Mabo Oration 2007

Please note your diaries for Friday 15 June 2007, the date of the next Mabo Oration.

This year's Mabo Oration will be delivered by wellknown Aboriginal leader, Professor Larissa Behrendt. Prof Behrendt is Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is also a Judicial Member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Equal Opportunity Division and the alternate Chair of the Serious Offenders review Board. She has published on property law, Indigenous rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women's issues.

Larissa is also an author, a Board Member of the Museum of Contemporary Art, a Director of the Sydney Writer's Festival and the Bangarra Dance Theatre.

This year's Mabo Oration will be held at the Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane, on Friday 15 June, between 5.30 and 7.30 pm.

The event will include entertainment by well-known Aboriginal singer Kev Carmody, and drum and didgeridoo players.

Tickets are $15.00 (plus $1.50 booking fee), and are available from QTIX on 13 62 46. Light refreshments will be available before the Oration.

The event will be signed by Auslan interpreters.

Photo of Eddie Mabo reproduced with permission from The Age Photo Sales. Photographer : Jim McEwan.

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