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UOW historian to co-deliver prestigious Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture
6 Aug 2007 | Bernie Goldie
Associate Professor Sue Stanton from the University of Wollongong and the Hon Fred Chaney will present the 8th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture on Saturday 11 August at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory.
Professor Stanton will be following in the footsteps of previous notable speakers – Sir William Deane, Gough Whitlam, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Patrick Dodson, Malcolm Fraser, Brian Manning and Linda Burney. This year organisers of the Memorial Lecture have changed the format from a single speaker to two presenters acknowledging the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture commemorates the Wave Hill Station walk-off led by Vincent Lingiari with his Gurindji people and other groups in August 1966.
It was a significant act by those involved as it was a catalyst for Aboriginal people, not only in the Northern Territory but across Australia, to have their rights to traditional lands recognised and for those lands to be returned.
Professor Stanton is an Indigenous Australian historian from UOWs School of History and Politics and a member of the Kungarakan-Gurindji nations who was born in Larrakia country. Vincent Lingiari was a member of the Gurindji people from the Northern Territory’s Victoria River District. He died in 1988.
Fred Chaney is Director of Reconciliation Australia. He entered the Senate in 1974 until 1990 and was Leader of the Opposition in the Senate from 1983 to 1990. He was a former Aboriginal Affairs Minister. After leaving Parliament he undertook research into Aboriginal Affairs policy and administration as a Research Fellow with the Graduate School of Management at the University of Western Australia from 1993 to April 1995.
As this year marks the 40th anniversary of the 1967 referendum, the theme of the lecture will be: “40 years since the Referendum: Walking into the future and learning from the past”.
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