First Posted on August 20, 2013 by alisonball

An Event of Interest at The Melbourne Brain Centre, Kenneth Myer Building.

Thank you for registering for the above Public Forum. As the General Election is now also on September 7, we will start the Public Forum at 10am to give attendees the chance to vote in the morning. Please see below draft agenda for the day.10am Arrival, registration and morning tea
10.30am Welcome and overview of the Kurruna Mwarre Project
(by Robert Springall, Chair CASSE Australia)
11am Professor Ian Anderson will examine the idea of reconciliation from an internal perspective. Contemporary approaches to reconciliation provide a lens through which relations between Indigenous and settler Australians can be re-framed and re-developed. This is a critically important agenda. However, However, from the frontier period until now relationships between Indigenous Australians and others have been intimately entangled giving rise to families for whom reconciliation is not just a political gesture but one which is personal, psychological and familial.
11.30am John, Lord Alderdice will use his experience of addressing violent political conflict in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Latin America, South Asia and elsewhere, and of non-violent communal tensions between settlers and various first nation people, as well as divisions of race, to explore how far many of these challenges are issues of culture and identity more than race and colour. The outcome of this thinking has substantial implications for the Australian Aboriginal dilemma.
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Professor Marcia Langton AM will talk about the history of the idea of ‘reconciliation’ between indigenous and non indigenous Australians, beginning with the first formal recommendation made by the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Some important successes and failures of the ‘Reconciliation movement’ will be addressed, and some thoughts shared about the future of ‘Reconciliation’ in Australia and its relevance to indigenous well-being.
2.30pm Professor Stuart Twemlow will be talking about very specific techniques to create a reconciliation environment based on my work in USA, in a Fire Dept and a Mayor and City Council and in schools here and in Australia and Hungary. He also intends to offer some initial responses to his experience with the unique Australian Aboriginal issue especially in the absence of war or any ethnic strife in Australia that is very usual in such situations.
3.30pm Afternoon Tea
4pm Panel of presenters and discussion

5pm Close