Sarah Maddison’s new book, Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture, builds a picture of the last 25 years of Aboriginal political history. She explores the issue of why Aboriginal communities still struggle so hard to be heard in mainstream politics, based on her interviews with leading Indigenous activists from across the nation.
Author Sarah Maddison and contributor Larissa Behrendt engage in an open discussion about the interviews in Black Politics. Following this, Djon Mundine, Campbelltown Arts Centre’s Aboriginal curator of contemporary art, will lead an audience Q&A session.
SARAH MADDISON (LOCAL) SARAH MADDISON is senior associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of NSW. She is co-editor of Silencing Dissent and co-author of Activist Wisdom. Her latest book, Black Politics: Inside the Complexity of Aboriginal Political Culture, draws on extensive interviews with activists and politicians to explain the dynamics of Aboriginal politics. It reveals the challenges and tensions that have shaped community, regional and national relations over the past 25 years.
LARISSA BEHRENDT (LOCAL) Larissa Behrendt is professor of Law and and director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. Larissa is a judicial member of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, Equal Opportunity Division and the Alternate Chair of the Serious Offenders Review Board. She has published on property law, Indigenous rights, dispute resolution and Aboriginal women's issues. Her book, Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future was published by The Federation Press in 2003. She won the 2002 David Uniapon Award and a 2005 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for her novel Home.
DJON MUNDINE (LOCAL) DJON MUNDINE OAM is a curator and writer, and is a member of the Bundjalung People and is the principal author of the book The Native Born: Objects and Representations from Ramingining, Arnhem Land. He received an Order of Australia Medal for services to the visual arts in 1993 and is the Aboriginal curator - contemporary art at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
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