#Performances
#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Our online events can be watched through your BWF ticketing account, and will be available for viewing from 5pm, Friday May 7 to 5pm, Friday June 4.
Professor Megan Davis has been the leading constitutional lawyer working on Indigenous constitutional reform since 2011. She led the Referendum Council’s work designing the deliberative constitutional dialogue process which led to her, along with other First Nations leaders, delivering the Uluru Statement of the Heart to the Australian people on 26 May 2017. Torres Strait Islander writer Thomas Mayor travelled the nation for a year to garner support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Mayor and Professor Davis are in conversation, discussing black activism, dissent, and mobilising community.
#Artists
Megan Davis
Megan Davis is a Cobble Cobble Aboriginal woman from QLD and a Professor of Law, an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court, and the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. Professor Davis is an expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, being the first Australian Indigenous person to be elected to a United Nations body. Professor Davis was a member of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.
Thomas Mayor
Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man born on Larrakia country in Darwin. Following the Uluru Convention, Thomas was entrusted to carry the sacred canvas of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He then embarked on an eighteen-month journey around the country to garner support for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice, and a Makarrata Commission for truth-telling and agreement-making or treaties. His first book in 2019 was "Finding The Heart of The Nation". Thomas’s journey continues, both in person and through the pages of this book and his second book for young Australians - "Finding Our Heart". He has two books that will be released in August 2021. A childrens book about the Gurindji Wave Hill Walk Off. And a book about fatherhood from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander’s perspective.
