The Samuel Griffith
Society: Twenty-first Conference
Adelaide Meridien
21- 37 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide 5006
28th - 30th August, 2009
Conference Programme
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Friday, 28 August, 2009
6.45 pm Registration and Drinks
7.30 pm Dinner: Chairman: Sir David Smith, KCVO, AO
Professor Ivan Shearer AM, RFD: The Australian Bill of Rights Debate:
the International Law Dimension
Saturday, 29 August, 2009
8.30 am Registration (for those unable to attend the
opening Dinner)
8.50 am Conference
Opening Remarks: Julian Leeser
Session 1: Bills of Rights
Chairman: Ben Davies
9.00 am Hon John Hatzistergos MLC: Parliamentary Will vs Statutory Bill:
the important role of legislatures in progressive social change
9.30 am Discussion
9.45 am Hon Christian Porter MLA:
The Brennan Committee
10.15 am Discussion
10.30 am Miranda Devine:
Human Rights Bureaucracies
11.00 am Discussion
11.15 am Morning Tea
Session 2: Federalism
Chairman: Hon Ian Callinan AC, QC
11.45 am Dr David Bennett AC, QC: Federalism, Chapter III and the Commonwealth Solicitor-General
12.15 pm Discussion
12.30 pm Bryan Pape Pape v Commissioner of Taxation and the Commonwealth of Australia
1.00 pm Discussion
1.15 pm Luncheon
2.30 pm Professor Jonathan Pincus Mutual Recognition and Regulatory Competition
3.00 pm Discussion
3.15 pm Afternoon Tea
Session 3: South Australia's Upper House
Chairman: Bob Day AO
3.45 pm Professor Scott Prasser:
The Virtues of Upper Houses
4.15 pm Discussion
4.30 pm Adjourned
Free Time
7.00 pm Drinks
7.30 pm Dinner: Chairman: Sir David Smith, KCVO, AO
Address:
Professor James Allan: The Magical Powers of Judges and University Administrators
Sunday, 30 August, 2009
Occasional Note
Chairman: John Stone
9.15 am John Nethercote:
Referendum Majorities
Session 3: South Australia's Upper House (continued)
Chairman: Bob Day AO
9.15 am Professor Dean Jaensch AO:
The Attack on South Australia's Democracy?
10.00 am Discussion
10.15 am Morning Tea
Session 4: Judicial Appointments
Chairman: Professor David Flint AM
10.45 am Hon Bruce Debelle QC: Judicial Appointments: the Case for Reform
11.15 am Discussion
11.30 am Alan Anderson:
How Judicial Appointments Reform threatens our Democracy
12 noon Discussion
12.15 pm Concluding Remarks: Sir David Smith, KCVO, AO
12.25 pm Conference Concludes
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