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Christine was recently featured in the podcast “The psychology of successful women”

30 AUGUST 2022


NSW Bar News contributor, ‘Enough of the “horseplay”, expose on sexual harassment at the Bar.

AUTUMN 2021


Featured in the Herald Sun newspaper – Alumni success - Remarkable Woman Award, Recognition from my high school, Mentone Girls’ Grammar School.

16 JULY 2020


Inclusion in the Who’s Who of Australian Women

2009-2020


Participant in the 2015 GE Australia-Papua New Guinea Emerging Leaders Dialogue, Lowy Institute, and subsequent publication Challenging Approaches to Gender Inequality.

1-2 DECEMBER 2015


Teaching faculty, the Law and Justice Sector Program, Intensive Advocacy Skills Workshop, PNG, July 2014, 2015; founder, Empowering Women in the Law in PNG – mentoring program for PNG female law trainees in partnership with VicBar and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, July 2015 and development and participation in 2016 and 2017 program.

JULY 2014, 2015


Appearance before Senate Committee Inquiry into the delivery and effectiveness of Australia’s bilateral aid program in Papua New Guinea on behalf of the Victorian Bar

22 SEPTEMBER 2015


Speaker, South Pacific Lawyers Conference, Brisbane, “Women in the Law in the Pacific”.

17-18 SEPTEMBER 2015


JUNE 2015


JANUARY 2014


Panellist, Forum on Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare, (with Commissioner Fitzgerald).

13 OCTOBER 2014 & 30 APRIL 2014


30 MAY 2012


Participant in the ANZPAA NIFS (peak body for forensic science in New Zealand and Australia) expert evidence workshop.

2012


Participant, Vis International Arbitration Moot, Vienna, for Monash University. The moot fosters the study and practice of international commercial sales law and arbitration.

2002