Indigenous Muslim Solidarity Conference Melbourne

ASWAD and the Indigenous Muslims of Australia Network present

INDIGENOUS MUSLIM SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE

This is a special one-day conference for Muslims to be introduced to issues of social justice affecting the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Australia, including Land Rights and the Northern Territory Intervention.

Featured Speakers:

For the last 40 years, Gary Foley has been at the centre of major political activities including the 1971 Springbok tour demonstrations, the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra in 1972, the Commonwealth Games protest in 1982, and more recently, the protests during the 1988 Bicentennial celebrations.  Late in life Foley became a student at the University of Melbourne where he studied history, cultural studies and computer science.  Between 2005 and 2008 he was a lecturer / tutor in the Education Faculty of University of Melbourne, and is about to complete a PhD in History at the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne.

Chris Graham is the former editor and founder of the National Indigenous Times newspaper, where he won a Walkley Award and a Walkley High Commendation for his reporting on Indigenous affairs.

In addition to discussing the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee on Palm Island, Chris will also be making a special presentation on Racism and the Media. A key part of this presentation is an expose about a fraudulent ABC Lateline program which aired in the lead-up to the Northern Territory Intervention.

"Lateline's reporting led directly to the greatest human rights abuse against Aboriginal people certainly of my time, and probably in the last half century.  The Northern Territory intervention has harmed Aboriginal people; it's caused starvation; it's seen a dramatic rise in reports of self-harm incidents; it's driven children away from school; it's wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. In short, it's been a disaster for the nation's most disadvantaged citizens, the people who could least afford it."

PROUDLY SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN ISLAMIC STUDIES AND THE ISLAMIC COUNCIL OF VICTORIA

Date: Saturday, 27th November

Venue: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne University, Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Level 1

Time: 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM 

Registration for this event is crucial, please email: aamer.rahman@gmail.com by the 20th of November.