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Professor Larissa Behrendt is an Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman and a thought leader on indigenous affairs in Australia. Larissa’s Good Thinking lecture will focus on the future of Australia’s relations with First Australians
Brisbane Writers Festival
2016 Highlights
Presented by The University of Queensland
Good Thinking: Larissa Behrendt
The Edge, State Library of Queensland
Stanley Place, Cultural Centre, Southbank, Brisbane QLD 4101, Australia
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Professor Larissa Behrendt
Larissa Behrendt is professor of Indigenous Research and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is a regular columnist for The Guardian and has published numerous textbooks on Indigenous legal issues. She is also the author of two novels:Home, which won the 2002 David Uniapon Award and the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’s Prize for Best First Book (South-East Asia and South Pacific); and Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. She is the Ambassador of the Gawura Aboriginal Campus at St Andrew’s Cathedral School in Sydney and a board member of the Sydney Story Factory, a literacy program in Redfern. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year Award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year.
Professor Paul Memmott
Professor Paul Memmott is an anthropologist and architect and is the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Queensland. His research interests encompass Aboriginal sustainable housing and settlement design, Aboriginal access to institutional architecture, Indigenous constructs of place and cultural heritage, vernacular architecture, social planning in Indigenous communities, cultural change and architectural anthropology. His book Gunyah, Goondie and Wurley: Aboriginal Architecture of Australia received three national book awards in 2008, including the prestigious Stanner Award from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.