Vol 13, Issue 1
The Newsletter of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Volume 13, Issue 1, April 2016 President’s Column The conference was opened by the South Australian Attorney- General, John Rau, who spoke affectionately and positively about the role of associations such as ours in advising on reforms. I remember well his predecessor, the current speaker of the SA parliament, Michael Atkinson, who was memorable for his opening remarks at the 2007 conference. In essence he said that criminologists were not people he was paying much heed to. He preferred, he said, to listen to his electorate on matters to do with justice. It was an interesting speech and one that attracted a great deal of comment. In hindsight, it did us all a favour. All speakers after that comment, and for the rest of the week, prefaced their remarks by saying “despite what the Attorney-General has said, this research is highly valuable” and then spoke about policy imperatives. The Flinders conference was the 28th annual conference, but it actually marked 30 years since the first conference in 1985, convened at St Hilda’s College in Melbourne, so we celebrated a milestone in that respect. President Rick Sarre musing at the 28th Annual ANZSOC Conference at Flinders University in Adelaide The organising team for the 9th annual postgraduate conference event was composed of Rhiannon Bandiera, Adam Pocrnic and Greetings! Diego Dominguez Mejia, and to them I offer my sincere thanks also. The first such conference was, in fact, convened at Flinders in My first duty is to record my profound thanks to the conference 2007 and each one has been a great success ever since.
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