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Referendum Council
The ''Uluru Statement from the Heart'' is a 2017 petition to the people of Australia, written and endorsed by the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders selected as delegates to the First Nations National Constitutional Convention. The document calls for substantive constitutional change and structural reform through the creation of two new institutions; a constitutionally protected First Nations Voice and a Makarrata Commission, to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and First Nations. Such reforms should be implemented, it is argued, both in recognition of the continuing sovereignty of Indigenous peoples and to address structural power differences that have led to severe disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. These reforms can be summarised as Voice, Treaty and Truth. In October 2017, the then Coalition government rejected the Voice proposal, characterising it as a "radical" constitutional change that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Voice To Parliament
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, also known as the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, the First Nations Voice or simply the Voice, was a proposed Australian federal advisory body to comprise Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, intended to represent the views of Indigenous communities. The Voice as proposed by the Albanese government would have had the power to make representations to the Parliament of Australia and Australian Government, executive government on matters relating to Indigenous Australians. The specific form of the Voice was to be determined by legislation passed by Parliament had the referendum succeeded. A 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum, referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to Constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, recognise Indigenous Australians in the document by wikt:prescribe, prescribing the Voice was held on 14 October 2023. It was unsuccessful, with a majority of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Bowden, Yothu Yindi CEO, Signing The Uluru Statement
Denise may refer to: * Denise (given name), people with the given name ''Denise'' * Denise (computer chip), a video graphics chip from the Amiga computer * "Denise" (song), a 1963 song by Randy & the Rainbows * Denise, Mato Grosso, a municipality in Brazil * ''Denise'', an 1885 play by Alexander Dumas ''fils'' * SP-350 Denise, a small submarine also known as the "Diving saucer" * A brand name of desogestrel See also * Hurricane Denise, a list of tropical cyclones named Denise * Saint Denise (other) *Denice (other) Denice is an Italian commune. Denice may also refer to: * Denicé, a French commune * Denice (given name), a list of people with the given name Denice See also * Denise (other) * Denyce * Denyse {{disambiguation, geo ... * Denyse, a given name {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Turnbull
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as Liberal Party of Australia, leader of the Liberal Party and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Division of Wentworth, Wentworth from 2004 to 2018. Born in Sydney, Turnbull graduated from the University of Sydney as a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws, before attending Brasenose College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholar, earning a Bachelor of Civil Law degree. For more than two decades, he worked as a journalist, lawyer, merchant banker, and venture capitalist. He was Chair of the Australian Republic Movement, Australian Republican Movement from 1993 to 2000, and was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful "Yes" campaign in the 1999 Australian republic referendum, 1999 republic referendum. He was first elected to the Australian House of Repres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Grant (journalist)
Stan Grant (born 30 September 1963) is an Australian (Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharawal) journalist, writer and radio and television presenter, since the 1990s. He has written and spoken on Indigenous Australian, Indigenous issues and his Aboriginal Australian identity, Aboriginal identity. He is a Wiradjuri man. Early life and education Grant was born on 30 September 1963 in Griffith, New South Wales, the son of Stan Grant (Wiradjuri elder), Stan Grant Sr, an Aboriginal elder, elder of the Wiradjuri people and Elizabeth Grant (nee Cameron), born near Coonabarabran, the daughter of a white woman and a Gamilaraay, Kamilaroi Aboriginal man. The Wiradjuri are an Aboriginal Australian people from the south-west inland region of New South Wales. He spent much of his childhood in inner Victoria (Australia), Victoria, where the Wiradjuri people also have roots. Grant spent his high school years in Canberra at Ginninderra High. Career Journalism Grant has more than 30 years of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Gooda
Mick Gooda is an Aboriginal Australian public servant. He has particularly served as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2009 to 2016 and as Co-Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory from 2016 to 2017. He is a descendant of the Gangulu people of Central Queensland. Career Gooda was previously the chief executive officer of the Aboriginal Health Cooperative Research Centre. He was also a long-serving officer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. He was the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights Commission from 2009 to 2016. In 2016, Gooda and Margaret White were appointed as co-Commissioners for the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory. Gooda was appointed as a member of the Expert Panel on Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Gleeson
Anthony Murray Gleeson (born 30 August 1938) is an Australian former judge who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1998 to 2008. Gleeson was born in Wingham, New South Wales, and studied law at the University of Sydney. He was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1963 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1974, becoming one of the state's leading barristers. Gleeson was appointed Chief Justice of New South Wales in 1988, serving until his elevation to the High Court in 1998. He and Samuel Griffith (appointed 1903) are the only people to have been elevated directly from the chief justiceship of a state to the chief justiceship of the High Court. As required by the constitution, he retired from the court when he reached his 70th birthday. In October 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Gleeson's daughter, Jacqueline Gleeson, will be elevated to the High Court following the retirement of Justice Virginia Bell. Early life Gleeson was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Stott Despoja
Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja AO (born 9 September 1969) is an Australian diplomat, gender equality advocate, former Australian of the Year nominee, and former politician. Starting her career in student politics, she became an advisor to the Australian Democrats and was appointed to the Australian Senate in 1995 at the age of 26. At the time, she was the youngest woman to serve in Federal Parliament. She went on to become deputy leader of the Democrats in 1997 and then federal leader from 2001 to 2002. She retired from the Senate in 2008 as the longest-serving senator from her party. She has remained active in the public sphere, working with government and non-profit organisations. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2019 for her work on gender equality. Stott Despoja was the founding chair of Our Watch, a national foundation to prevent violence against women and children, and served as national Ambassador for Women and Girls from 2013 to 2016. She was als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Demetriou
Andrew Demetriou (born 14 April 1961) is an Australian businessman, sports administrator, and former Australian rules football player who was chief executive officer (CEO) of the Australian Football League (AFL) up to June 2014. Demetriou played 103 games for the North Melbourne Football Club between 1981 and 1987, finishing his playing career with a three-game stint for in 1988. Chairing several companies after his retirement from playing, he was appointed CEO of the AFL Players Association in 1998, and was responsible for negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement between the league and the players. Demetriou was made CEO of the AFL in 2003, replacing Wayne Jackson. In his role as head of the AFL Commission, he was responsible for a number of changes, including the expansion of the league from 16 to 18 teams, the restructuring of the tribunal system, and the brokering of two new television rights deals. Early life Demetriou is the youngest son of Greek Cypriot im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Davis
Megan Jane Davis (born October 1975) is a Scientia Professor, international human rights lawyer and constitutional law expert. She is currently the Harvard University Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australia Studies and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. She holds the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law at UNSW and is the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW. Davis was a United Nations expert on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016) and UN expert on Indigenous rights on the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) (2017-2022). She was the first Indigenous woman from Australia to be elected via ECOSOC competitive elections to serve on a United Nations body and also served as Rapporteur and Chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Davis also served as deputy chair and Chair of EMRIP. During her two terms Prof Davis held portfolios including Administration of Justice and Gender and Women and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Leibler
Mark Leibler is an Australian lawyer and political activist. Leibler is the sole senior partner of Arnold Bloch Leibler, an Australian law firm founded by Arnold Bloch in 1953, where he became a partner in 1969. Leibler is a political activist, especially on the issues of indigenous rights and support of Israel. He is a member of Australia's prominent Leibler family, the younger brother of Isi Leibler and son of Abraham Leibler. Early life Mark was born to Abraham Leibler, a Jewish jeweller from Antwerp, and Rachel Leibler. His family became prominent in Australian business circles after his father established a jewellery business in Melbourne that was the first source of his family's wealth. His older brother Isi established what became Australia's largest travel agency in 1963.'Jetset Tours', later sold to Air New Zealand Mark became a name partner at Arnold Bloch Leibler in 1969. Political activism Leibler is politically active and prominent in Australian political c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Anderson (human Rights Advocate)
Patricia Audrey Anderson is an Australian human rights advocate and health administrator. An Alyawarre woman from the Northern Territory, she is well known internationally as a social justice advocate, advocating for improved health, educational, and protection outcomes for Indigenous Australian children. Early years Anderson grew up in the Parap camp in Darwin, Northern Territory, encountering discrimination and racism. Her mother was part of the Stolen Generation. Anderson was one of the first Aboriginal graduates from the University of Western Australia. Career and advocacy "With an extensive career spanning community development, policy formation, and research ethics, Pat has dedicated her life to creating and nurturing understanding and compassion between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians" as stated by her Australian of the Year Awards biography. Anderson worked as a legal secretary for the Woodward Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights. In the early 1990 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Dodson
Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson (born 29 January 1948) is an Australian Indigenous rights activist and former politician. He is often referred to as the "father of reconciliation" owing to his commitment to reconciliation in Australia. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 2016 to 2024, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He is the brother of Mick Dodson. Dodson is a Aboriginal elder from Broome, Western Australia, who in his younger days was for a short while the first Aboriginal Australian Catholic priest. Dodson was chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and a Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. In 2008 he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, and in 2009 the John Curtin Medal. The Parliament of Western Australia appointed Dodson to the Australian Senate on 2 May 2016, following the retirement of Joe Bullock. On 28 November 2023, Dodson announced his retirement from the Senate, which took effect on 26 January 2024, owing to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
