Julian Burnside, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Julian Burnside

Australian barrister and activist

Date of Birth: 09-Jun-1949

Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Profession: writer, lawyer, human rights activist, children's writer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Social Profiles:

JulianBurnside

Julian William Kennedy Burnside AO QC (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author.
He practises principally in commercial litigation, trade practices and administrative law.
He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide variety of high-profile cases.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009, "for service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law." He unsuccessfully stood for the Division of Kooyong at the 2019 federal election as an Australian Greens candidate, but achieved the highest vote for the Greens in the seat at a federal election and allowed the party to enter into the two-party preferred vote.