Winter is Coming: Citizenship and Local Government

In the shadow of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta the Nerds brave the Sydney winter chill to talk about three facets of the citizenship debate - same-sex marriage, stripping citizenship from terror suspects and asylum seeking - and the looming issue of local government reform in New South Wales, as informed by the new report Why Local Government Matters (http://www.acelg.org.au/news/local-government-does-matter).

Hosts:

Dr Stewart Jackson, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Dr Amanda Elliot, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Sydney

Guests:

Dr Eidin O'Shea UTS Centre for Local Government http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/eidin.oshea Dr Rayner Thwaites Sydney Law School, University of Sydney http://sydney.edu.au/law/about/people/profiles/rayner.thwaites.php Associate Professor Roberta Ryan Director, Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government. UTS http://www.acelg.org.au/associate-professor-roberta-ryan Dr Joesph Drew University of New England http://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/business/jdrew