Mick Dodson

Main Committee Room, Parliament House
Friday 5 August 2011 12.15pm - 1.15pm

In December 2010 the Gillard Government established a panel of experts to consult with the Australian community about amending the Constitution to recognise indigenous Australians. The panel is currently touring the country to provide people with an opportunity to express their views. It aims to report to the Government by December 2011 on possible options for constitutional change.

In this lecture Mick Dodson will examine what might be a recipe for a successful referendum and how the ingredients of that recipe might bring both the symbolic recognition sought and the substantive changes to the Constitution to reset the relationship positively between the First Australians and the rest of the country.

Professor Mick Dodson AM is Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University and Professor of Law at the ANU College of Law. He is also a Director of Dodson, Bauman and Associates-Legal and Anthropological Consultants, and was formerly Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of New South Wales. Professor Dodson was Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Social Justice Commissioner. In 2009 he was named Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day Council.

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