Ms Tania Penovic

Publications

2008

'Testing the boundaries of administraitve detention through the tort of false imprisonment' (2008) 16 Torts Law Journal 156-181.

'Mental harm as an instrument of public policy' (2008) 15(1) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 140-152.

Contributing author : Oxford Australian Legal Dictionary, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
(Categories including constitutional law, torts, international law and human rights law)

2007

'Boatloads of incongruity: The evolution of Australia's offshore processing regime' (with Dastyari, A.), (2007)  Australian Journal of Human Rights, 13(1) 33-62

Book Review: International Migration and Security: Opportunities and Challenges, Guild, E. and van Selm, J (eds), Routledge, 2005 in Global Change, Peace and Security,(2007) 19(3)

Submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission Inquiry on the Law of Abortion on behalf of Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, November 2007

Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on the provisions of the Migration Amendment (Review Provisions) Bill 2006 (with Kneebone, S.)

Conference Papers
'False imprisonment as surrogate claim for promoting personal liberty'. Presented at Castan Centre Workshop, Compensation, Torts and Immigration Detention Monash University March 2007

'Refugee processing and mental health: How far does duty of care extend'. Presented as part of the Refugee Research@Latrobe Seminar Series

'Mental harm as an instrument of public policy'  Presented at Monash University and Kings College London Conference Public Health and Human Rights, Prato, Italy, June 2007

'Seeking asylum in Australia: The path to refuge'.  Presented at the Unpacking the Suitcase: Maintaining the Well Being of Newly Arrived Young People Conference Melbourne, July 2007

2006

Penovic T and Sifris A, 'Children's rights through the lens of immigration detention'. (2006) 20(1) Australian Journal of Family Law,  12-44

Penovic T, Dastyari A and Taylor J, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee on the provisions of the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill (2006)

Appearance before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee on the provisions of the Migrant Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill (2006). Evidence quoted in the Committee's report, June 2006.

Penovic, T. (2006) Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission Review of the Federal Civil Justice System

2005

‘Undermining Australia’s International Standing: the failure to extend human rights protections to indigenous peoples affected by Australian mining companies’ ventures abroad’ Vol 11. No 1 Australian Journal of Human Rights (October 2005) 71-118

‘Racism and the non-citizen child’, paper delivered for the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood and the Victorian Multicultural Commission at the University of Melbourne, 9 November 2005.  

‘Like a Bird in a cage: Children’s Voices and challenges to Australia’s immigration detention regime’ International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood November 2005-11-14 (with Adiva Sifris)

2004

‘Children in Immigration Detention and the Law’, Radio National Perspective, transcript of programme presented on 29 March 2004 available online at http://abc.net.au.rn/talks/perspective/default.htm

‘The separation of powers, Lim and Australia’s ‘voluntary’ detention of children’, presented at Castan Centre for Human Rights Law workshop entitled ‘Children in Immigration Detention: the Policy, the Practice and the Prognosis’, 2 April 2004.

‘The separation of powers, Lim and the ‘voluntary’ immigration detention of children’, (2004) 29 Alternative Law Journal (October 2004)

‘Children in Immigration Detention: The High Court Verdict in B and B and Beyond’, (2004) 29 Alternative Law Journal (with Adiva Sifris)

‘Interest rates in human suffering at an all time low’, (2004) 29 Alternative Law Journal 2 (with Bronwyn Naylor and Adiva Sifris)

2003

'Can you have your say about your neighbour's planning application and salvage your relationship? A study of Mediation in the Planning and Environment List at VCAT' 8 Local Government Law Journal (2003) 116-176 (with Judd Epstein)

'Immigration detention of children: arbitrary deprivation of liberty', 7(2) Newcastle Law Review (2003-2004) 35-48

'Children in Immigration Detention' presented at 21st Annual Law and Society Conference 'Societies and Laws: (Re)act? (Re)create? (Re)form?', 8-10 December 2003, University of Newcastle