Presentations
Where available, speeches, presentations and audio recordings from the symposium will be published here.
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| Opening address Charles Darwin University Vice Chancellor, Professor Helen Garnett |
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| Introduction: What is a Bill of Rights? What is a constitution? Ken Parish (Charles Darwin University) |
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| The pro-Bill of Rights position Professor George Williams (The University of New South Wales) |
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| The anti-Bill of Rights position Professor James Allan (University of Queensland) |
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| What rights? Whose rights? Associate Professor Simon Evans (The University of Melbourne) |
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| Overview of history of statehood for Northern Territory Ms Sue Bradley (Convenor, NT Statehood Steering Committee) |
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| The politics of Northern Territory Statehood, 2003-2007 Professor David Carment (Charles Darwin University) |
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| Indigenous views on Bill of Rights Commissioner Tom Calma (Federal Human Rights Commissioner) |
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| Indigenous aspects of Bill of Rights/human rights Professor Ravi De Costa (Trent University, Canada) |
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| Bills of Rights - Some international considerations Dr Annemarie Devereux (Australian Catholic University) |
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| Panel discussion and audience participation with panel members: David Ross, Professor Allan Patience, Michael Tatham, Barbara McCarthy and Terry Mills | |
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| Summation Professor Allan Patience (Charles Darwin University) |
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