This speech was delivered by Sally Walker as her Inaugural Professorial Lecture at the Law School,
University of Melbourne on October 31, 1993. It was also part of a series of seminars which
launched the Law School's Centre for Media and Telecommunications Law and Policy. At the conclusion
of the address, the Response and Vote of Thanks was made by David Flint, Dean of Law and
Legal Practice, University ofTechnology, Sydney. In the course of his speech, Professor Flint commented
that one hundred ninety-three years ago in the US, the Harvard Law Review published a
paper by Louis D Brandeis, himselfafuture CJ, and Samuel D Warren, 'The Right to Privacy'. This
paper was generally seen as seminal in the development in the American common law of a right to
privacy.... [today's lecture] has the potential, with [Sally Walker's] other works, to play a similarly
significant role in the development of Australian law in this field.'