Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
To resounding applause, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander delegates from across the country have agreed to a landmark Uluru Statement calling for the establishment of a First Nations鈥 voice enshrined in the constitution. "We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
鈥淲e gather from the furthest corners of this country to discuss a matter of great importance: how we, as the First Peoples of this country, stand in Australia鈥檚 founding legal document 鈥 the Constitution.鈥 In her opening remarks to the Uluru National Convention, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait...
Race Discrimination
Federal racial hatred legislation and the complaints-handling processes of the 黑料情报站 (AHRC) are currently the subjects of an inquiry by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. The Committee鈥檚 鈥楩reedom of speech in Australia鈥 inquiry, due to report by 28...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
黑料情报站 President Gillian Triggs and Deputy Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Robynne Quiggin today launch the Social Justice and Native Title Report 2016. The document is a state-of-the-nation report on the social justice and native title...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Decades of reports and inquiries have largely echoed what Indigenous leaders have long asked for: we want Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be at the heart of any reform agenda involving our people, says Robynne Quiggin. The 2016 Social Justice and Native Title Report details the...
Rights and Freedoms
Speech to SydWest Multicultural Services AGM Edward Santow 鈥 speaking notes 鈥 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Acknowledgements: the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land, the Darug people Dr Chandrika Subramaniyan (Chair, SydWest Multicultural Services) Elfa Moraitakis (CEO, SydWest) Introduction...
Rights and Freedoms
Speech to Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Queensland State Social Work Conference University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus 鈥 Lecture Theatre Room 234, Parnell Building Check against delivery Acknowledgements: the traditional Aboriginal owners of the land, the Turrbal and Jagera...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
I was shocked but not surprised by the ABC鈥檚 Four Corners revelations last Monday night. Incontrovertible CCTV evidence of Aboriginal children subject to demeaning, debilitating and dehumanizing behaviour has galvanised the Australian community and prompted the creation of a Royal Commission with an...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Thank you Galarrwuy for your warm welcome to Gulkula on your country. It is really wonderful to be here on the occasion the 40th anniversary of the Northern Territory Land Rights Act and another successful Garma Festival. I am a Gangulu man from the Dawson Valley in Central Queensland, I acknowledge...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
The recent death of a 10-year-old in the Kimberley is a tragedy and I pass on my condolences to her family at this particularly distressing time. This tragedy has heightened my conviction that the lives of all of our children in Australia are precious and should be protected at all costs. Nearly 20...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
At the heart of this nation, there is a fundamental wrong in the relationship between the First Peoples and non-Indigenous people. We are divided between those who celebrate Australia Day without any thought of the implications of that day, and those who mourn Invasion Day and mark it as Survival Day...
Rights and Freedoms
State and federal governments should reform laws that make offensive acts unlawful and refocus them on protecting free speech and stopping workplace and public harassment. This week a news story broke about a complaint made under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by a Queensland University...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
In Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the country, old wounds are being reopened. Many of our people are being forced to revisit the past trauma of income management and stolen wages. The federal government鈥檚 Healthy Welfare Card has created great concern and contention, as the...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Thank you Donna Ingram for that wonderful welcome to country. I want to pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which we meet, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay respect to the elders past and present.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Acknowledgements Thank you Gillian for your kind introduction and thank you, Yvonne, for your Welcome to Country.
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