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In That Case

by Joel Townsend
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  • #ITC27

    June 14, 2021 · 35 min

    #ITC27: Claire Gibbs on Love and Thoms Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms moved to Australia when small children. Each of them had an Aboriginal parent. They never, though, became Australian citizens. When they faced visa cancellation because…

  • #ITC26

    July 31, 2020 · 35 min

    #ITC26: Peter Gordon on Rolah McCabe's case Rolah McCabe had terminal lung cancer when she brought proceedings against British American Tobacco, in 2001. She did not live to see the conclusion of the case, which soon turned into a…

  • #ITC25

    April 13, 2020 · 26 min

    #ITC25: Laurie Levy on Levy v Victoria From the mid-1980s, Laurie Levy waged a campaign against duck shooting. In the early to mid-1990s, the High Court began to expand on the notion of an implied freedom of political communication. In…

  • #ITC24

    March 8, 2020 · 26 min

    #ITC24: Sue Hackney, Jim McKenna and Rufus Black on Cobaw (part 2) In 2007, Cobaw Community Health Services tried to book a camp on Phillip Island for a weekend forum, for a group of young people identifying as same sex attracted. The…

  • #ITC23

    February 22, 2020 · 38 min

    #ITC23: Sue Hackney, Jim McKenna and Rufus Black on Cobaw (part 1) In June 2007, a staff member at Cobaw Community Health Services, Sue Hackney, tried to book a camp on Phillip Island for a weekend forum. She was booking on behalf of a…

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  • #ITC22

    January 18, 2020 · 31 min

    #ITC22: Denis Nelthorpe on the HFC credit licensing case Consumer credit practices in Victoria were not scrutinised closely until the 1980s, when the Consumer Credit Legal Service challenged the renewal of one credit provider's licence to…

  • #ITC21

    November 10, 2019 · 34 min

    #ITC21: Stuart Webb on Nystrom Stefan Nystrom was born in Sweden, when his mother, an Australian permanent resident, was on holiday visiting her family in Scandinavia. He returned to Australia at when he was 27 days old. He lived his life…

  • #ITC20

    October 3, 2019 · 24 min

    #ITC20: Penny Cula-Reid on challenging discrimination in football Penny Cula-Reid's remarkable journey has included involvement as a player in the inaugural season of AFLW football, and this year, success as a coach, winning the VFLW with…

  • #ITC19

    July 29, 2019 · 25 min

    #ITC19: Corinna Horvath and Dyson Hore-Lacy SC on Horvath In March 1996, police raided Corinna Horvath's home without a warrant. She spent several days in hospital as a result of the raid. She pursued a claim against the police officers…

  • #ITC18

    June 29, 2019 · 41 min

    #ITC18: Alina Leikin on the 'Certain Children' cases In late 2016, following a riot at a juvenile detention facility in Parkville, the Victorian government sought to convert a unit at the maximum security Barwon Prison into an alternative…

  • #ITC17

    May 25, 2019 · 37 min

    #ITC17: Felicity Graham on Bugmy The question of how the criminal law ought deal with socioeconomic disadvantage, and in particular the disadvantage experienced by Aboriginal people, is one of the most challenging in sentencing law in…

  • #ITC16

    April 10, 2019 · 33 min

    #ITC16: Greg McIntyre on Mabo No.2 Greg McIntyre was involved for the whole duration of the epic Mabo litigation, through which a group of Murray Islanders sought recognition of the survival of their native title rights. In 1992, the High…

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A podcast about public interest cases which have shaped Australia