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We are living at a critical time in Australia’s emergence as a just Nation. Join us at the CRA National Justice Seminar to be inspired, challenged, and uplifted as we approach the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Date: Wednesday 26 July 2023
Time: 10.00am – 2.30pm
Mode: Via Zoom
SPEAKERS TOPICS
Rachel Perkins The End of Silence and Yes 2023.
Shireen Morris Indigenous Constitutional Recognition - Issues and Developments.
Frank Brennan SJ The Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Catholic Social Teaching, and the Referendum.
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Register online: https://events.humanitix.com/cra-national-justice-seminar-lift-your-voice
Enquiries by phone: 02 9557 2695 or by email: EA@catholicreligious.org.au
SPEAKER BIOS
Ms Rachel Perkins is an Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman, a multi-award-winning filmmaker, a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and with Danny Gilbert, Co-Chair of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition. AIRC is the organisation co-ordinating the Yes Alliance to secure a majority Yes vote at this year’s referendum. Her recent productions include Mystery Road (2019 & 2020) TV series, Total Control (2019) TV series, The Australian Wars (2022), a three-part documentary about the Australian frontier wars.
Dr Shireen Morris is a constitutional lawyer, senior lecturer, and director of the Radical Centre Reform Lab at Macquarie University Law School. She has spent 12 years working with Indigenous leadership including Noel Pearson and the Cape York Institute, devising and advocating the concept of a constitutionally guaranteed Indigenous Voice, the subject of her PhD thesis. Since 2020, Shireen has been focussed on building multicultural and multifaith support for the Voice. Shireen delivered the 2022 John Button Oration on radical centre economic reform. Her recent books include Statements from the Soul (2023) and A First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution (2020).
Rev Dr Frank Brennan is a Jesuit priest and human rights lawyer. Frank is Rector of Newman College at the University of Melbourne, a Distinguished Fellow of the PM Glynn Institute and Adjunct Professor at the Thomas More Law School of Australian Catholic University, and research professor at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture. Frank serves on the Boards of the National Apology Foundation for Indigenous Australians and Jesuit Social Services. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians. His recent books include An Indigenous Voice to Parliament: Considering a Constitutional Bridge (2023)