Carly Nyst & Julian Burnside on surveillance
On Saturday 11th October, EFA co-hosted an event in Brisbane with QCCL, which featured Carly Nyst, Legal Director of Privacy International, and leading human rights barrister, Julian Burnside AO QC, who was just yesterday awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. Listen to the audio from this event.
October events: book now!
EFA is proud to present the following events in October. Book your tickets today! Brisbane: Julian Burnside Saturday, 11th October, 6.00pm for 7.00pm In conjunction with Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, this event will feature leading Human Rights lawyer Julian Burnside AO QC who will speak about the threat to civil liberties inherent in indiscriminate communications data retention and […]
Debrief from Brazil: 3rd June
The Internet Society of Australia, in conjunction with auDA, APNIC and the Federal Department of Communications are holding a ‘debrief’ on the Net Mundial: Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance, held last month in Sao Paolo, Brazil. This session will cover what happened, and what we can take away from the meeting, […]
Speak Out #5: Introducing Fair Use – Niva Elkin-Koren
Thursday 15th May, 18:30 AEST Israel adopted a new copyright law in 2007, which included a shift from a British-style ‘fair dealing’ framework to an American-style ‘fair use framework. The Australian government is currently considering its response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s recent report, which recommends that Australian copyright law be shifted in the same manner. […]
EFA Speak Out #4: Narelle Clark
EFA is very proud to present our next EFA Speak Out, featuring Narelle Clark. Narelle is a long-standing Life Member of EFA and is currently the President of the Internet Society of Australia and sits on the Internet Society’s global Board of Trustees. Narelle has over 20 years’ experience in network engineering and management positions […]