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Reconciliation Week - Truth-telling

Where
15 Broadway
Ultimo NSW 2007
Australia
UTS Great Hall, Level 5, Building 1 (UTS Tower) or Online via Zoom
When

Thursday 29 May from 10am to 11:30am

Facing Australia’s colonial history on the path to reconciliation 

What stories shape our understanding of ourselves – as individuals, and as a nation? 

Reconciliation Week 2025 invites us to reflect on the past and present and to have courage to face the truths of Australia’s black history, to build bridges and rally for a better future. 

Truth-telling recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have continuously lived and practiced culture on this land for more than 60,000 years prior to colonisation in 1788, and acknowledges the strengths of First Peoples as well as the systematic silencing of injustices and ongoing impacts of colonisation.  

Join us for Reconciliation Week at UTS with Lorena Allam, Kate Grenville, Lindon Coombes and Robynne Quiggin (moderator) as they offer their insights into truth-telling and how it offers a path to better awareness, understanding and connections across communities.

This event will also be live-streamed, so you can attend in-person or tune in online! Online event registrants will receive the livestream link closer to the date. 

Speakers

Lorena Allam is a multiple Walkley award winning journalist descended from the Yuwalaraay and Gamilaraay people of northwest NSW. After a 30-year career as journalist and broadcaster at the ABC, she joined Guardian Australia in 2018 as its first Indigenous Affairs editor and has led news reporting on Indigenous issues including Aboriginal deaths in custody. In forays outside journalism, she worked on the landmark Bringing Them Home inquiry and helmed the Indigenous collection at the National Film and Sound Archive. 

Kate Grenville is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. In her most recent work Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place, she grapples with what it means to be a descendant of colonisation in Australia. Her international bestseller, The Secret River, was awarded local and overseas prizes, has been adapted for the stage and as an acclaimed television miniseries and is now a much-loved classic. In 2017, Grenville was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. 

Professor Lindon Coombes is Industry Professor and Director at Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS. Lindon is a descendant of the Yuallaraay people of northwest NSW and has worked in Aboriginal Affairs in a range of positions, including Director at PwC Indigenous Consulting, CEO of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, and CEO of Tranby Aboriginal College in Glebe.

Professor Robynne Quiggin AO (moderator) is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Leadership and Engagement) at UTS. Robynne is a Wiradyuri lawyer who has worked on legal and policy issues of relevance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, including business, investment, financial services, consumer issues, human rights, governance, rights to culture, heritage and the arts.

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