New Way Aboriginal Summit: Why must we have a new way and what is it?

Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 18:12 to Sunday, July 4, 2010 - 18:12

Brings together collective minds in academia, professions & communities to find solutions.

Speakers:
Mark Rose (Deakin University)
Richard Broome (Lecturer in History, La Trobe University),
Alan Brown (chairman Victorian Aboriginal Health Service),
Geoff Clarke (ex-chairman ATSIC), and others.

Topics covered include:
teaching of sovereignty and Aboriginal law;
discussions on sovereignty, genocide, and treaty;
Australia's black history;
the historical civil rights movement and its application today;
the Aboriginal movement today;
the Northern Territory intervention;
the Aboriginal movement and the left;
children taken away; deaths in custody;
Aboriginal community-based and controlled organisations;
the Victorian Genocide Centre;
the trade union movement and defending Aboriginal rights;
what happened to ATSIC; what about native title?