Your Rights at Work

There are many different situations in which people can find themselves unfairlytreated at work or sacked from their employment. In today’s show we ar...

Lived Experience: Compulsory Mental Health Treatment

Every day in Victoria, people are subject to compulsory treatment orders. Those subject to these orders lose many of their rights and freedoms and are...

Betia Shakiba - Iranians in Australia

Betia Shakiba is an Iranian refugee, human rights advocate and a solicitor at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre. Betia has long advocated for an impro...

Lived experience: Post-release

Here on Done By Law we are typically talking to people who work in the law. But in this episode, we’re gaining insight from a man who has been subject...

PSOs: Their Powers, Your Rights.

Protective Services Officers, or PSOs have existed in Australia since the late 1980s. Their role was significantly expanded in 2012.As many of our lis...

Gender Affirming Care for Transgender Youth

This episode discusses gender-affirming care for transgender young people. We might mention suicide and self-harm. Listeners are advised.At the end of...

Rights Advocacy Project - Reforming Victoria Police's Stop and Search Powers

Jimi is joined by two researchers at Liberty Victoria's Rights Advocacy Project, Britney Aguirre & Denham Sadler. They join the show to discuss their...

Human Rights Law Centre - Refugee law in Australia

Jimi is joined by Sanmati Verma, Principal Lawyer of Human Rights Law Centre, to discuss recent developments in migration law in Australia and the har...

About Time

This episode Jimi and Britt chat with Rosie Heselev from About Time Media who publish a fantastic newspaper written almost entirely by incarcerated pe...

Eric Hayward - Inquiry into Australia’s youth justice and incarceration system

Jimi is joined by Eric Hayward to unpack his submission, on behalf of the West Australian Greens First Nations Committee, to the Senate Standing Commi...

Melbourne Activist Legal Service - Disrupt Land Forces

Jimi and Aurora are joined by barrister Adam Chernok from Melbourne Activist Legal Service. They discuss legal protections for activists and police po...

Federation of CLCs - CLCs funding crisis

Community Legal Centres or CLCs have formed a critical part of Australia’s legal assistance landscape since before the state legal aid offices even ex...

Afifeh Saeidavi - Refugee protests

Jimi is joined by Afifeh Saeidavi, an Iranian Arab woman who came to Australia in 2012 with her family. Afifeh is one of more than 10,000 refugees who...

Fitzroy Legal Service - Medical Cannabis & Driving Offences

On this episode, Aurora & Jimi are joined by Amity Mara, Manager of Policy in the Social Action and Public Interest Law team at Fitzroy Legal Service....

Environmental Justice Australia - Dingoes

We’re talking about the Dingo! Aurora & Jimi are joined by Mera Sivanesan from Environmental Justice Australia to discuss the cultural and ecological...

Environmental Justice Australia

On this episode, we speak with Laura Dreyfus and Danya Jacobs of the Ecosystem team from Environmental Justice Australia. Among many legal battles, th...

Barriers to Accessing Family Violence Intervention Order Online Processes

***A warning to our listeners, this episode discusses family violence, family violence intervention orders, and gendered violence.*** This week Northe...

Infringements Working Group - Jo & Shifrah

Jimi & Liz are joined by Jo Parkin & Shifrah Blustein of the Infringements Working Group to give us the lay of the legal land for those finding themse...

Women's Legal Service Victoria

Co-hosts Jimi & Lizzie are joined by Jess de Vries, Director of Legal Services at Women's Legal Service Victoria, to discuss a number of the incredibl...

Apryl Day - Health based response to public intoxication

​​​​​In this episode of Done By Law we discuss the decriminalisation of public intoxication legislation in Victoria and the implementation of the new...

Gambling Harm

Lauren Levin of Financial Counselling Australia joins Jimi & Britt to discuss the hidden epidemic of gambling harm in Australia.

Health Justice Partnership

Listeners please be advised that in this episode we discuss topics including family and domestic violence, sexual assault, and mental ill health. In t...

Robodebt Report

Amy Schneider from Economic Justice Australia joins hosts Britt & Jimi in their discussion of the recent Robodebt report.

Save Sorry Business

This special week is NAIDOC week, a week in which we celebrate the history, culture and achievements of First Nations people. This episode, we are ver...

Tenant's Rights and the Current Housing Crisis

Housing has become an increasingly desperate situation for so many in the community, and renters are often the most vulnerable and at risk of poverty...

Reconciliation Week & the Voice to Parliament: Myth-busting the Chatter

It’s National Reconciliation Week, and we’re all talking about the Voice to Parliament for First Nations Australians.There’s a lot of myths swirling a...

The ANZAC myth in the 21st century

In this episode of Done by Law, Ingrid and Beth look at the ANZAC legend and its 21st Century legacy – a century during which Australia has continued...

Current Issues in Economic Justice

Lizzy, Jimmy and Britt talk to Sarah Sacher, Law Reform Officer at Economic Justice Australia about some of the big issues in social security law curr...

Environmental Justice Australia - Decolonising environmental justice

In this episode of Done By Law we explore the concept of decolonising environmental justice, and discuss its application to the work of Environmental...

Renters Rights and Renters and Housing Union (RAHU)

Dylan and Indy speak with Eirene Tsolidis Noyce about renter's rights, the 'rental crisis', and RAHU.Learn more about RAHU here: https://rahu.org.au/

Gerard Brody - access to justice hero

This week on Done by Law our very special guest is a true access to justice hero - Gerard Brody. After 10 years as CEO of Consumer Action law Centre,...

Debunking 'de-banking' - financial discrimination in the sex industry

·       Beth and Ingrid look at the issue of de-banking and the impact on people working in the sex industry and in adjacent professions such as strip...

Specialist Family Violence Courts

This week on Done by Law we chat about Specialist Family Violence Courts. Why are they needed? What do they look like? Why aren't these in place alrea...

Cultural competence in First Nations cases

In this episode, we explore the issue of the cultural competency of legal practitioners appearing in matters involving First Nations clients - and in...

Is the family law system broken and how do we fix it?

Women's Lived Experience in Decarceration & Carceral Resistance

In this episode of Done By Law we feature audio from the wonderful seminar ‘Women’s Lived Experience in Decarceration and Carceral Resistance’, held o...

Foreign judges in the Pacific

In this show, we are looking at the phenomenon of using foreign judges in Pacific states in light of the constitutional crisis currently faced by the...

Affirmative Consent

Dylan and Jeremie interview Dr Rachael Burgin, lecturer in criminal justice and criminology at Swinburne Law School and the CEO of Rape and Sexual Ass...

UN oversight of Victorian prisons & the ‘OPCAT’

Mortgage Stress and the Law

Prior to the recent interest rate increase, there was an alarming number of Victorians that were in mortgage stress. About half (44%) of Victorian hou...