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Author / Creator:	Triggs, Gillian D. (Gillian Doreen), 1945- author.
Imprint:	Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2018. ©2018
Description:	300 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Triggs, Gillian D. -- (Gillian Doreen), -- 1945- Lawyers -- Australia -- Biography. Civil rights lawyers -- Australia -- Biography. Human rights workers -- Australia -- Biography. Civil rights lawyers. Human rights workers. Lawyers. Australia. Biography. Autobiographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11804566

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ISBN:	9780522873511 0522873510
Notes:	Includes index.
Summary:	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. Triggs' passionate memoir is an irresistible call to everyone who yearns for a fairer world.

Table of Contents:

Finding my voice : from migrant to human rights advocate
Speaking truth to power : leave no woman behind
Tyranny of distance : Australia's human rights exceptionalism
Seeking to be heard : indigenous Australians and human rights
Offend, insult, intimidate or humiliate : freedom of speech and the 18C saga
Tours of duty : monitoring the treatment of asylum seekers
Stop the boats : asylum-seeker myths and the law
Love is love : freedom of religion and marriage equality
Special measures : racism and the Racial Discrimination Act
The time is now : a charter of rights for Australia.