First Nations Governance Forum: Gareth Evans' opening address
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 02/07/2018

The First Nations Governance Forum will examine a range of
issues, but will focus on a pivotal question: ‘What is the right
place for Australia’s first people in the governance and legal
framework of this country?’, therefore making the old House
of Representatives Chamber a significant venue. It is here that
many major decisions were made that continue to affect the lives
of Australians, including First Australians. Sitting in this room,
and indeed the very seats, where generations of MPs shaped
Australia will allow our delegates to reflect on some of these past
decisions directly affecting Indigenous peoples in Australia. It
will allow us to examine these issues in the light of international
experience of indigenous peoples from a similar colonial
experience, context and law, and help forge a path forward.