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Thomas Mayo (author)
Thomas Mayo (né Mayor, born ) is an Australian human rights advocate, a trade union official and an award-winning author. As an Australian of Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal and Erubamle Torres Strait Islander ancestry, Mayo is a signatory of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. In 2017, he became a prominent advocate for a Voice to Parliament for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Early life Thomas Mayo was born in 1977 on the land of the Larrakia people in Darwin, Northern Territory. His father, Celestino Mayor, is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man who also has Filipino and Dayak ancestry. His mother, Liz Mayor, was of Polish and English ancestry. His maternal grandfather was a Jewish refugee from Poland. As an Islander growing up in mainland Australia, Mayo learnt to hunt traditional foods with his father and traditional island dance from the Darwin community of Torres Strait Islanders. Thomas Mayo completed Year 12 at school. Career Mayo started ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin ( Larrakia: ') is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. The city has nearly 53% of the Northern Territory's population, with 139,902 at the 2021 census. It is the smallest, wettest, and most northerly of the Australian capital cities and serves as the Top End's regional centre. Darwin's proximity to Southeast Asia makes it a key link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and Timor-Leste. The Stuart Highway begins in Darwin and extends southerly across central Australia through Tennant Creek and Alice Springs, concluding in Port Augusta, South Australia. The city is built upon a low bluff overlooking Darwin Harbour. Darwin's suburbs extend to Lee Point in the north and to Berrimah in the east. The Stuart Highway extends to Darwin's eastern satellite city of Palmerston and its suburbs. The Darwin region, like much of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and dry season. A period known locally as "the build up" leading up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diversity Council Australia
Diversity Council Australia (DCA), formerly the Council for Equal Employment Opportunity, is an independent not-for-profit peak body for the promotion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, funded mainly by membership fees, sponsorships and services to business/employers. It undertakes research, holds events, and shares its knowledge and resources. In 2023 DCA, along with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, Community Business (Asia), and Diversity Works New Zealand, launched the Global Inclusion & Diversity Alliance (GIDA). , Catherine Hunter is CEO, while Sunita Gloster chairs the board of the organisation. History In July 1984 the Commonwealth Government ran a one-year pilot program looking affirmative action, with 28 companies and three tertiary institutions participating. It was administered by the Office of the Status of Women, under Senator Susan Ryan, and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) was also involved. Upon completion of the pilot, BCA, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renate Kamener Oration
Ormond College is the largest of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne located in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is home to around 350 undergraduates, 90 graduates and 35 professorial and academic residents. History Beginnings (1853) The University of Melbourne was established by an act of the Parliament of Victoria in 1853. were set aside for residential colleges, of which each were allotted to the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic denominations. The Presbyterian allotment became Ormond College. At the end of August 1877, Alexander Morrison, headmaster of Scotch College and convener of the Presbyterian Church assembly's committee to "watch over the land", received a letter from the director of the Victorian Education Department, proposing that if the church did not mean to take the land for a college, that it be sold and the proceeds divided, half to the church and half to the state for university purposes. This spurred M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
