Shireen Morris is the Constitutional Reform Advisor at Noel Pearson’s Cape York Institute.
In the wake of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the Uluru Statement From The Heart, Shireen runs me through the history of constitutional recognition, what it means and how it might work moving forward. We cover symbolism, the political reaction to the Statement, what an Aboriginal Voice might look like, treaty and the tension between Indigenous land rights and environmental considerations.
I learnt a whole lot here because Shireen is fully heaps smart.
Problematic is coming to Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Comedy For Good at Howler on Thursday June 22nd, raising $$ for Refugee Legal
My appearance on Stuart Goldsmith’s podcast The Comedian’s Comedian
Season 2 of First Contact is back up on SBS On Demand
Shireen sparring with Andrew Bolt on the ABC’s Yes or No?
Article: No Australian should feel like a stranger in their own country
Article: A job half done by Noel Pearson
RightWrongs: the ABC’s site on the 1967 Referendum
Uluru proposals deserve better than a knee-jerk reaction by Fred Chaney
Explainer: All the questions you were too afraid to ask about Indigenous constitutional recognition
Article: Why New Zealand’s Maori got a treaty and Australia’s Indigenous peoples didn’t
Cause of the Week: 1 Voice Uluru (1voiceuluru.org)