July 9, 2024 1:00pm - July 9, 2024 2:00pm
St James Centre, Level 18, 111 Elizabeth St Sydney 2000
Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers invites you to our Tuesday Lunchtime Speaker Event with Professor Emerita Heather Goodall AM, FASSA, FRSN, Australian Academic at UTS and historian, at 1:00 pm on Tuesday, 9 July 2024.
Please join us at Level 18, 111 Elizabeth Street, Sydney or by video if you can’t make it in person.
Topic:
Histories of First Nations people’s legal activism, in particular the Western Aboriginal Legal Service and its antecedents in rural areas from the 1970s.
About the speaker:
Professor Emerita Heather Goodall AM, FASSA, FRSN is a Sydney historian, whose early research with Indigenous people was on the centrality of land issues in Aboriginal politics, published as From Invasion to Embassy (1996).
While living in Central Australia, in 1984, she worked for the Pitjantjatjara Council to research their case to the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Testing and has given evidence in a number of legal cases on historical matters relating to First Nations people.
Heather has published on cultural and environmental relationships in rural and urban areas, including, in south-western Sydney, with Indigenous Australians, Arabic-speakers, Vietnamese Australian and Anglo-Irish residents along the Georges River. She continues to work with First Nations people on life histories and on histories of land rights, community politics and activism.
Heather was recognised for her significant service to tertiary education, social science, and to the Indigenous Community in the 2024 King’s Birthday Honours list.
WHEN Tuesday 9 July 2024 1 pm until 2 pm
(light lunch and refreshments will be available for in person guests from 12:40pm)
WHERE This is a hybrid event.
In person at Level 18, 111 Elizabeth St, Sydney Office OR via Teams.
REGISTER Any questions please email the Marketing team on marketinggroup@codea.com.au
RSVP Friday 5 July 2024
Register via the link here.
