Yindyamarra Charles Sturt University

This panel discussion co-hosted by Yindyamarra Nguluway at Charles Sturt University and the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, focused on the key issues informing this week’s referendum. What would make cynics say ‘Yes’?  Will the Voice strengthen Australian democracy? What would the implications of a failed referendum be for First Nations peoples, and wider prospects of democratic reform? To help us with these complex questions Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Mark Evans facilitated a long conversation with Michelle Grattan (Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation), Professor Sue Green (Wiradyuri woman and Professoral Fellow at the Yindyamarra Nguluway Initiative), James Blackwell (Research Fellow in Indigenous Diplomacy, at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific and a proud Wiradjuri man), Professor Kim Rubenstein (Australian legal scholar, legal practitioner, and Professor in the Faculty of Business Government and Law at the University of Canberra), and Paul House (senior Ngambri-Ngunnawal custodian of the Canberra region with Wiradjuri, Walgalu and Ngunnawal ancestry and Senior Community Engagement Officer, Office of the Vice-President, First Nations Portfolio, ANU).

Join Jack as he speaks with Michelle Grattan, Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation, Professor Mark Evans, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Charles Sturt, Professor Dominic O’Sullivan, Professor in Political Science at Charles Sturt and James Blackwell, Research Fellow in Indigenous Diplomacy at the ANU and a proud Wiradjuri man to discuss “Where we are at with the campaign for enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament within the Constitution.”

Join Stan and Jack in conversation before a live audience, beneath the night sky and by the fire in Canberra. They launch and discuss Stan’s new book, The Queen is Dead (HarperCollins). 

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Geoff Broughton, Associate Professor in Christian and Practical Theology about lament, the Church, and what a true Australian theology might mean and demand of us.

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Teela Reid, Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer, essayist, and leading advocate for a First Nations Voice. They discuss how racism towards First Nations people is increasing, Teela’s recent experience being on country at the Warangesda Mission, the tension between reckoning and reform, and what it would take for a Voice – and the wider vision of the Uluru Statement – to mark a nation-building moment for Australia.

Join Stan and Jack as they speak with Dr Simon Longstaff AO, Executive Director of The Ethics Centre. They discuss Simon’s unique experience entering into and becoming part of an Aboriginal family, the relationship between the Dreaming and the Enlightenment, and the role of the public intellectual in the Voice debate.