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Inaugural University of South Australia Reconciliation Lecture
'Understanding and Resolution'
With Dr Ros Kidd, Specialist in Aboriginal Affairs, Queensland
Professor Marcia Langton authorised Dr Ros Kidd's extraordinary access in 1989 to previously restricted files of Queensland's Aboriginal Affairs Department. Dr Kidd's subsequent PhD thesis exposed over 100 years of government controls over Aboriginal lives, work and finances.
Knowledge like this raised the question: do you complete your task and walk away, or do you use your knowledge as ammunition to assist others in their continuing fight for justice. Dr Kidd chose the latter path, as this public lecture will reveal.
In 2006, Dr Kidd was instrumental in the establishment of the Senate Inquiry into Stolen Wages Nationally, a forum which allowed affected families to convey their experiences. All state governments were exhorted to reveal their files on this matter and make due reparations. But governments maintain their secrets and their profits... and so the fight continues.
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Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research
Visit the Hawke Centre website for information on future events.
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