Don’t miss the Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture – and the panel on online hate speech

Join hundreds of people around the country for the prestigious Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture. Delivered by The Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP, the Attorney-General of Australia, this year’s event is one of the first public opportunities to hear the new Government’s agenda for human rights policy implementation and reform.

The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion to reflect on online hate and the need for legislative reform.

Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/kep-enderby-memorial-lecture-human-rights-anti-racism-and-reform

We stand at an important moment in our nation’s development. The challenges we face to maintain a peaceful, harmonious, multicultural society are many. To ensure a country free of racial discrimination in which everyone has every chance to fully participate in society, we need to move from a space of ‘safe’ to ‘brave’ on issues affecting those who experience discrimination.

This lecture is an opportunity to hear from the Attorney-General on the Australian Government’s vision to advance human rights. The AG will speak to the Government’s commitments on:

  • Justice for First Nations peoples and communities
  • A National Anti-Racism Strategy
  • Governance, integrity and transparency of human rights institutions.

The Kep Enderby Memorial Lecture is an annual public event held by the Australian Human Rights Commission to honour the memory of the Hon. Kep Enderby QC (1926-2015). As Attorney-General, Kep Enderby introduced into Parliament the Bill which would become the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). Each year, the Memorial Lecture advances public understanding and debate about the Racial Discrimination Act, racism and human rights.