A Constitution for all Australians - where to next for Indigenous recognition?

Radio National Big Ideas, Monday 9 July, 2012
Where to now for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians? 

Early this year an expert panel reported on how Indigenous Australians should be recognised in the nation’s constitution. It was hoped a referendum would be put to the Australian people at, or by, the next federal election. That now seems unlikely. So, where to now for Indigenous recognition? A special Constitution Day panel discussion.

Alison Page
Executive Officer with the Saltwater Freshwater Arts Alliance, an award winning designer and cultural planner, member of the “Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Father Frank Brennan
Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University, Adjunct Professor at the ANU College of Law and National Centre for Indigenous Studies,

Megan Davis
Professor of Law, and Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the UNSW; expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; member of the “Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. 

Mick Dodson
Professor of Law and Director of the ANU's National Centre for Indigenous Studies.   

James Spigelman
Chairman, ABC Board; former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW.