Adelle Neary is Australia’s next consul-general in Chengdu, and replaces
Christopher Lim. Neary is a career officer with DFAT, and has previously served overseas in Vientiane and Jakarta. In Canberra she has undertaken work associated with the MH17 flight disaster as well as contributing to the work of the Foreign Policy White Paper Taskforce. She has also served as an adviser, international division, within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Visitor economy expert panel
Former federal tourism minister
Martin Ferguson has been appointed to lead the new Reimagining the Visitor Economy Expert Panel over the next six months.
âSuch a talented womanâ: Rowena Orr named as Victoriaâs solicitor-general
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Rowena Orr, QC, who is best known for her role in the federal governmentâs banking royal commission, has been appointed Victoriaâs next solicitor-general.
Ms Orr will become the stateâs most senior legal adviser after nearly 20 years as a barrister, a career which includes her most prominent role in serving as senior counsel assisting the commissioner in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry in 2018 and 2019.
The notice was sent at about the same time that Ms Teffaha filed the class action on behalf of thousands of public housing tenants subjected to the hard lockdown that confined them to their homes in July 2020.
The board has not said what led to the cancellation of Ms Teffahaâs licence.
The lawyer had been seeking clients for a range of class action that covered people affected by various COVID-19 measures, including any form of detention, mandatory vaccination, business closure, isolation in residential aged care, cross-border rules and contact tracing.
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On Monday, Ms Teffaha said losing her licence would not affect the class action, and that she had written a whistleblower complaint against the legal watchdog for what she considered to be the targeting of her litigation.
LCA and ABA pair up to condemn violence towards Myanmar lawyers
By Emma Ryan|14 April 2021
The Law Council of Australia (LCA) and the Australian Bar Association (ABA) have issued a joint statement following ongoing reports of violence towards lawyers and judges by Myanmar’s military.
Since what’s being described as an “unlawful coup d’état” on 1 February 2021, there have been a number of reports relating to intimidation, harassment, arbitrary arrest and incommunicado detention of lawyers and judges by Myanmar’s military, known as the Tatmadaw.
Both the LCA and ABA have expressed their views on the matter, calling for the military government to evoke three measures: 1. Immediately release all lawyers, judges and others detained unlawfully. 2. Take immediate, meaningful steps to enable lawyers to carry out their professional duties safely and independently, and protect them against intimidation, threats and reprisals; and, 3. Guarantee to all persons due process right
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