Armidale Sanctuary Human Rights Lecture 2025

Armidale Sanctuary Humanitarian Settlement is a not-for-profit organisation, staffed entirely by volunteers, sponsoring and supporting refugees in our community,

Its annual Human Rights lecture in 2025 will be presented by Kieran Pender, Associate Director of the Human Rights Law Centre.

The topic of the lecture will be:

Transparency, Democracy and Human Rights: Fixing Australia's Secrecy Crisis

Kieran Pender is a lawyer, writer and academic, based in Canberra. Kieran is an associate legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, where he leads the Whistleblower Project - Australia's first specialist legal service to help whistleblowers expose government and corporate wrongdoing.

He is also an honorary senior lecturer at the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy and an award winning writer with Guardian Australia.