The Uluru Statement from the Heart, issued to the Australian people in 2017, will be announced as the winner of the 2021 Sydney Peace Prize this afternoon.Professor Megan Davis – UNSW Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, Professor of Law and Balnaves Chai
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The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, four years after it was delivered to the Australian people.
The landmark statement - an agreement of 250 Indigenous delegates that calls for a constitutionally-enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament - was issued to Australians on 26 May, 2017.
The prize was revealed on Wednesday, with the jury saying the statement brought together Australia s First Nations Peoples around a clear and comprehensive agenda for healing and peace within our nation .
“The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a powerful and historic offering of peace,” Sydney Peace Foundation chair, Archie Law, said in a media release.
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Kyogle Writers Festival ready to launch, with Southern Cross as partner
The township of Kyogle is hosting is own literary event, May 14 to 16 (credit Kyogle Writers Festival).
Surrounded by valleys and mountain ranges and bursting with ideas and creativity, the small Northern Rivers town of Kyogle is set to unveil its own celebration of writing.
Southern Cross University is proud to partner with the organisers of the inaugural Kyogle Writers Festival, May 14 to 16, to showcase more than 40 writers and thinkers in a smorgasbord of author talks and conversations, lively panel discussions and workshops.
The University is also supporting the Festival’s inaugural Brolga Young Peoples Writing Prize for high school students from the Northern Rivers region.
Mykaela Saunders will be appearing at Kyogle Writers Festival. Photo supplied.
The theme for the inaugural festival is ‘Country’. It will take place in the NSW Northern Rivers town of Kyogle, on the traditional lands of the Bundjalung and Gidhabal peoples, between 14 and 16 May.
Over forty writers are participating (including novelists, short-story writers, poets, non-fiction writers, local historians and song writers).
The festival programme includes conversations with authors, panel discussions on topics such as Indigenous writing (anchored by Daniel Browning, host of RN’s
Awaye! Indigenous arts and culture programme), writing in a time of climate change, and poetry readings.