Join us for the 2025 David Hunter Memorial Lecture: Time for Truth-telling. Explore the transformative practice of truth-listening, which is an essential part of truth-telling, reconciliation, and justice in Australia.
Register now: https://bit.ly/4naj7po (required for either in person or online attendance).
Guest speakers
Keynote speaker: Blake Cansdale, ANTAR’s National Director (Our People — ANTAR)
Blake is a proud Anaiwan man and the National Director of ANTAR. Dedicated to empowering First Nations Communities, Blake has a background in legal practice with experience in public policy, lecturing, Aboriginal affairs, business management, Aboriginal land planning and development, land acquisition and land management.
With: Prof Chris Cunneen and Dr James Beaufils from the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney.
The ACT Government released the Jumbunna Institute report into the Review into the Over-representation of First Nations People in the Criminal Justice System on 31 July 2025.
As noted by Janet Hunt in her blog Exposing flaws in the ACT’s progressive image, this report is a piece of truth-telling about the neglect and poor accountability of the ACT Government in relation to so many of the drivers of the high rates of First Nations incarceration, and their failure to provide structural and systemic arrangements to enable First Nations self-determination.
Details
Date: Thursday 23 October
In person attendance: 6pm nibbles, 6:30pm start
Location: St Mark’s National Theological College – Durie Room, Charles Sturt University Campus
Address: 15 Blackall Street, Barton, ACT
Online attendance: commences at 6:30pm
Register now: https://bit.ly/4naj7po (required for either in person or online attendance).
Queries: info@antaract.org.au
More information about the David Hunter Memorial Lecture and a list of all past lectures is available at: David Hunter Memorial Lecture – ANTaR ACT.
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