The Gillian Triggs/Speaking Up Australian Tour
This is your invitation to speak up.
Gillian Triggs' passionate memoir is an irresistible call to everyone who yearns for a fairer world.
As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did this aspiring ballet dancer, dignified daughter of a tank commander and eminent law academic respond when appreciative passengers on a full airplane departing Canberra greeted her with a round of applause?
Speaking Up shares with readers the values that have guided Triggs' convictions and the causes she has championed. She dares women to be a little vulgar and men to move beyond their comfort zones to achieve equity for all. And she will not rest until Australia has a Bill of Rights.
The Tour
Gillian Triggs will be speaking at more than 20 events national-wide for Speaking Up.
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Professor Emerita Gillian Triggs was appointed by the UN Secretary General as Assistant Secretary General and Assistant High Commissioner Protection with UNHCR, in 2019 Prior to this position she served as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2012 to 2017, was Chair of Justice Connect, President of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and Chair of the UN Independent Expert Panel on Abuse of Office and…