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November 18, 2022 Episode 23 - Suzie Miller
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Playwriter Suzie Miller worked as a lawyer in King's Cross when she got the calling to write a play about the stories she was living. Since then, her career has skyrocketed commercially and critically. As her play Prima Facie is about to start a Broadway run, Suzie releases her one-woman show about Ruth Bader Ginsberg, RBG: Of Many, One, currently playing at the Sydney Theatre Company.
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47 min
October 14, 2022 Episode 22 - Bill Browder
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Bill Browder is a financier turned political activist, dubbed a chief enemy of Vladimir Putin. Dialling in from London, he tells Amy Dale about how the murder of his lawyer inspired a global campaign for Magnitsky laws.
44 min
September 09, 2022 Episode 21 - Carina Ford
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The Murugappan family became the face of Australia's tough asylum-seeker policies. Their lawyer Carina Ford dials in to talk about the family's return to Biloela, the unspoken trauma of immigrants, and the policies needed to support refugees.
35 min
August 12, 2022 Episode 20 - Nicholas Stewart
Lawyer and LGBTQI advocate Nicholas Stewart shares his response to the recently-announced parliamentary inquiry into historic hate crimes in Sydney, changes to mental health law, and his pick for a switch-off binge watch.
39 min
July 06, 2022 Episode 19 - Rick Welsh
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Access to justice is at the heart of everything Rick Welsh does. The proud Murrawarri man is the coordinator of The Shed, an Aboriginal suicide prevention service based in Western Sydney, and speaks candidly to Keely McDonough about improving the Indigenous community’s relationship with the legal system.
49 min
June 09, 2022 Episode 18 - Courtney Bowie
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Award-winning business owner and CEO Courtney Bowie is doing her part to create a world where law firms focus more on tackling gender discrimination, innovation and mental health than billable hours. Supported by Unisearch.
41 min
April 29, 2022 Episode 17 - Diana Reid
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Diana Reid was starting her legal career when the pandemic drove her to tick off a new bucket list item: write a book. Diana tells Amy Dale about the resulting bestseller and the letters exchanged with a legendary Australian author. Supported by Unisearch.
35 min
March 31, 2022 Episode 16 - Tim Watson-Munro
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From murderers and rapists to hitmen and gangsters, Criminal Psychologist Tim Watson-Munro has come face to face with some of the most violent individuals around Australia and the world. Tim sits down with Keely McDonough to discuss his colourful career, his unique perspective of the justice system and how he worked his way up from rock bottom.Supported by Unisearch.
32 min
March 07, 2022 Episode 15 - Rachael Wallbank
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Rachael Wallbank has been at the forefront of the cases that have shaped the law for transgender rights in Australia. As she approaches retirement, 30 years sober and 27 years as an affirmed female, Rachael reveals her path to happiness and why the profession must embrace difference.Supported by Unisearch.
44 min
February 04, 2022 Episode 14 - Thomas Russell
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Thomas Russell is one of the state’s leading business lawyers – but he drives an Uber in his spare time and thinks you should too. Thomas sits down with LSJ to discuss the legal jargon he loves to hate, why he debates strangers on Facebook, how his first day in a courtroom shaped his career today, and why he is proud to be part of the Law Society’s new campaign, Lawfully Explained. Supported by Unisearch.
53 min

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