George Newhouse

George is the principal solicitor of the National Justice Project and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Technology and Macquarie University. He is well known for his extensive work in fighting for justice for people living with disabilities, the LGBTQI+ community, immigrants, prisoners, asylum seekers, youth detainees, and First Nations people. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Deadly Connections, and is a Committee Member of the Climate Justice Programme.

In addition to his expertise in social justice law, George specialises in defamation, privacy, negligence, property, finance and planning law. He is an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University where he teaches law to the next generation of social justice advocates in the National Justice Project Social Justice Clinic, and he is also the chapter editor of Thomson Reuters The Laws of Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders – Civil Justice Issues.

George co-founded the National Justice Project in 2016 with Dan Mori and Duncan Fine. As the principal solicitor of the National Justice Project his work involves using the law in ways that support and advance social justice and human rights in Australia. It does this by supporting those who are least able to access justice and whose cases can advance human rights within Australia and the Pacific region. In addition the National Justice Project has taken on a number of research, education, advocacy and reform projects such as the Health Justice Program, CopWatch, the Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic, Tech4Justice and the Monash University Social Justice Clinic.