Human Rights 2019 - Human Rights by Public Opinion - Campaigning for Change via national votes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2019
- The 2017 marriage equality vote was a draining, but ultimately uplifting, end to a long campaign for equal rights for LGBTQI people in Australia. As the Indigenous community
prepares for a potential referendum on recognising Australia's First Nations People in the Constitution, this panel will consider national votes and their relationship to minority rights, democracy and social change. This panel will include the following experts: Sarah Maddison, Lee Carnie and Shannan Dodson.
Speakers:
Sarah Maddison: Sarah Maddison is a non-Indigenous woman, and Professor of Politics at the University of Melbourne where she is also co-founder and co-director of the Indigenous Settler Relations Collaboration. She has held various community roles including as former chair of the boards of GetUp and The Australia Institute. The Colonial Fantasy is her ninth book. She is also author of Beyond White Guilt and Black Politics.
Lee Carnie: Lee is the Director of Legal Advocacy at Equality Australia, and a senior lawyer at the Human Rights Law Centre. She has worked of cases instrumental to the pursuit of equality law reforms in Australia, including the High Court challenge to the marriage equality postal plebiscite, and cases involving federal anti-discrimination protection, adoption equality, apologies an expungement of historical gay sex convictions, birth certificate reforms, medical treatment, and access to hormone treatment for transgender youth.
Shannan Dodson: Shannan Dodson is a Yawuru woman. She has worked in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs for over 13 years and is a Communications and Digital specialist. She is the Communications Manager for the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement) Office at the University of Technology Sydney. Before this she was the Social Media Manager for the successful YES Marriage Equality Campaign and Digital Director for the Recognise campaign; which brought conversations about constitutional reform and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples into the mainstream.
