Event Description
Understanding The Voice. How it can benefit everyone – Thursday 20 July 2023
Date: Thursday 20 July 2023
Time: 7:30 pm to 8:00 pm AEST (after the Editors Victoria Annual Branch Meeting)
LOCAL START TIMES
NZ: 9:30 pm NZST
NORFOLK ISLAND: 8:30 pm NFT
TAS/ACT/VIC/NSW/QLD: 7:30 pm AEST
SA/NT: 7:00 pm ACST
WA: 5:30 pm AWST
Venue: Online via Zoom meetings; all registrants will receive the Zoom meeting link in the confirmation email - please check your junk/spam folder if not received immediately upon booking and save this email to reference later!
Cost: IPEd members & reciprocal organisations AUD15 (approx. NZD14.77), non-members AUD20 (approx. NZD19.69). Exchange rates as of 26 June 2023.
PLEASE NOTE: Australian residents are charged GST (included in the AUD price above); non-Australian residents are exempt from Australian GST (NZD price does not include the GST). All invoices quote AUD prices and payments are to be made in AUD.
Bookings close: 5pm AEDT, Wednesday 19 July 2023
Join us after the Editors Victoria Annual Branch Meeting (ABM) to hear Rev. Glenn Loughrey speak about ‘Understanding the Uluru Statement from the Heart (The Voice)’. Glenn is a Wiradjuri man, and is an artist, author and Vicar of St Oswald’s Church and has a special interest in indigenous issues. In 2021 he became the first Indigenous canon of St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne. He is also their artist-in-residence, designing a series of glass panels depicting the traditional lands on which the cathedral sits.
Later this year Australians will be called upon to vote for recognition of First Nations people in the constitution and for the same peoples to have a direct voice to the federal parliament. It is vital that we listen and appreciate the different perspectives of First Nations people, and understand the question confronting us as Australians.
Rev. Loughrey will explain what The Voice to Parliament means and talk about how editors can learn more about Indigenous Australian heritage to inform and improve their work, along with the positive impact The Voice could have in encouraging and supporting present and future Indigenous Australian editors and writers. Hear his unique viewpoint of the issues informing The Voice debate. There will be a question-and-answer session at the conclusion of the presentation.
The event (Part 2) will follow the Editors Victoria Branch ABM (Part 1) and is free to those who register and attend the ABM. However, we would also like to welcome all IPEd members from around Australia and New Zealand to attend the presentation (Part 2).
Please note: the event will be recorded and made available to registered attendees, then offered for sale to those members who did not register to attend.
Notes:
1.If you have registered for the Editors Victoria Annual Branch Meeting, you do not need to register and for this event. It will immediately follow the ABM.
IPEd acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all First Nations peoples today.
