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I’m proud of the direction ⁦Hawthorn FC⁩ is heading in, and keen to see us keep moving in the right direction into 2025. Get out and vote thisAGM if you feel the same way. #Always theage.com.au/sport/afl/lang…

Congrats to ARCSHS Dean Murphy, today awarded an ARC Discovery Grant of $601k over 3 years to undertake critical analysis of public policy around - and the policy ecology of - HIV ‘elimination’ in Australia, along with Kane Race, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Edwina Wright and John Rule!

We’re thrilled to announce the third keynote for our 2025 conference in Manchester is Dr Danielle Russell from the Kirby Institute. You can read more about Danielle’s work here: kirby.unsw.edu.au/our-people/dan…. The call for papers for the conference closes 15 Jan: latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/events/…

Prof Professor Kate Seear joins the QVWC #16DaysOfActivism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, highlighting the important and often hugely consequential role lawyers can play in the understanding and approach to gender-based violence. linkedin.com/posts/kate-see…

The initial report of the independent review of the General Insurance Code of Practice has recommended changes to the Code drawing from our research on insurance discrimination and hepatitis C. genderlawanddrugs.org/2024/11/28/rev…

North Melbourne becomes the first team in history to complete an entire top-level (AFL/AFLW) season without losing a game. Fox Footy #AFLWGF

Come and join us in Manchester in 2025!

It’s great to be in Adelaide with the folks from AIVL For PWUD Wellbeing, Health & Human Rights✊️💜 and the various DUOs from the states and territories at their health and human rights summit. Among other things we are hearing about the work of International Network of People who Use Drugs on human rights and what a rights-based approach should look like.

Delighted to have been awarded a Regional Arts Victoria Quick Response Grant for a drug law reform theatre project script development with my wonderful colleagues Professor Kate Seear and Danish Sheikh! Looking forward to the upcoming workshop in Hong Kong!

OK, this is a problem. A pressed pill, of reasonable quality press, purchased as oxycodone, and looking every bit like a run of the MDMA pill. Except that it contains protonitazene. And THAT is bad news. Were this to break out in the wild, and be consumed by innocents & ingenues

casually expecting MDMA, the healthcare system would have a problem. So we've made this a 'Red'. If you are going out this weekend, (and it's going to be a hot one) please, please, <please>, be careful. Look out for your mates. All is not what it appears to be, out there, ATM.

My latest piece with Professor Kate Seear is out in the world and in Legalities Journal! "Searching for Performance in the Legal Archive: On the Fragments and Petrified Remnants of Parliamentary Human Rights Scrutiny" euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/le…

Our latest article from Sean Mulcahy and Professor Kate Seear explores legal archival gaps and using the fragments and remnants that remain to speculate on the performance of parliamentary human rights scrutiny genderlawanddrugs.org/2024/12/23/wor…

Listen to Sean Mulcahy interview Canadian law and humanities scholar-practitioners Sara Ramshaw and Julie Lassonde genderlawanddrugs.org/2025/01/07/tal…

The deadline to submit abstracts for this year’s Contemporary Drug Problems Conference in Manchester this August has been extended! Abstracts can now be submitted until 4 February 2025: latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/events/…

Come and join us! And please spread the word among your colleagues!

In December, GLaD researchers Prof Professor Kate Seear and Dr Sean Mulcahy attended the lawlithum Association of Australasia conference at the University of Hong Kong. Read a report on their visit. genderlawanddrugs.org/2025/01/13/gla…

🔍How can human rights shape #drugpolicy? The #research by Professor Kate Seear & Sean Mulcahy (La Trobe University) explores this question. At GPDPD , we promote human-rights-based, development-oriented approaches—this research adds valuable insights. 📖 opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/repor…

Consensus from today's #Vaping panel: Australia’s moral panic and prohibition approach to vaping has failed to achieve its objectives. We need more nuanced policy solutions and more sensible ways to regulate vapes and tobacco. #VAADAConference2025 #AOD #harmprevention

My latest article with Professor Kate Seear, 'Are We Human Or are We Dancer?: Sex, Drugs, and Bodies of Law', has just been published in the Australian Feminist Law Journal The paper questions: who is the ‘human’ that is entitled to human rights in the context of drug-related laws? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…