
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) provides people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with practical legal assistance. Informed by our casework and consumer feedback, we also address causes of homelessness through strategic engagement and policy advocacy with government and service providers. View All Highlights. STREETCARE | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE The StreetCare group, established in 2009, brings together a diverse group of people with experiences of homelessness: men, women, young people, Aboriginal people, people with disability and representatives from inner Sydney, outer suburbs and rural/regional areas. StreetCare operates alongside HPLS to promote structural and systemic reform to HPLS LAWYER RESOURCES HPLS lawyer resources. HPLS lawyers and staff from the Mission Australia Centre, Surry Hills. Volunteer lawyers can find a wealth of information about HPLS and the areas we practice in at the HPLS wiki. You can also find HPLS stationery, our practice manual, forms, and training calendar at the wiki. Lawyers are given login details at ourDANIELA GAVSHON
Program Director, Truth and Accountability. +61 2 8898 6548. Contact Daniela Gavshon. Daniela has worked at PIAC since April 2013. Daniela is the Program Director of PIAC’s Truth and Accountability program and designs and leads the organisation’s transitional justice work. This includes PIAC’s current project, the Conflict Mapping and SACRLETT FINNEY V HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL This was a landmark case that secured the right of school children with physical disability to access education. PIAC’s client, six-year-old Scarlett Finney, was rejected for enrolment at Hills Grammar School in 1997 because of her disability: she has spina bifida. Her family made a complaint of unlawful discrimination on herbehalf and PIAC
ALASTAIR LAWRIE
Alastair has been the Senior Policy Officer at PIAC since June 2017. He works across a range of PIAC’s projects. This includes a major focus on anti-discrimination law reform (with past projects on the Religious Freedom Review and the issue of discrimination against LGBT students and teachers by religious schools, and a current project on modernising the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)).ELLEN TILBURY
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
GRAEME INNES
Graeme Innes AM, the (then) Disability Discrimination Commissioner, sued RailCorp in his private capacity – following two years of complaints and unsuccessful representations to the relevant Minister and Department to provide appropriate on-train announcements. Mr Innes, who is blind, alleged that Railcorp failed to make audibleannouncements
PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE News / Help PIAC build a fairer society and stronger community. Over the past year, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has responded to the emergencies of the COVID-19 STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
HOMELESSNESS (HPLS)
The Homeless Persons’ Legal Service (HPLS) provides people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with practical legal assistance. Informed by our casework and consumer feedback, we also address causes of homelessness through strategic engagement and policy advocacy with government and service providers. View All Highlights. STREETCARE | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE The StreetCare group, established in 2009, brings together a diverse group of people with experiences of homelessness: men, women, young people, Aboriginal people, people with disability and representatives from inner Sydney, outer suburbs and rural/regional areas. StreetCare operates alongside HPLS to promote structural and systemic reform to HPLS LAWYER RESOURCES HPLS lawyer resources. HPLS lawyers and staff from the Mission Australia Centre, Surry Hills. Volunteer lawyers can find a wealth of information about HPLS and the areas we practice in at the HPLS wiki. You can also find HPLS stationery, our practice manual, forms, and training calendar at the wiki. Lawyers are given login details at ourDANIELA GAVSHON
Program Director, Truth and Accountability. +61 2 8898 6548. Contact Daniela Gavshon. Daniela has worked at PIAC since April 2013. Daniela is the Program Director of PIAC’s Truth and Accountability program and designs and leads the organisation’s transitional justice work. This includes PIAC’s current project, the Conflict Mapping and SACRLETT FINNEY V HILLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL This was a landmark case that secured the right of school children with physical disability to access education. PIAC’s client, six-year-old Scarlett Finney, was rejected for enrolment at Hills Grammar School in 1997 because of her disability: she has spina bifida. Her family made a complaint of unlawful discrimination on herbehalf and PIAC
ALASTAIR LAWRIE
Alastair has been the Senior Policy Officer at PIAC since June 2017. He works across a range of PIAC’s projects. This includes a major focus on anti-discrimination law reform (with past projects on the Religious Freedom Review and the issue of discrimination against LGBT students and teachers by religious schools, and a current project on modernising the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)).ELLEN TILBURY
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
GRAEME INNES
Graeme Innes AM, the (then) Disability Discrimination Commissioner, sued RailCorp in his private capacity – following two years of complaints and unsuccessful representations to the relevant Minister and Department to provide appropriate on-train announcements. Mr Innes, who is blind, alleged that Railcorp failed to make audibleannouncements
STAFF | PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY CENTRE Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
MEDIA RELEASES
Energy + Water / Energy rule-maker rejects rent-seeking bid, protects consumers. Energy consumer advocate, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, strongly supports the Australian energy rule-maker’s decision to reject a request from 4 Feb 2021. POLICING IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES Policing in Aboriginal communities. PIAC’s Indigenous Justice Project, generously supported by law firm Allens, has sought to reduce the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in detention through strategic litigation in relation to police powers. PIAC challenges police practice in dealing with Aboriginal andEMMA BASTABLE
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
EXAMPLES OF TRAVEL AND INCOME PROTECTION INSURANCE Insurer: Wording of exclusion: Nomad: We won’t pay for costs arising in any way from: 15. Any mental illness as defined by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), whether or not the condition arises independently or is secondary to other medical conditions, including but not limited to: dementia, depression, anxiety, stress, or other mental or nervous conditionsCRAIG MEMERY
Program Director, Energy + Water Consumers’ Advocacy Program. +61 2 8898 6522. Contact Craig Memery. Craig Memery has represented energy users for the last decade, and now leads the Energy and Water Consumer Advocacy Program (EWCAP) at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. EWCAP promotes access to affordable, sustainable energy and water forMICHELLE COHEN
Principal Solicitor. +61 2 8898 6535. Contact Michelle Cohen. Michelle has been a Senior Solicitor at PIAC since 2014. Michelle has over 12 years experience working a lawyer in NSW, Queensland and Victoria in areas including discrimination and human rights,ELLEN TILBURY
Public Interest Advocacy Centre Ltd. Level 5, 175 Liverpool Street Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia P +61 2 8898 6500 F +61 2 8898 6555 ABN77 002 773 524
IN POOR HEALTH: HEALTH CARE IN AUSTRALIAN IMMIGRATION After In Poor Health was sent to print, it was reported that the Department of Home Affairs had appointed Dr Parbodh Gogna as the new chief medical officer responsible for the healthcare of people seeking asylum in Australian immigration detention. Based on the Department’s website, it appears this appointment will take effecton 9 July 2018.
DRUG USE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE MISSING PIECE OF THE HEP C Access to good health is a basic human right. This World Hepatitis Day, the Kirby Institute, in partnership with PIAC, is hosting a special seminar that brings together experts from legal, health and community backgrounds to discuss strategies to ensure that people who use drugs have equal, discrimination-free access to health care.* Contact Us
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10 May 2021
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