Have You Got That Right‪?‬ The Castan Centre podcast

US National Security Advisor John Bolton gave a blistering speech against the International Criminal Court recently, so we just had to read the juiciest bits out and pick them apart for you, dear listener.

And of course after that, we have our human rights heroes and villains of the week.

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We spoke to almost 100 teachers, school principals, support staff, parents of kids with disability and young adults about educating kids with disability in Victoria's mainstream schools. We also pored over every law, policy and practice that affected education for kids with disability, then we wrote a report with over 30 recommendations for how the Victorian government can do things (vastly) better. If a 100-page report seems a bit daunting, join us for a 30 minute primer on what we found.

Here's the link to the final report: https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/file/0016/1412170/Castan-Centre-Improving-Educational-Outcomes-for-Students-with-Disability.pdf
Here's the Age's front page article on our report: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/it-was-heartbreaking-the-discrimination-in-our-schools-20180628-p4zobh.html
Here's our op ed in the Age on the single biggest challenge for the Victorian government: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/why-school-autonomy-is-hurting-children-with-disability-20180709-p4zqdy.html

In this episode, Tania Penovic and Eleanor Jenkin join Marius to chat about the United Nations and its many and varied functions, with a particular focus on its human rights role. They also tell us their human rights hero or villain of the week.

In this episode, Marius, Maria O'Sullivan and Tania Penovic recount the history of offshore processing and explain how we got to the point where refugees are starving on Manus Island. In an act of cognitive dissonance all to common with human rights lawyers, they also perform an act of cognitive dissonance by combining this extremely depressing topic with a celebration of Australia's vote to legalise marriage equality.

Associate Professor Patrick Emerton joins us for his first stint on the podcast to discuss the Australian High Court's recent decision on Tasmania's "anti-protest" law.

For the episode notes, head to: http://www.haveyougotthatright.com/the-podcast/

Marius, Melissa and Castan Centre Deputy Director Professor Paula Gerber discuss the same-sex marriage survey.

They have a look at what other countries are doing, the challenge brought in the high court to the survey and what happens after the results of the survey are in.