Speaking Up por Gillian Triggs - 2018

Melbourne University Press, 2018

Melbourne, V.I.C. Australia: Melbourne University Press, 2018 The dust jacket has been given a clear plastic protective cover. The page edges are lightly tanned. 300 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Melbourne, Carlton: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2018. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), few sepia (brown-tinted) photos, colour photos & drawings, illustrated endpapers, minor edgewear jacket, bottom cover little rubbed. 300 pp. This is the memoirs of Gillian Triggs, who has been a law professor at both Melbourne and Sydney Universities. She was President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) from 2012 to 2017, which became controversial, and hhe withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny. She shares the values that have guided her convictions and the causes she has championed. This passionate memoir is a call to everyone who wants a fairer world.

Hardback. New. As president of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs advocated for the disempowered, the disenfranchised, the marginalised. She withstood relentless political pressure and media scrutiny as she defended the defenceless for five tumultuous years. How did this aspiring ballet dancer, dignified daughter of a tank commander and eminent law academic respond when appreciative passengers on a full airplane departing Canberra greeted her with a round of applause? Speaking Up shares with readers the values that have guided Triggs' convictions and the causes she has championed. She dares women to be a little vulgar and men to move beyond their comfort zones to achieve equity for all. And she will not rest until Australia has a Bill of Rights. Triggs' passionate memoir is an irresistible call to everyone who yearns for a fairer world.

Melbourne University Press, 2018. Hardcover. New. 304 pages. 9.45x6.42x1.10 inches.

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