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Saturday 29 August 2026 – Session Details
| Time | Presenter(s) | Topic |
| 9:00am | Welcome to Country (Wiradyuri Elders-in-Residence, CSU; Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation (WTOCWAC)) | Acknowledgement of Country |
| 9:15am | Associate Professor Duane Aslett, Director of the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University | Thanks to Elders and Speakers |
| 9:20am | Session 1 – Ms Lynda-June Coe (BEd, MRes; Wiradyuri (Erambie, Cowra) and Badulaig woman; activist; Common Ground contributor https://www.commonground.org.au/contributors/lynda-june-coe; PhD candidate, Macquarie University, Faculty of Arts) | Protest and the Law: An Indigenous Perspective |
| 10.05am | Break | |
| 10:15am | Session 2 – Mr Rohan Simpson (Human Rights Law Centre https://www.hrlc.org.au/) | Protest Permissions Processes, Policing Protest and Litigation for Inappropriate Use of Policing Powers During Protest |
| 11:00am | Session 3 – Professor Patrick Keyzer (Professor of Law and Public Policy, ACU, Faculty of Law and Business https://www.acu.edu.au/about-acu/faculties-directorates-and-staff/faculty-of-law-and-business/thomas-more-law-school/school-staff/patrick-keyzer) | Constitutional and International Law as Protections for Protest |
| 11:45am | Session 4 – Mr Jonathan Cooper, (Barrister and Public Defender, Port Macquarie, NSW https://publicdefenders.nsw.gov.au/) | In conversation with a legal practitioner. |
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm | Wiradyuri Elders-in-Residence; WTOCWAC | Yalbilinya Cultural Support Session |
Plenary Session Theme: Protest, Democracy and the Law
Welcome to the Charles Sturt University Law Intensive School 202660 session.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the 202660 Law Intensive School.
Students: for the self-paced task questions on the theme Protest, Democracy and the Law please click here:
Ms Lynda-June Coe
Lynda-June Coe is a proud Wiradjuri and Badulaig woman, activist, academic and PhD candidate from Erambie, Cowra NSW. She hails from a strong family and kinship system of warriors on both her maternal and paternal bloodlines. Lynda-June’s grandparents Les and Agnes were Wiradjuri trailblazers, and her father, aunties and uncles are renowned activists who have contributed to the defence of Indigenous land, people, place and futures. Lynda-June is a passionate advocate for justice, self-determination and revitalising Indigenous governance as practice, having initiated and co-created the Wiradjuri Buyaa (Law) Council in 2018. Spanning over two decades, she has also co-organised national campaigns such as Black Lives Matter, ‘Water is Life’ Climate Action, Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Stop the forced removal of Aboriginal children and condemning institutionalised systemic racism on all fronts in the settler-colonial project known as Australia.
Mr Rohan Simpson
Rohan Simpson is a Senior Lawyer in the Democratic Freedoms team, working primarily on protest rights. Prior to joining the Human Rights Law Centre, Rohan worked as a Senior Lawyer at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, where he supervised the Police and Prison Accountability team. He conducted litigation against the Northern Territory Police Force and the Northern Territory Department of Corrections on behalf of Aboriginal people who were subject to police brutality, discrimination and inhumane prison conditions. Rohan also advocated for young people incarcerated in Don Dale Youth Detention Centre and then Holtze Youth Detention Centre. Rohan previously worked as a lawyer at the Refugee Advice and Casework Service and at Allens.
Professor Patrick Keyzer (Professor of Law and Public Policy, ACU, Faculty of Law and Business
Patrick Keyzer, a former Dean of the Thomas More Law School and the La Trobe Law School, has been a professor of law for 20 years. He specializes in access to justice, constitutional law and human rights. His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He was President of the Australasian Law Teachers Association (2015-6). His eighth book, Impunity: How Australia Routinely Breaches International Human Rights (And Gets Away with It (Springer, forthcoming in Sept 2026) chronicles Australia’s lack of compliance with United Nations Human Rights Committee decisions about the prohibition on arbitrary detention. In June 2026 he published Principles of Australian Constitutional Law (6th Edition, LexisNexis).
Mr Johnathan Cooper (Barrister and Public Defender, Port Macquarie, NSW)
Jonathan Cooper has broad experience from commercial to criminal law. He regularly appears in jury trials, appeals and inquests in NSW, ACT and the NT. He has appeared unled in the Court of Appeal of the ACT. He also has a common law practice focusing on police torts.
https://publicdefenders.nsw.gov.au
Wiradjuri Elders-in-Residence
Enterprise (the Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal corporation)
Wirribee Aunty Leanna Carr-Smith is an Elder-in-Residence and Scholarly Teaching Fellow, School of Psychology at Charles Sturt University.
Yanhadarrambal Uncle Jade Flynn is an Elder-in-Residence and Adjunct, Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University.
Dinawan Dyirribang Uncle Bill Allen is an Elder-in-Residence at Charles Sturt University and direct descendant of Wiinymaldhaany (Windhuraydhine, Windradyne, Fire-maker).
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