Quarterly Essay 90: Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal
Author(s): Megan Davis
Why a First Nations Voice to Parliament is a 'constitutional moment' that offers a new vision of Australia.
This essential Quarterly Essay seeks to do two things: to make the strongest, clearest possible case for the Voice to Parliament and to draw out the significance and the promise of this reform - what it could mean for recognition and justice.
Megan Davis presents the Voice as an Australian solution to an Australian problem. For the First Nations, it is a practical response to "the torment of our powerlessness." Davis argues that it will increase accountability across a range of areas, from Juukan Gorge to youth detention to child protection. She shows that we have arrived at a "constitutional moment" that brings with it a new vision of Country and community.
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Megan Davis is Professor of Constitutional Law at UNSW, a global Indigenous rights expert on the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and a former chair of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She was the first person to read out the Uluru Statement from the Heart, at Uluru in May 2017.
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- : Black Inc.
- : Black Inc.
- : 166.0
- : 30 April 2023
- : 233mm x 168mm x 233mm
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- : JFSL9
- : 167
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- : Paperback
- : Megan Davis