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The lawyers who fled fascism, and started again in Australia
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Around 300 European lawyers fled totalitarian regimes and arrived in Australia between the 1920s and 1950s, only to find their qualifications and experience counted for little. Some were interned as 'enemy aliens', others were sent to work in the fields and factories. A new podcast, Emergency Exit, explores their stories and the intellectual legacy they left behind. Guest: Katherine Biber, historian and Professor of Law, University of Technology, Sydney Podcast: Emergency Exit Producer: Ali Benton
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It's an old story. You flee your country for your life only to find yourself in a land that scorns your skills, your expertise, your qualifications, and you have to start all over again. A few months ago we were talking on this show about musicians who fled Nazi Europe and how the Australian Musicians Union did its best to keep them out of orchestras. It
was a great welcome we gave them. But today the subject is lawyers. About 300 European lawyers landed on our shores before, during and immediately after World War II. The story of their escape from fascism in Europe and their reception here is explored in a new podcast from the University of Technology. And the podcast is called Emergency Exit.
and legal professor Katherine Byber, who's in the podcast, has investigated the impact of these men, and it was mostly men, in Australia. I was talking to Katherine early last year about her book on the outlaw Governor Brothers. So Katherine, it's welcome back to Late Night Live.
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