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Improving our response to elder abuse

John Chesterman
Dr John Chesterman
Public Advocate for Queensland 
The Public Advocate

John Chesterman is the Queensland Public Advocate. A lawyer and historian by training, John was previously Victoria’s Deputy Public Advocate, and before that he was an academic.  Among other things, John undertook a Churchill Fellowship on the topic of adult safeguarding, and his books include, as co-author, The politics of human rights in Australia (CUP).