Inaugural John Emerson AM Oration
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The Legal Practice Section's Not-for-Profit Legal Practice and Charities Committee hosted the Inaugural John Emerson AM Oration in Melbourne, 7 August 2019.
The Oration was delivered by Robert Fitzgerald AM and chaired by Jennifer Batrouney QC, Chair of the Law Council's Not-for-Profit and Legal Practice and Charities Committee.
Robert, a lawyer, has experience in public, private and non-profits sectors. He was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, a Productivity Commissioner since 2004 and inaugural Chair of the ACNC Advisory Board. He is a Patron of Justice Connect.