In That Case

Joel Townsend

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GOVERNMENT

A podcast about public interest cases which have shaped Australia

06/14/2021

#ITC27

#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 of their criminal offending, the High Court had to the deal with the question: could an indigenous Australian be treated as an 'alien', and removed?

35 min
07/31/2020

#ITC26

#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 fiercely litigated dispute about document destruction by the company.

35 min
04/13/2020

#ITC25

#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 1994, Laurie Levy was charged with unlawful entry into a duck hunting area, and his campaign and the implied freedom collided in the High Court.

26 min
03/08/2020

#ITC24

#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 camp manager said they wouldn't be welcome, because of the religious convictions of the Christian Brethren, which owned and ran the camp. The young people made a successful discrimination claim, and the camp's appeal to the Court of Appeal failed. The case raised basic questions about religious exemptions to anti-discrimination law which remain centrally important, and continue to be hotly contested.

26 min
02/22/2020

#ITC23

#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 group of young people identifying as same sex attracted. The camp manager said they wouldn't be welcome, because of the religious convictions of the Christian Brethren, which owned and ran the camp. The young people, and Cobaw, brought a complaint which ventilated one of the most significant issues in Australian public life: when should religious beliefs provide an exemption from anti-discrimination law?

38 min
01/18/2020

#ITC22

#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 operate. The case was part of a movement which exposed the questionable practices of credit providers, and improved the rights of consumers. The settlement of the case led to the creation of the Consumer Law Centre Victoria, and ultimately to the creation of the Consumer Action Law Centre.

31 min
11/10/2019

#ITC21

#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 in Australia, not knowing he was not a citizen, until his visa was cancelled because of his serious criminal record, and he faced removal. His case paved the way for the increased use of the Minister for Immigration's 'character cancellation' power. Stuart Webb represented him on his journey through the Australian courts.

34 min
10/03/2019

#ITC20

#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 Collingwood. Her passion for football is abundantly clear. In 2003, when she was 15, she showed her equal passion for justice, bringing a challenge to a rule banning girls over 12 from playing junior football.

24 min

5

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4 Ratings

Excellent interviews

09/04/2021

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Joel has chosen cases for this podcast that had such a profound impact on the country, then gets tremendous insights from the players in his careful interviews.

A podcast about public interest cases which have shaped Australia

Creator

Joel Townsend
Years Active

2017 - 2021
Episodes

27
Rating

Clean
Show Website

In That Case