Join us for In Conversation with guest speaker George Newhouse

George Newhouse attended Sydney Grammar School and then studied Law and Commerce at the University of New South Wales. Newhouse then joined JPMorgan in Sydney as a corporate finance executive then worked as a capital markets lawyer for Clifford Chance in London. He became an accredited mediator and was a member of the Consumer Trader Tenancy Tribunal and a mediator for the Workers Compensation.

In addition to his expertise in social justice law, Newhouse specialises in defamation, privacy, negligence, property, finance and planning law. He is an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University where he teaches law and is also the chapter editor of Thomson Reuters The Laws of Australia: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders – Civil Justice Issues.

In 2016, Newhouse co-founded the National Justice Project with Dan Mori and Duncan Fine. As the principal solicitor of the Project his work involves using the law in ways that support and advance social justice and human rights in Australia. It does this by supporting those who are least able to access justice and whose cases can advance human rights within Australia and the Pacific region. In addition, the National Justice Project has taken on a number of research, education, advocacy and reform projects such as the Aboriginal Health Project. In August 2008, Newhouse was invited to participate in the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd‘s Australia 2020 summit in the area of indigenous affairs.
George Newhouse is well known in Australia for his human rights work with refugees, former Immigration detainees and Aboriginal Australians. His extensive social justice work was acknowledged in 2017 when he was awarded Stand Up’s Ron Castan Humanitarian award and again in 2019 when he was awarded the Australian Lawyers Alliance Civil Justice Award.

This event will be both in-person at Emanuel Synagogue and online.
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