The 2007 Wednesday Lectures
Whatever Happened to Reconciliation?
Peter Sutton (University of Adelaide)
Professor Peter Sutton is an anthropologist and linguist and is currently an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum. He has published extensively in the fields of Aboriginal land tenure, languages, art, and indigenous policy. He assisted with over fifty indigenous land claim cases in many different parts of Australia between 1979 and 2005.
Mick Dodson (Reconciliation Australia/ANU)
Professor Mick Dodson is a member of the Yawuru peoples and is currently Director of the ANU's National Centre for Indigenous Studies. He was Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. He is also the current Chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Chairman of the UN Advisory Group for the Voluntary Fund for the Decade of Indigenous Peoples, and is a director of Reconciliation Australia.
Raimond Gaita (ACU National)
Raimond Gaita is Professor of Moral Philosophy, Kings College, University of London and Professor of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. His books include Romulus, My Father, A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice and Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics.
Paul Patton (UNSW)
Paul Patton is Professor of Philosophy in the School of History and Philosophy at The University of New South Wales. His current research is in social and political philosophy, including colonialism and the rights of indigenous peoples. He has translated work by Deleuze, Baudrillard, Nancy and Foucault and written widely on poststructuralist and postmodernist thought.
Frank Brennan (ACU National)
Father Frank Brennan, AO, SJ, is Professor of Law in the Institute of Legal Studies at the Australian Catholic University and Professor of Human Rights and Social Justice at the University of Notre Dame. He is an Officer of the order of Australia for services to Aboriginal Australians and shared, with Pat Dodson, the inaugural ACFOA Human Rights Award. In 1998, he was appointed an Ambassador for Reconciliation by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Robert Manne (La Trobe University)
Robert Manne is Professor of Politics at La Trobe University and is one of Australia’s best known public intellectuals. His publications include The Petrov Affair, The Shadow of 1917, The Culture of Forgetting, In Denial, and The Howard Years. He also edited Whitewash: On the Fabrication of Aboriginal History.
