Meg Good
Dr Meg Good was a core member of the Voiceless team for over six years, holding senior management and legal counsel roles. Although she now works full-time as a Climate Campaigner at the Australian Conservation Foundation, she continues to serve Voiceless as a Board Director and Grants Advisor. Meg is also a co-founder of the Australian Alliance for Animals.
Prior to her work in the animal protection sector, Meg was a sessional academic at the University of Tasmania where she completed her PhD in environmental human rights law and taught across a wide range of arts and law units. She coordinated the UTAS Animal Law course and previously assisted with the delivery of the Macquarie University Animal Law elective. Through her role at Voiceless, she had the opportunity to deliver guest lectures into many of Australia’s animal law courses across the country.
Meg is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Tasmania School of Law and an Honorary Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Bond University Faculty of Law. She has held positions with various animal law organisations, including the Animal Law Institute, the Barristers Animal Welfare Panel and the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal. Meg is currently on the Executive Committee of the Australasian Animal Law Teachers’ and Researchers’ Association. In recognition of her voluntary animal law work, Meg was the inaugural recipient of the RSPCA Australia Sybil Emslie Animal Law Scholarship in 2016.
Prior to joining Voiceless as a staff member, Meg was a Voiceless Grant Recipient (grant awarded to run Tasmania’s first animal law conference), member of the Voiceless Legal Advisory Council and a regular speaker in the Voiceless Animal Law Lecture Series. She has had a lifelong passion for animal protection, and believes in the power of the law and education to help improve the welfare and protection of Australia’s animals.