4th ANU Reconciliation Lecture 2007: Reconciliation, justice and equal rights

Abstract

he Honourable Elizabeth Evatt AC graduated in law from the University of Sydney and Harvard University and practised law in Australia and England. She chaired the Royal Commission on Human Relationships, was the first Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia, 1976–1988, and went on to become President of the Australian Law Reform Commission. Elizabeth has been a part-time Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (now the Australian Human Rights Commission), a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, and a Judge of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal. Elizabeth was Chancellor of the University of Newcastle from 1988–1994, and conducted a Review of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984 for the Australian Government. In 2003 she became a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists, based in Geneva. Show more