Australian Centre for Health Law Research
This podcast features a series of video seminars and interviews by the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology. It explores innovative research on current and emerging health law issues in Australia and around the world. The episodes cover topics such as legal and ethical questions in healthcare, policy developments, and academic insights. The content is aimed at researchers, legal professionals, and anyone interested in health law.
Episodes
Science, Public Health, and Democracy - Distinguished University Professor Lawrence O. Gostin
In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, science and public health are under sustained attack. Mis- and disinformation about health is rampant in social media and beyond, amplified by artificial intelligence. Populist governments in the United States and elsewhere perpetuate false health information, fueling anti-science beliefs ranging from vaccines and water fluoridation to raw milk. The Unite
ACHLR 14th Public Oration - Professor Kenneth Chambaere
The Past, Present and Future of Assisted Dying: A Long-Term Evolutionary Lens
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When Algorithms Write the Record – AI Scribes and the legal obligations of doctors (Dr Owen Bradfield)
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Voluntary Assisted Dying First Conversations: A practical discussion for GPs
In this podcast, Penny Neller from the Australian Centre for Health Law Research's End of Life Law for Clinicians training program is joined by GP Dr Sara Townend and Dr Madeleine Archer (PhD) to discuss first conversations about voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in practice. They provide practical and legal insights for doctors about navigating VAD conversations with patients, legal rights and oblig
Predation of Doctors by Doctors: Harassment and Sexual Assault in the Workplace
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ACHLR 13th Public Oration - Professor Tracie O. Afifi
Child Maltreatment in Canada: What we know and how we can do better
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Right to Access Health Services - Scott McDougall
Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Scott McDougall discussed how the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) is influencing the provision of health care in Queensland.
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Right About Time: A New Convention on the Human Rights of Older Persons
ACHLR public lecture on 29 May 2025 with Bill Mitchell OAM HonLLD presenting.
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ACHLR 12th Public Oration - Professor John Coggon
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ACHLR and HEAL webinar - Prof Dominique Martin
Professor Dominique E. Martin will discuss the ethical and legal implications of “family vetoes” in the case of deceased registered organ donors.
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Learn Me Right in Ethical Procreating in a Time of Climate Change
In the first episode of 2024, Sinead talks with PhD candidate Craig Stanbury from Monash Bioethics Centre on his research about the ethics of procreating in a time of climate change. Craig talks about the role of justice in moral tragedies, the rights, responsibilities, and duties of people in their reproductive choices, and how all of us can have important conversations about our roles in mitigat
ACHLR 11th Public Oration - Professor Emily Jackson
In 2023 ACHLR is proud to deliver its 11th Oration presented by Professor Emily Jackson who will discuss Regulating Reproduction. This lecture will revisit some of the themes of Professor Jackson’s 2001 book Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy, in which she argued that women’s reproductive autonomy should be better protected by the law; has there been progress over the last 22 ye
Learn Me Right in VAD - Epilogue
Epilogue the Learn Me Right in Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) mini-series.
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Learn Me Right with Justice Michael Kirby
Ruthie and Sinead are delighted to release a special podcast with the Hon. Justice Michael Kirby who discusses his role in the World Health Organisation’s response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as well as unique features of the Australian response that enabled the nation to quickly and effectively curtail a public health emergency that was disproportionately affecting vulnerable people. M
Learn Me Right in VAD: Training for clinicians (Penny Neller and Dr Rachel Feeney)
Project Manager Penny Neller and Dr. Rachel Feeney explain the importance and success of End-of-Life Law training for clinicians.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: How patients and families influence change (Ruthie Jeanneret)
Doctoral Candidate Ruthie Jeanneret, our very own podcast host, discusses the role of patients and families in influencing VAD regulation, drawing on insights from interviews with patients and families in Victoria and Canada.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: Doctors’ perspectives on involvement in VAD (Dr Laura Ley Greaves)
Dr. Laura Ley Greaves, a medical practitioner, discusses the importance of considering doctors’ perspectives of providing VAD in Australia, including the emotional impacts of being involved as a VAD provider.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: Lessons from Belgium (Madeleine Archer)
Doctoral Candidate Madeleine Archer provides an overview the assisted dying model in Belgium and some similarities and differences with the Australian approach, and highlights some insights and lessons for Australia.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: Institutional objection (Dr Eliana Close)
Dr. Eliana Close discusses institutional objections to VAD in Canadian and Australian VAD systems, and how this impacts patients seeking access to VAD, and providing practitioners.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: The Commonwealth Criminal Code and telehealth (Dr Katrine Del Villar)
Dr. Katrine Del Villar explores how the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act 1995 prohibition on using a carriage service (i.e., telehealth) to discuss “suicide” and state Voluntary Assisted Dying laws interact to create a unique and difficult problem for Australians accessing VAD.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: VAD across the states (Katherine Waller)
Project Manager Katherine Waller provides a comparison of the Australian VAD laws across the states, and highlights the universal requirement for participating practitioners to undertake mandatory training in the law.
