Senate Occasional Lecture - Bret Walker SC [Harry Evans Lecture]
Channel: Australian Parliament Fan
Date: 2020-08-21

Bret Walker SC is an Australian Barrister admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1979 and appointed as a Senior Council in 1993. Walker is a member of the Council of Law Reporting for New South Wales, and has been editor of the NSW Law Reports since 2006. He is a patron of the State Library of New South Wales as a foundation senior fellow and has been a member of the NSW Health Clinical Ethics Advisory Panel since 2003. He was governor of the Law Foundation of NSW from 1996 to 2007. He was a foundation member and has been director of the Australian Academy of Law since 2007. In April 2020 Walker was appointed to a Special Commission of Inquiry to "… investigate all matters and agencies involved with the Ruby Princess' departure and its return to Circular Quay on March 19".
 
The Harry Evans Lecture commemorates the service of the longest serving Clerk of the Senate, Harry Evans. These lectures focus on matters championed by Mr Evans during his tenure as Clerk such as the importance of the Senate as an institution, the rights of individual senators and the value of a parliamentary democracy.

This lecture was given on 1 December 2017.
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