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Talks and Presentations

2015

‘Understanding and resolution’. (Video)(Podcast) Inaugural Reconciliation Lecture. Adelaide. (May).

2013

Speaking Out. Reconciliation for Western Sydney. (Aug)
Acceptance Speech. Peacewomen Award. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. (Apr)

2010

The History of Racial Discrimination in Queensland. Free Minds Forum. (Aug)
One of the Great Scandals of Australia’s History. Alex MacDonald Memorial Lecture. Queensland Council of Unions. (May)
Unpacking Opium. Black Opium Symposium. State Library of Queensland. (Feb)

2009

Asking questions, demanding answers. David Hume memorial lecture (Canberra). (Nov)
Working for the man. Indigenous Participation in Australian Economies Conference. (Nov)
Talk to students of Brigidine College. (Apr)

2008

2006

Accounting for history… Royal Historical Society of Queensland. (Nov)
The fight for the ‘stolen wages’ For my grandchildren. (Oct)
In the name of ‘protection’. Legal Seminar. Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH) Victoria. (Oct)
Launch of ‘Trustees on Trial’. Gilbert + Tobin, Sydney. (Oct)
Taken on Trust… Queensland Public Interest Law Clearing House (QPILCH) Legal Seminar. (Oct)
Stolen Wages – US and Queensland. Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) Dinner. (Sept)
Launch of ‘Trustees on Trial’. Brisbane Writers Festival. (Sept)
Held to account: governments and Indigenous interests. Queensland University of Technology. (Aug)
The requirement for accountability. Queensland University of Technology. (June)
The fight for justice. Queensland University of Technology. (April)

2005

2004

Processes of Discovery. Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge Colloquium. State Library NSW. (Dec)
A Culture of Forgetting – or how to make sure nobody remembers what you’re determined to deny Brisbane Writers Festival. (Oct)
ACTU Indigenous Conference Teachers Federation House, Sydney. September 2004
State Controls of Aboriginal Families and Finances Brisbane School of Distance Education. August 2004
Stolen Wages – A National Issue Garma Festival. Gulkula, Arnhem Land. (Aug)
An honest day’s pay for an honest day’s work: Fighting for Stolen Wages National Stolen Generations Conference. Sydney. (Feb)

2003

Much more than money: the fight to recover the Stolen Wages International Human Rights’ Day Symposium.
Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University. (Dec)
The fight for justice Oodgeroo Seminar, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove. (Oct)
The biggest broker of them all: the State of Queensland and Aboriginal Labour (Brief) National Labour Conference. Brisbane. (Sep)
The biggest broker of them all: the State of Queensland and Aboriginal Labour (Extended).
National Labour History Conference. Brisbane. (Sep)
Reclaiming the land of the ‘fair go’ Northside Reconciliation Group. (Sep)
Bearing Witness: personal, historical and legal implications of revealing the records of Aboriginal administrations
National Records Forum. Brisbane. (June)
Social Engineering: A disastrous experiment Department of families. Brisbane. (June)
Work and Wages – National Perspectives Bob Hawke Centre, University of Adelaide. (April)
Aborigines and Citizenship: The myth of 1967. Griffith University Conference. (Feb)
Black Lives, Government Lies Book launch. (Feb)

2002

2001

The Accountability Interface. Re-Thinking Indigenous Self-Determination Conference. University of Queensland. (Sep)
Breach of Trust Legal Forum, University of Queensland. (June)
No White Dreamtime Story. Redcliffe Library. (Apr)
The Struggle for Justice. Forum on Stolen Wages and Financial Discrimination against Indigenous Australians. University of Queensland. (Mar)

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