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Learn Me Right in VAD: Lessons from Victoria and WA, remuneration, and regional access (Casey Haining)
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Learn Me Right in VAD: Patients’ experiences of VAD (Professor Ben White)
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Learn Me Right in VAD: an overview of VAD in Australia (Professor Lindy Willmott)
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Learn Me Right in Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) - Prologue
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Learn Me Right in Public Health Palliative Care
Sinead and Ruthie interview Professor Luc Deliens in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Public Health Palliative Care. Luc makes the point that how we conceptualize palliative care needs to change to better suit the needs of those at the end of life, including through more communitarian-based care structures.
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Learn Me Right in Gene Carrier Testing
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Learn Me Right in Surrogacy
Sinead and Ruthie interview Ezra Kneebone in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Surrogacy. Ezra is a PhD Candidate at Monash University and a research assistant in the Monash Bioethics Centre. Ezra provides an overview of surrogacy in Australia explains why so many Australian babies born via surrogate are born overseas. Ezra highlights the lived experience of Australian surrogates in this podca
Learn Me Right in Clinical Decision Support Systems
Sinead and Ruthie interview Dr Megan Prictor in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Clinical Decision Support Systems. Megan talks us through the Practice Fusion case in the United States, where a company was fraudulently receiving money from a pharmaceutical company to influence the design of CDSS software. Megan highlights potential complexities in working out legal responsibility if things go
Learn Me Right in Black Bioethics
Sinead and Ruthie interview Professor Keisha Ray in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Black Bioethics. Keisha is a professor of bioethics and medical humanities at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Keisha shares insights from her research into black health, including how racism inside and outside of clinics create poorer health outcomes for black people.
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Learn Me Right in Quarantine
Sinead and Ruthie interview Professor Scott Kitchener in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Quarantine. Scott shares his medical and public health expertise regarding quarantine, and the use of quarantine in Queensland during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Learn Me Right in Gene Therapy
Sinead and Ruthie interview Dr. Christopher Rudge in the latest episode: Learn Me Right in Gene Therapy. Chris shares his legal and bioethical expertise regarding stem cells, therapeutic genetic engineering, and the significant importance of community input of regulation in medical innovation.
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Medicine, the law and end of life: From Tony Bland to voluntary assisted dying.
In this podcast, Penny Neller from End of Life Law for Clinicians and ACHLR interviews Dr Jim Howe, a neurologist with over 50 years in clinical practice. They explore Jim’s experience of the interaction between law and medicine arising from his time caring for Tony Bland, a victim of the 1989 Hillsborough football disaster, and his involvement in the landmark UK case Airedale NHS Trust v Bland. D
ACHLR 10th Annual Public Oration - Professor Emma Cave
The oration considers how the sufficiency of young adults’ autonomy is judged in light of biological, social and psychological evidence that adolescence can continue into the mid 20s. Adolescence can impact on developmental immaturity which can in turn affect risk taking, impulsivity, and independence in decision making. Some areas of law are starting to accommodate the impacts of adolescence into
Learn Me Right in Child Sexual Abuse
Please note that this podcast contains content about child sexual abuse. Listener discretion is advised. You can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.
In the 9th episode of the podcast series, Sinead and Ruthie interview Professor Ben Mathews about his work relating to child sexual abuse. In particular, we discuss some of the issues and gaps in legal responses to survivors’ civil claims and criminal actio
Learn Me Right in Consent for Treatment for Trans Youth
In the 8th episode of the podcast series, Ruthie and Sinead interview Dr. Steph Jowett about her recently published book: Consent for Treatment for Trans Youth. Steph explains how court involvement in the treatment process for trans youth is complicated and in need of reform.
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Learn Me Right in Abortion and Conscientious Objection
In the 7th episode of the podcast series, Sinead and Ruthie interview Casey Haining, a research fellow at QUT and the University of Melbourne, about her research on abortion and conscientious objection in Australia.
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Learn Me Right in Health and Disease
In the 6th episode of the podcast series, Ruthie turns to co-host Sinead to get to the crux of her initial findings in her PhD on the ethics of genetic enhancement by defining health and disease.
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Learn Me Right in Source Reliability
In this episode of Learn Me Right, we chat to Liaison Librarian Denise Frost about source reliability and how to distinguish trustworthy sources.
