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The Same-Sex Marriage Debate. Michael Kirby and Guy Barnett

The Same-Sex Marriage Debate. Michael Kirby and Guy Barnett

Michael Kirby

Marriage is a social institution that has endured for thousands of years, more or less unchanged. Is it now time that same-sex couples were...

Law, politics and sex: A conversation with Michael Kirby

Law, politics and sex: A conversation with Michael Kirby

Michael Kirby

The Hon. Michael Kirby, just awarded Doctor of the University at La Trobe University, speaks to Prof Dennis Altman about his life in the...

Apostasy and homosexuality. Michael Kirby

Apostasy and homosexuality. Michael Kirby

Michael Kirby

Part 1 | Part 2 In this talk at the Parliament of the World's Religions, former High Court Justice Michael Kirby discusses the uneasy...

Michael Kirby on his career of public engagement

Michael Kirby on his career of public engagement

Michael Kirby

Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby returns to his alma mater, the University of Sydney, to deliver an entertaining yet substantial...

Michael Kirby on his career of public engagement (p2)

Michael Kirby on his career of public engagement (p2)

Michael Kirby

Former High Court Justice Michael Kirby returns to his alma mater, the University of Sydney, to deliver an entertaining yet substantial...

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