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Truth-telling and generosity: our progress so far and the road ahead

The Australian National University

Event details

Lecture

Date & time

Wednesday 17 May 2017
6.00pm–7.00pm

Venue

Finkel Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Building 131, Garran Road, ANU

Speaker

Hon Linda Burney MP, Member for Barton.

Contacts

ANU Events
02 6125 4144

The Hon Linda Burney MP will deliver a public address on Truth-telling and generosity: our progress so far and the road ahead. This address is part of recognising the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the University’s celebrations for this year’s Reconciliation Week.

The Hon Linda Burney MP was elected federal member for Barton in 2016, following a 14 year career in the NSW Parliament as Member for Canterbury. During her state political career she served as minister in a number of senior portfolios including as minister for Community Services and later as Deputy Leader of the Opposition.

Following her election to the Federal House of Representatives she was immediately appointed as Shadow Minister for Human Services.

As a proud member of the Wiradjuri nation, Linda was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to the NSW Parliament and the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the Australian House of Representatives. Linda’s commitment to Indigenous issues spans more than 30 years.

She began her career as a teacher in western Sydney and then as an education bureaucrat before being appointed Director General of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in 2000. Charles Sturt University awarded her, its first Aboriginal graduate, an Honorary Doctorate in Education in 2002.

Linda has a long held commitment the prevention of domestic violence and family violence and has detailed publically her personal experience with it. She has held senior positions in the non-government sector serving on a number of Boards including the SBS, the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, and the NSW Board of Studies.

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