Patrick Dodson - Recognition and Inclusiveness of all our Diversity
Australia claims to be a modern society, imbued with the values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and with a sense of reflective wisdom about the appalling immorality and consequences of global colonisation, racism and genocide. The current relationship that exists between Australia’s First Peoples and the nation state is incompatible with the status that Australia claims in the global community.
This paper was delivered as the keynote address to the Criminal Lawyers Northern Territory Annual Conference, Bali, on June 29.
Patrick Dodson is the Chairperson of the Kimberley Institute.
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