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Learn Me Right in Conservatorship and Britney Spears
In this episode of Learn Me Right, we talk with Dr. Julia Duffy about the law surrounding the conservatorship Britney Spears was held in for 13 years. Duffy completed her PhD in guardianship law here in Australia, and talks us through whether she thinks something similar would ever be likely to happen here in Australia.
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Learn Me Right in Voluntary Assisted Dying
Dr. Jodhi Rutherford talks with us about her research on Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD). Jodhi shares some findings from her interviews with doctors involved in providing VAD in Victoria (Australia), including the complex ethical issues faced by doctors who choose to participate in VAD; and the difficulties faced by individuals trying to access VAD, including finding a doctor who is willing to ass
Learn Me Right in the Queensland Mental Health Review Tribunal
Sinead and Ruthie talk with Dr. Sam Boyle about the circumstances in which doctors can treat a person with a mental illness without their consent. Sam discusses his research into the mental health review tribunal according to the perspectives of lawyers and advocates who represent patients in the tribunal.
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Learn Me Right in Vaccine Hesitancy
ACHLR HDR student Sam Roach discusses vaccine hesitancy with fellow ACHLR HDR students Ruthie Jeanneret and Sinead Prince in the first episode of the "Learn Me Right in Health Law and Bioethics" series. They discuss how governments might intervene to improve vaccine uptake, and some helpful tips on how you can approach vaccine hesitancy within your own circle of influence. Sponsored by the Austral
How do we change the world: Will Steffen, Climate Scientist, Michelle Maloney, National Convenor of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance, Richard Denniss, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute, Anne Manne, Acclaimed journalist and author.
What we know about how and why the climate is changing, and the actions that we need to take – urgently
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Cameron Stewart
Regulating Innovation: advocating for codes of practice - 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Liability and Innovation. The Effect of Disciplinary Proceedings: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Legal Perspectives - Professor Cameron Stewart (The University of Sydney, Australia): Regulating I
Dan Matthias
The effect of disciplinary proceedings: concluding comments - 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series – Liability and Innovation. The Effect of Disciplinary Proceedings: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Legal Perspectives - Dan Matthias Executive Director, Legal Services, Office of the Health Om
Bill Madden
The effect of disciplinary proceedings: The disciplinary response when expert evidence departs from widely accepted professional practice - 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Liability and Innovation. The Effect of Disciplinary Proceedings: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Legal Perspectiv
Bernadette Richards
The role of tribunals in regulating behaviour - 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Liability and Innovation. Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Legal Perspectives - Associate Professor Bernadette Richards (The University of Adelaide, Australia): Innovation and Professionalism: The role of tr
Matthew Spittal
Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards - 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Liability and Innovation. The Effect of Disciplinary Proceedings and Innovation: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Medical Perspectives - Associate Professor Matthew Spittal (The University of Melbo
Wendy Rogers
Professional Standards for Innovation - 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) – Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Liability and Innovation: The Effect of Disciplinary Proceedings and Innovation: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Medical Perspectives - Professor Wendy Rogers, Professor of Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University. To
Megan Munsie
2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series – Liability and Innovation: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Medical Perspectives - Associate Professor Megan Munsie (The University of Melbourne, Australia): Setting the standards: need for action to curb the big business of selling stem cells
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Paula Case
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Regulator? 2017 Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Seminar Series, Liability and Innovation: Medical Innovation, Regulation and Disciplinary Proceedings: Legal Perspectives - Dr Paula Case (University of Liverpool, UK) Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Regulator?: Interrogating Causal Narratives in Defensive Medic
James Richardson
Innovation stifled by law: real or imaginary?
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Roundtable
The Effect of Disciplinary Proceedings and Innovation
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Roger Magnusson
Can health legislation save the world? The untapped potential of law in health development
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The Hon. Michael Kirby
Human Rights Meets Global Pharma. 5th Annual Public Oration.
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Professor Ian Freckelton
Cannabis Law Reform in Australia: Panaceas, Promise and Pitfalls
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Adjunct Prof Jocelyn Downie
Launch of the End of Life Law in Australia website
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Adjunct Prof Jocelyn Downie
The Legalisation of Medical Assistance in Dying - Lessons from Canada
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Kenneth Chambaere
Developments in end-of-life practice under Belgian law
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Dr Marie Bismark
Under a medico-legal cloud: identifying doctors at highest risk of claims and complaints
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Julian Savulescu
Conscientious Objection and Value Pluralism in Medicine
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Ben White
Centre Launch Ceremony 25 October 2012
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Michael Kirby
Centre Launch Ceremony 25 October 2012
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Lawrence Springborg
Centre Launch Ceremony 25 October 2012
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