FIGHTING FOR YOUR RIGHTS! 

 

Andrea and her family escaped Communist Romania.

 

Andrea's background as a refugee who came to Australia not knowing any English

has inspired her in the work that she does today. 

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Andrea has worked with vulnerable communities across Australia and abroad since 1997. 

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Andrea is a trained international human rights lawyer with a Juris Doctor

from the University of Canberra and a Masters of International Human Rights Law 

from the Australian National University. 

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As an admitted Solicitor in the ACT Supreme Court (2013), Andrea has held various legal roles since 2009, working in family, criminal, administrative, employment and human rights law.

 

As a public policy expert, Andrea has worked in legal policy roles in Government, including with the Attorney-Generals Department working in, and to Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Immigration, the Department of Employment, the Health Department, Justice and Community Services and Corrections. 

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As a prolific political lobbyist, Andrea has worked in and to all levels of Parliament across Australia, including Federal, State and local Governments advocating for human rights and legislative reform for the most vulnerable. 

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As a political lobbyist, Andrea has made over 18 parliamentary submissions to various United Nations and Human Right Legal Parliamentary Inquiries, including on the matters of child trafficking, organ harvesting, women's rights, refugees rights and other humanitarian maters at

Senate Committee Inquiries and Hearings, making submissions and

legal recommendations for legislative reform to Federal, State and Local Governments.​

Andrea has engaged in political strategic campaigning since 2008.

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As an international human rights advocate, Andrea has worked for the United Nations International Organisation for Migration with refugees, and is the Founder and

CEO of the anti-slavery Human Rights lobbying advocacy education organisation: 

Fighting for Justice Foundation working to protect women and children from slavery,

human trafficking, exploitation and se*ual servitude internationally

for over six years in the Austral-Asia region since 2009. 

 

Andrea has run various international humanitarian and human rights projects

globally since 2001. ​

 

 

As an international keynote speaker,

Andrea has provided legal, human rights and biblical justice training

at conferences, seminars and workshops as a Human Rights legal advocate

and legal educator and led Anti-Slavery Projects

into Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, America,

and has had the opportunity to speak in Geneva. ​

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Andrea has been a prolific and powerful keynote speaker at

over 36 national and international legal human rights,

advocacy, biblical justice conferences since 2006. 

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As a trained and experienced Mediator and Conciliator (College of Law 2018),

Andrea brings a unique skill set with training and experience as a

Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, a lawyer, human rights & business. 

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Andrea has successfully mediated various legal human rights and

commercial, contractual, and other business matter.

 

Andrea has conciliated matters to not only resolution, but won compensation for her clients before various Human Rights, Fair Work, and Industrial Relations Commissions and Tribunals. 

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As a legal academic, Andrea has published over 38 publications

which cuts across several human rights legal matters. 

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Andrea has spoken at national and international conferences since 2005,

has published articles on human rights and is an author. 

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Andrea has taught law, including business law, contracts, torts, consumer law, corporations law,

strategic management, leadership and organisational behaviour at the University level,

while undertaking a PhD in constitutional and human rights law.

 

Andrea continues to lecture passionately online and loves mentoring leaders!  

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Andrea has preached and taught the Bible to rural remote,

national and international communities since 1997. 

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With a Diploma in Theology (ACT 2002) and an Advanced Diploma in Christian Counselling and Therapy (AIFC 2005) in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Andrea has worked as a Youth Pastor, a Chaplain in Schools, and was ordained as an Apostle by Jubilee Ministries in America in 2016. 

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Andrea is a passionate spiritual mentor for leaders from all walks of life! 

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As a refugee child from a Communist country, Andrea is very passionate about

protecting our inalienable rights and liberties and our God-given freedoms!