Damien Carrick is a lawyer and presenter of Radio National’s The Law Report.
Damien is fascinated by the inner workings of our legal system and by how individuals grapple with its complexities as they strive to achieve “justice”.
Damien, a qualified lawyer, joined the ABC in 1996 as the producer of Radio National’s The Law Report. For most of 2000 he worked as a reporter in ABC Radio Current Affairs before becoming presenter of The Law Report in January 2001.
He’s also worked as a legal writer for the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission and written for Australian Lawyer Magazine. Before his career in the media, Damien worked as a solicitor in various glass towers in Melbourne’s CBD and was a long-time volunteer solicitor at his local community legal centre in St Kilda.
Damien has a Law/Economics degree from Monash University and a post-graduate Diploma in Journalism from RMIT.
Our panel of five discuss the Aussie fair go - what it means and to whom. Is it still true, relevant or indeed fair?
