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current cyber risks, qr codes

Current Cyber Risks

Current Cyber Risks Brad Lyons has long been involved in the private intelligence community, from his work as an OSINT developer, trainer, and consultant. Brad has consulted with some of the largest companies in Australia and around the world in the field of tech development, banking and finance, and intelligence. Brad has worked on citizen …

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abuse in aged care, elder abuse

Dealing with serious incidents, complaints and investigations in the aged care sector

Dealing with serious incidents, complaints and investigations in the aged care sector Victor Harcourt and Anthony Massaro from Russell Kennedy Lawyers present this webinar. Victor leads the Aged Care team at Russell Kennedy and is a recognised senior practitioner in administrative and disciplinary law, health and aged care, prosecutions, government law and alternative dispute resolution. …

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communication intermediary

Communication Intermediaries

Intermediaries across the Justice Continuum: From Police Investigative Interviews to Jury Trials. Rukiya Stein has been practising as an Accredited Witness Intermediary in New South Wales since April 2016. She is also an independent communication Intermediary working with children, young people and adults with both identified and unidentified communication needs. In addition to working as …

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forensic pathology

Forensic Pathology and Coroners’ Death Investigations

Forensic Pathology and Coroners’ Death Investigations Professor David Ranson  is Deputy Director and Head of Forensic Services at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine. In his current role David manages the delivery of forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, and related forensic science services to Victorian justice system, including the Coroners Court, Victoria Police and key …

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local government

Local Government Governance

Local government governance Todd Hopwood is an experienced Governance, Customer Service and Risk Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the local government industry. He is skilled in investigations, privacy law, government, risk management, and fraud and corruption prevention. Todd is also an advocate for mental health and has been a finalist in the …

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coercive interviews

Investigative Interviewing for Coercive Examinations

Investigative Interviewing for Coercive Investigations Chris Bonnici is the Deputy Public Interest Monitor for the State of Victoria He has previously conducted over 1300 coercive examinations into organised crime and counter-terrorism as counsel assisting the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) — overwhelmingly resistant witnesses He is trained in the PEACE model of investigative interviewing in …

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rapport based interviewing

The Mendez Principles and Rapport Based Interviews

The Mendez Principles and Rapport-Based Interviews Ray Bull is a British psychologist and Professor of Criminal Investigation (part-time) at the University of Derby. on from a call in 2016 by UN Special Rapporteur Juan E. Mendez for a ‘universal protocol’ on standards for non-coercive interviewing methods, new Principles for Effective Interviewing were developed and published. …

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vaccinations in the workplace

Vaccinations in the Workplace

Vaccinations in the Workplace Kathryn Dent is a Partner at HWB Lawyers. Kathryn has had extensive experience as a workplace relations lawyer. For more than 20 years she has advised and represented employers in non-litigious as well as litigious labor and employment law matters. Her experience spans a range of industries including education, insurance, construction, …

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Whistleblower professional development for investigators

Whistleblowing – Lessons Learnt

Whistleblowing – Lessons Learnt Darren Murphy is CEO and Founder of Core Integrity. Darren is a passionate integrity expert who works with corporate, government and professional sporting organisations to help them protect their reputation, people and bottom lines. Hi expertise spans his 25-year career in law enforcement as a detective in the Fraud Squad with …

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employer duty of care, workplace investigations, professional development for investigators

Do employers owe a duty of care to employees during a workplace investigation?

An expert industrial relations lawyer and partner at Lander and Rogers, Sydney NSW, Aaron practices in the areas of industrial relations and employment law, with his practice covering all aspects of these speciality areas.  Aaron provides strategic and practical advice on all aspects of the speciality areas relating to employment, industrial relations, discrimination, and work …

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trauma and the brain, implications of trauma for interviews, professional development for investigators

Trauma and the brain, implications of trauma for interviews

For the last 21 years Alison Grander-Brown has been specializing in the transformational growth and development of challenging people with complex trauma histories in provincial and federal prisons in Canada. Alison co-authored ‘Trauma informed legal practice, a lawyers toolkit’ which is referred to in this 1 hour webinar. Alison’s work has been deeply impacted by the …

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Investigations and mental health

Harriet Witchell, founder and CEO of MyKludo has investigations business for over 30 years, serving as a police office in the UK and Australia before establishing one of Australia’s premium workplace investigation firms in 2001. Harriet was a lecturer in Policing Investigations for a number of years and I holds qualifications in a range of …

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interviewing children, investigative interviewing, reportable conduct, child protection, professional development for investigators

Interviewing children concerning allegations of reportable conduct

Eleonora De Michele has been working in the Welfare Services sector, specialising in child protection service delivery, for the past 40 years in both government and non-government organisations. Her extensive experience includes working in frontline statutory Child Protection work as a Case Worker, supervisor, senior manager; overseeing Child Protection and Out of Home Care policy …

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autism, investigative interviewing, professional development for investigators, cognitive interview

Evidence-based strategies for interviewing people with autism

Excellent presentation and so relevant and right. Shows the need for continual training to not only improve but maintain skills. Senior Government Investigator Dr Maras presents the research on why existing investigative interviewing practices such as cognitive interviewing do not work with well for people with autism. She discusses the challenges and evidence based strategies …

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