2024 Red Cross Oration

The 2024 Red Cross Oration is brought to you in partnership by the Australian Red Cross and the University of Tasmania.

The experts

Sanushka Mudaliar is the Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Global Migration Lab at the Australian Red Cross. She has over 20 years of experience in working in Australia, China, Singapore and the U.K on policy advocacy, research and global program management related to migration. Sanushka has worked for Oxfam Australia, the Association for Women's Rights in Development and the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at Singapore Management University, and as a specialist consultant on labour migration and human rights advising United Nations bodies (ILO, IOM, UN Women), and regional intergovernmental bodies (African Union, ASEAN) amongst others.

Dr Tamara Wood is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law. She researches in the fields of international refugee law, regional refugee law (with a focus on Africa), free movement agreements, complementary pathways to protection, and displacement in the context of natural hazards, disasters and climate change. She has published widely on refugee protection and forced migration, including in leading international law journals such as the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and the International Journal of Refugee Law. She has acted as a consultant and advisor to UNHCR, IOM, Platform on Disaster Displacement, Nansen Initiative on Disaster-Induced Cross-Border Displacement, Institute for Security Studies Africa and the World Bank. Dr Wood is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW; a member of the Advisory Committee for the Platform on Disaster Displacement; founder and Steering Group member of the Climate Mobility Africa Research Network (CMARN), and member of the International Journal of Refugee Law Case Law Editorial Team. She lectures in international refugee law, regional refugee protection and Australian public law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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Pre-event refreshments
Head to the venue early and enjoy complimentary refreshments from 5.30pm.

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