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2010 Kirby Oration - Mr Julian Burnside AO QC

Julian Burnside AO QC (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide array of high-profile cases. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009, "for service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law."

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Grant Gillett. MBChB (equivalent to MD); MSc(Psychology); D.Phil (Oxon); FRACS (equivalent to Board Certification in Neurosurgery); FRS NZ. 

Grant Gillett is a professor of biomedical ethics at the University of Otago. He is also a neurosurgeon. He qualified in medicine at the Auckland Medical School in New Zealand and also completed a Masters degree in Psychology. He qualified as a neurosurgeon and then became an overseas fellow in Neurosurgery at The Radcliffe Infirmary. He completed a D.Phil in philosophy at Oxford University and was appointed fellow of Magdalen College in 1985. He then moved to the University of Otago and Dunedin Hospital. He is author of several books and a number of journal articles and is co-author of The Discursive Mind (Sage), and Medical Ethics (OUP). His recent books are The Mind and its Discontents 2nd Ed. (Oxford UP), Subjectivity and being somebody: Human identity and neuroethics. (Imprint Acdemic), and Bioethics in the Clinic: Hippocratic reflections. (Johns Hopkins University Press). His research has included work on cross-cultural ethics, philosophical psychology, and post-modern approaches to philosophy and bioethics.

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Ngaire Naffine LL.B, PhD, FASSA Professor of Law  University of Adelaide

Ngaire Naffine has published in the areas of criminology, criminal law, jurisprudence, feminist legal theory and medical law. Her most recent work is about the influence of philosophy, religion and evolutionary biology on law and the legal person. She is also a member of an interdisciplinary research team studying the law and ethics of consent to embryo and organ donation. She has been a Visiting International Scholar at the Hastings Bioethics Center in Garrison New York; a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the European University Institute in Florence Italy; and Baker-Hostetler Professor of Law at Cleveland- Marshall College of Law, Cleveland.

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Professor Wendy Rogers BM.BS, BAHons, PhD, MRCGP, FRACGP Macquarie University

Wendy Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Sydney where she holds a joint appointment between the Philosophy Department and the Australian School of Advanced Medicine. She has published widely in bioethics in areas including general practice, evidence-based medicine, research ethics, feminist ethics, public health and organ donation. She is currently working on projects about organ donation, the ethics of innovative surgery, and vulnerability in bioethics. Wendy plays an active role in health ethics policy and has served on a number of national committees, most recently in relation to organ donation. She is a longstanding member of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB).