Congratulations to our Australia Day Honours recipients
Once again Macquarie alumni have shone in the Australia Day Honours list, with 13 alumni recognised this year. Richard Ackland AM (BLegalStudies,1986) was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the print and television media, through reporting on legal issues, and as a publisher. Dr Stephen Giugni OAM (PhD, 1991) received the Medal of the Order of Australia for se...
Intelligence and security studies alumna secures top consulting job
Macquarie’s Master of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism with the Master of International Security Studies alumna, Sarah Iannantuono recently completed her double degree and has embarked on an exciting career with KPMG. She has secured a role at KPMG is as a consultant in the Forensic Department where she undertakes a range of duties from active investigations to digital foren...
MGSM Alumni Christmas party
Wednesday 2 December 2015 marked Jane Ferguson’s first MGSM Alumni Christmas party. More than 80 guests gathered in Sydney CBD to celebrate the festive season with an evening of cocktails, canapés and mesmerising music from performer Jake Meadows and his electric harp. Of course, the evening also offered the chance for our alumni to reconnect with old friends and to make valuable new connec...
Gillian Triggs makes strong case for social justice at Tony Blackshield lecture
“What are the safeguards on democratic liberties if Parliament itself is complicit in expanding executive power to the detriment of the judiciary and ultimately of all Australian citizens?” asked Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs in her keynote address at the recent Tony Blackshield lecture. The event, which was attended by more than 130 alumni, recognised the legal education legacy of ...
Alumna wins prestigious Stanner Award for Indigenous water rights research
Dr Virginia Marshall, the first Indigenous woman to receive a PhD from the Macquarie Law School, has received the Stanner Award for her thesis on Aboriginal water rights. The manuscript was the unanimous winner in the competition, which was open to all aspiring Indigenous authors of academic works. Through her research, Virginia is aiming to foster a deeper understanding of Aboriginal ...
Research Spotlight: Dr David Mullan
Being asked to help a client create and sell ‘weather futures’, which allows you to buy a sunny, 32 degree day in November, was a sharp wake-up call for then corporate lawyer Dr David Mullan. It made him realise that not enough had been done to change the regulation of financial products since the global financial crisis. He returned to university in 2011 to research whether consumers w...