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Critical Need for Social Housing
A Housing Policy for Social Cohesion - by Peter Norden AO
Published 20 April 2025
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December 2024- Presentation at the 2024 Australian & New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand
Click here to download the presentation.
April 2024 - Time for some Urgent Changes to Our Criminal Justice System
This article by Peter Norden, requested by the Australian Fabian Network, identifies what needs to change.
Read the story here.
Feb 2024 - Indigenous Massacres in Australia's recent history:
Do they amount to genocide as interpreted by international criminal law?
August 2023 - A Pilgrim Walk
The journal notes of Peter's recent Pilgrim Walk from Winchester to Canterbury, south of London.
220 kilometres in two weeks' of trekking. Click here to download
CRIKEY! November 2022
Precisely the wrong direction’: why is Victoria opening a $419m youth prison?
Victoria spends $1.4 million for each young person in detention. That cost is set to jump, and experts say it couldn't be a worse approach.
Victoria's $419m Cherry Creek youth prison is 'the wrong direction’ (crikey.com.au)
November 2022
Peter urges radical change by Federal Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus MP KC, to address the scandal of over imprisonment of Indigenous Peoples throughout Australia.
His Blue Print for Change is to be found in his recent publication:
SEEKING JUSTICE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA
March 2022
The Crime Couch Podcast by Rochelle Jackson.
February 2022
Deakin University Media Release
Seeking Justice publication. Click here to view
November 2021
New Publication !
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Click here to view in High Res PDF
ABC Melbourne radio interview with Raph Epstein
Peter Norden is interviewed by Raph Epstein on ABC radio on the shortcomings of Aged Care Services today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMoSZ14qR0
August 2020
Peter has been reappointed as a member of the Disciplinary Appeals Board of the Victorian Department of Education and Training for a further period of five years (1st August 2020 to 31st July 2025).
June 2020
William & Lonsdale Podcast
LIVES IN THE LAW
Michael Green interviews Peter Norden who has worked for more than 30 years in our criminal justice system.
Michael Green was an AFL player, coach, chairman of selectors, tribunal and appeals board member.
Michael led and managed Green's List, one of the largest lists of Barristers at the Victorian Bar.
Prior to this, Michael had 25 years' experience as a Solicitor.
CLICK HERE To listen to this Podcast in which Peter Norden shares his experience in the law.
February 2019: Deakin University award of Honorary Doctorate to Peter Norden
Peter Norden presented with an Honorary Doctorate by Deakin University, 'for eminent and sustained service to the Australian non-government sector in the field of community services'.
February 2019: Peter Norden with Deakin Chancellor Mr John Stanhope AM and Vice Chancellor Professor Jane den Hollander AO
September 2018
The Professor Tony Vinson Memorial Lecture
Delivered by Professor Peter Norden AO
University of New South Wales, September 2018
1) ABC Radio National ‘Big Ideas’ Podcast of the lecture (click here)
2) Script of the lecture presented by Peter Norden on the evening (click here)
March 2018
KNOCK KNOCK! COALITION’S PLAN FOR WARRANTLESS HOUSE SEARCHES
"It’s only 5 days until the NSW state election comes to a head, and both parties are still announcing policies to try and sway voters to their side. The Coalition on Sunday announced a new trial, giving police the power to search houses are cars of convicted drug dealers without a warrant.
Premier Berejiklian, alongside Police Minister Troy Grant, said these powers could be enacted on anyone who had been convicted of a serious drug offence within the past 10 years.
But are these new laws going too far?"
http://thewire.org.au/story/knock-knock-coalitions-plan-for-warrantless-house-searches/
Five new members appointed to the ABC Advisory Council in 2018
February 2018
Peter Norden appointed an Honorary Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University
"Pentridge: Voices from the Other Side"
Wheeler Centre forum, 30th November 2017.
December 2017
Marriage Act Amendment!
Peter Norden is now available to conduct ‘same sex marriages’ following the recent legislative changes in Australia.
Detailed information can be obtained on his new website:
July 2017
Crime Prevention, not 'law & order'!
June 2017
"The Brosnan Centre: from Community Service to Social Action" (January 2017)
(reflections on 40 years since Peter Norden founded The Brosnan Centre and Jesuit Social Services in 1977)
"Safe and Inclusive Learning Communities" (December 2016)
(a national consultation report completed by Peter Norden for Edmund Rice Education Australia in supporting sexual and gender diversity in its 53 schools across Australia)
ABC Advisory Council
December 2016
Peter was appointed a "Fellow" of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology in recognition of his contribution to the field of criminology over a period of 40 years. This award was presented at the Annual Conference of the Society in Hobart in December 2016
December 2016
For the 5th year in a row, Peter was acknowledged as on of RMIT's top media performers.
June 2016
The June 2016 edition of the Australian Journal of Human Rights (22.1) contains an article by Peter Norden, entitled: Not So Straight.
The article discusses the discrimination that currently operates in many Catholic secondary schools across Australia in relation to same sex attracted students.
The article (click here) addresses important issues of human rights affecting GLBTI students enrolled at Catholic secondary schools across the country, about one in five of all secondary students in Australia.
August 2015
Peter was reappointed as a Board Member of the Victorian Department of Education and Training Disciplinary Appeals Board, for a further period of three years.
