Andreea Lachsz

PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney

Andreea has a particular interest in the rights of detained people, having completed her Churchill Fellowship on culturally appropriate implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and previously volunteered as a humanitarian observer with the Australian Red Cross Immigration Detention Monitoring Program (visiting facilities in Australia, PNG and Nauru). She is Head of Policy,

Recent articles by Andreea Lachsz

3 ways the Victorian government’s bail reforms fall short – and why it must embrace ‘Poccum’s Law’

3 ways the Victorian government’s bail reforms fall short – and why it must embrace ‘Poccum’s Law’

The bail reform bill tabled in the Victorian parliament this week seeks to undo some of the worst parts of the Bail Act, which was condemned as a “complete and unmitigated disaster” in the coronial inquest into the passing of Gunditjmara, Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Veronica Nelson in 2020.