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Speeches by RCOA representatives
The following are speeches given at events organised by RCOA or speeches given
by RCOA representatives at other events.
2010 RCOA Annual General Meeting
Address by Senator Kate Lundy, Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Citizenship, 16 November 2010
Refugee Week 2010
Address by the Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, at the Victoria Refugee Week launch, Victorian Parliament House, 21 June 2010.
Address by Nyadol Nyuon, former refugee, at the Victoria Refugee Week launch, Victorian Parliament House, 21 June 2010.
Address by John Gibson, President of RCOA, at the Victoria Refugee Week launch, Victorian Parliament House, 21 June 2010.
Address by Paul Power, CEO of RCOA, at a Refugee Week celebration hosted by SydWest Multicultural Services, held at Blacktown City Library, 20 June 2010.
Keynote speech by the The Hon John Hatzistergos MLC, NSW Minister for Citizenship and NSW Attorney-General, for NSW Refugee Week launch, Pitt Street Uniting Church, 19 June 2010.
2010 Racism Revisited Conference
"Australian Attitudes to the Acceptance of Refugees" - Summary of speech given by Paul Power, CEO of RCOA, at the Racism Revisited: Anti Anti-racism Leadership and Practice Conference
Murdoch University, Perth, 20 March 2010.
2009 FECCA Congress
Address by John Gibson, President of RCOA, at the FECCA Congress, October 29, 2009
2009 ALP Conference Fringe Event
Address by Paul
Power, CEO of RCOA, at "Which Way Forward? Refugees, Security and the Asia-Pacific" seminar, July 31, 2009
Refugee Week 2009
Address by John
Gibson, President of RCOA, at NSW launch of Refugee Week 2009, June
15, 2009
Address by Yasmeen
Fatimah, member of the Rohingya community in Sydney, at the NSW launch
of Refugee Week 2009, June 15, 2009
2008 RCOA Annual General Meeting
Address by the Minister
for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator Chris Evans, at RCOA AGM,
Parramatta NSW, November 2008
Refugee Week 2008
Address by Les
Murray, sports broadcaster and former refugee, at the NSW launch
of Refugee Week 2008
Refugee Week 2006
Address by Julian
Burnside QC at Victorian launch of Refugee Week 2006
Address by Councillor
Clover Moore MP, Lord Mayor of Sydney, at NSW launch of Refugee Week
2006
Other speeches on refugee issues
The Cranlana Program
Lecture by Mr Petro Georgiou MP, Member for Kooyong, for The Cranlana Programme, 14 April 2010
Kenneth Rivett Orations
To honour the lifetime commitment by Dr Kenneth Rivett to refugees and social
justice, the Refugee Council of Australia, in cooperation with Sydney University
Law School, proudly sponsored the inaugural Kenneth Rivett Orations.
These were delivered in three cities by one of the world's leading scholars in
Refugee Law.
In 2005 the orations were delivered by Dr Guy S Goodwin-Gill.
Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill is currently a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College
at the University of Oxford. He was previously the Professor of International
Refugee Law at Oxford, the Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam,
and worked for over a decade for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
He is the author of the premier refugee law text, The Refugee in International
Law, and was the founding editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law.
Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill delivered a series of thematically linked orations on the
topic: International Refugee Protection: A Work in Progress
You can read the orations here.
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