Acting Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Dr Anthony Lynham has announced that barrister Joshua Creamer has been appointed to the Legal Aid Board of Queensland.
Dr Lynham said it was fitting that Mr Creamer's appointment came in NAIDOC Week.
I have been a barrister now for five years and I have worked in various courts for over a decade. I'm one of only about a dozen Indigenous Australians practicing as a barrister in Australia and during my career I have defended a number of Indigenous children in criminal matters.
Former workers within Queensland's youth detention centres are claiming to have been sacked for speaking out about violence inside the institutions. ...
Indigenous barrister Joshua Creamer and others in the legal profession are calling on the royal commission in Northern Territory to include Queensland and other states.
Read the article here, and see the video "Royal commission should examine Queensland too, says Indigenous barrister".
ASIC has this week sent letters to 30,000 companies inviting them to participate in a project which is billed as the world's largest specific research into whistle-blowing in the corporate sector. It involves two surveys of the country's largest employers. One survey to be conducted between August and November involves asking managers about their attitude to whistleblowing and separately asking employees what they think.
After an 18 month holiday from QCAT, in what was definitely not an April fool's joke, on 1 April the Attorney General Yvette D'Ath reappointed Peter to QCAT to sit for 5 years in the Human Rights division where he had sat for over a decade.
Based on peer-based surveys as well as interviews with clients, peers and relevant industry bodies I have been been listed in the 2016 Doyles Guide to the Australian Legal Profession ...
