http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/adam-johnston/ Adam Johnston has a B.A. LL.B. (Macquarie) Graduated and Admitted 2005.  He has been a Parliamentary Intern with the Senate, a delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention and made a torch bearer during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Professionally, Adam works as an Investigations Officer for the NSW Ombudsman and has also worked for the Energy and Water Ombudsman NSW. He is also currently a member of the Government Solicitors Committee of the NSW Law Society and serves on various advisory panels for local Area Health Service and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Spastic Centre of NSW. en Copyright 2012 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Sat, 26 May 2012 20:00:49 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/reserving-the-right-to-protect-our-genetic-code/ It is encouraging to see that a spirit of bipartisanship is being brought to the issue of patenting human genes. However, it will take more than a recent House of Representatives motion calling for an end to the patenting of isolated human DNA to achieve change. Despite the US Federal Court finding patents for the BRCA1 and 2 genes invalid, the weight of precedent is against the finding being upheld. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Adam Johnston) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/reserving-the-right-to-protect-our-genetic-code/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/reserving-the-right-to-protect-our-genetic-code/#item4428 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:46:01 +0000 Adam Johnston | Author bios | The Punch