Book "Walk With Us"
Walk With Us
Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice
A sequel to the highly regarded "This Is What We Said" (February 2010)
Beautifully illustrated, this hard-covered book provides a very important update of the current thinking about the Intervention. The book articulates the views of Aboriginal Elders who gathered in Melbourne in February 2011 as well as those of other leading Australians. Following her visit to meet with Aboriginal elders in Darwin, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed her own concerns.
1 Sept 2011
Invitation
to the launch of the book
Walk With Us
Aboriginal Elders Call Out to Australian People to Walk with them in their Quest for Justice
A sequel to the highly regarded "This Is What We Said" (February 2010)
Beautifully illustrated, this hard-covered book provides a very important update of the current thinking about the Intervention. The book articulates the views of Aboriginal Elders who gathered in Melbourne in February 2011 as well as those of other leading Australians. Following her visit to meet with Aboriginal elders in Darwin, Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights expressed her own concerns.
Elders are calling on the ‘People of Australia' to walk with them as they seek the return of their basic human rights in their quest for justice.
"Walk With Us"
was launched by
Nicole Watson, Research Fellow, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning
Jeff McMullen, CEO (Honorary) of Ian Thorpe's Fountain for Youth
For the flyer to print and distribute: please click here or here
Date: Thursday, 1 September 2011
Time: 6.00 for 6.30pm
Venue: gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe
Cost: Free
RSVP: gleebooks - 9660 2333 or
http://www.gleebooks.com.au/default.asp?p=events/launches4_htm
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This will be a non-alcohol launch brought to you by 'concerned Australians'
For a compilation video clip of the Sydney launch: please click here
For a photo slide show of the Sydney launch: please click here
For the book order form: please click here
For further info about the book: please click here
For the book review: please click here
For an article about the Sydney launch: please click here
Launches in other cities:
The Executive Lounge, First Floor, Alan Gilbert Building
Corner of Grattan and Berkerley Streets, Carlton
Speakers:
The Hon Sally Brown AM, Ret Justice of the Family Court, Former Chief Magistrate of Victoria.
Melissa Brickell, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (NATSIEC) Commissioner for Victoria
The Friends Meeting House, Corner Bent and Condamine Streets, Turner
Speakers:
Jilpia Nappaljari Jones
Digby Habel
Perth - 14 September 2011 at 4pm for 4.30pm
Co-Op Bookshop, The Guild Village, Hackett Drive (Hackett Entry 2), Crawley
Speaker: Violet Bacon
For the Invitation to the book launch in Perth: please click here
Organized by the Darwin Aboriginal Rights Coalition
www.concernedaustralians.com.au