A Podcast of One’s Own with Julia Gillard
Society & Culture:Personal Journals
Baroness Helena Kennedy is one of Britain’s most distinguished lawyers and has dedicated her more than forty-year career to giving voice to those who have least power within the system. Helena has worked on some of the UK’s most high-profile cases, including the appeal by the Guildford Four, who were wrongly accused and imprisoned for planting an IRA bomb in a pub used by British soldiers. She is also a leading voice for equal opportunities for women working in law and has championed reforms to address the discrimination experienced by women in the legal system, especially relating to sexual and domestic violence.
In this episode, Helena shares what sparked her love affair with the law and how she bucked convention to become one of Britain's leading barristers at a time when women were largely excluded from the legal profession. She and Julia discuss her landmark human rights cases, and also delve into her recent work on the #EvacuateHer campaign to provide support to female judges, lawyers, women’s rights activists, human rights defenders and their families who were at risk after the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan.
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Audette Exel on saving the world, one investment banker at a time
Jenny Macklin on speaking out and making a change
Kate Mosse on giving voice to unheard women in history
Cordelia Fine on debunking gendered science
Tara June Winch on the power of Indigenous stories
Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo on economics as a lever of action for the world
Alice Albright on girls’ education and creating the next generation of leaders
Associate Professor Patricia Kingori on the influence of fakes, fabrications and falsehoods
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Mary Robinson on being the first female President of Ireland
Dame Cressida Dick on policing London through a pandemic
Madeleine Albright on politics and diplomacy
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia Gillard on women and leadership
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on why incompetent men become leaders
Gail Kelly - the first female CEO of an Australian Big Four bank
University of Adelaide Panel: Frances Adamson, Tanya Monro and Amanda Vanstone
Julia Gillard on the year that was 2020
Clementine Ford - fighting for feminism
Edwina Grosvenor on women in the criminal justice system
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