Griffith Lecture

This is a recording of the free public lecture by The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG titled "Fundamental Human Rights and Religious Apostasy".

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In this year's Griffith Lecture, Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia examined the problem of reconciling universal fundamental human rights with religious beliefs that forbid people born into a religious faith abandoning that belief and, worse still, insisting on public conversion to another belief.

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