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2012

• 7th National Indigenous Legal Conference
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, University of Western Australia, Perth, 6 October 2012
• 2012 Southgate Oration
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Flinders University, Adelaide, 27 September 2012
• AAG Elder Abuse and Neglect Conference
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Alice Springs, 5 September 2012
• Mental illness and cognitive disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners – a human rights approach
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Cairns Convention Centre, 22nd Annual THeMHS Conference, 23 August 2012
• Justice reinvestment
  and its importance to Aboriginal communities
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Convention Centre, Aboriginal Legal Service Annual Conference, Wollongong, 1 August 2012
• NSW Teachers Federation Annual Conference
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Convention Centre, Darling Harbour, 1 July 2012
• The necessity of justice reinvestment
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Koori Prison Transition Forum, Rydges Bell City Conference Centre, Preston, 29 June 2012
• Campaign for Justice Reinvestment for Aboriginal Young People
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, NSW Government House, Sydney, 2 May 2012
• Historical Justice and Memory Conference 2012
  Speech
  by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Swinburne University -
  Hawthorn Campus
  , Sydney, 15 February 2012

2011

• Launch of the 2011 Social Justice and Native Title
  Reports
  Speech by
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, University of Sydney, 25 November 2011
• Constitutional reform: moving towards reconciliation
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, North Sydney, 22 November 2011
• The Power of Identity: Naming Oneself, Reclaiming
  Community
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  James Martineau Memorial Lecture, Hobart, 2 November 2011
• Strengthening
  our relationships over lands, territories and resources: the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Eddie
  Koiki Mabo Lecture, James Cook
  University, Carins, 24 October 2011
• Symposium on
  Indigenous Sentencing, Punishment and Healing
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Rydges Esplanade Hotel, Cairns, 5 July 2011
• Working towards Social Justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  Speech by
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Notre Dame University, Fremantle, 4 July 2011
• Our relationships in native title: starting the
  conversation
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  AIATSIS Native Title Conference, Brisbane, 2 June 2011
• Effective engagement: The tonic for a reconciled nation
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Reconciliation Week Public Lecture, University of Sydney, 30 May 2011
• Recognising opportunities for all of us: a
  rights approach
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Bringing it together conference, Gold Coast, 26 May 2011
• Presentation to FaHCSIA (NSW/ACT) staff
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Eora Meeting Room, FaHCSIA, Sydney, 11 April 2011
• People power is a force in this country: Celebrating the 5^th anniversary of the Close the Gap
  Campaign for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Equality
  Speech by Co-chairs of the Close the Gap Campaign for Indigenous Health
  Equality - Dr Tom Calma, National Coordinator Tacking Indigenous Smoking, and Mr
  Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner, National Press Club, Canberra, 10 March 2011
  
• Constitutional Reform: Creating a Nation for all of
  us
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Eidos Institute Event at the State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, 23 February 2011
• Launch of the 2010 Social Justice and Native Title Reports
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda,
  Turner Hall, Sydney, 11 February 2011
• Combating Racism in Sport panel discussion
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Geneva, 26 January 2011

2010

• NSW Teachers Federation Council Meeting
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Surry Hills, 20 November 2010
• Care vs Justice panel discussion
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Conference, University of New South Wales, 18 November 2010
• Indigenous Policy and Dialogue Conference - New
  Relationships, New Possibilities
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, University of New South Wales, 18 November 2010
• Towards a reconciled Australia
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, National Press Club, Canberra, 3 November 2010
• Interdisciplinary Workshop: Archives and Indigenous Human Rights
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Rydges Hotel, Melbourne, 12 October 2010
• Creating Futures 2010 Conference
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Creating Futures 2010 Conference, Cairns, 20 September 2010
• Indigenous Forum, National Mental Health Services
  Conference
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, National Mental Health Services
  Conference, Sydney, 14 September 2010
• Closing keynote speech, UN DPI NGO 63^rd World Conference on Global Health
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, UN DPI NGO 63^rd World Conference, Melbourne, 1 September 2010
• Social Justice and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  peoples access to services
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, QCOSS Regional Conference, 12 August 2010
• The right to participate in decision making
  Statement by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Geneva, July 2010
• Social Justice and Wellbeing
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, AIATSIS Seminar, Canberra, 28 June 2010
• Start Stronger, Live Longer, National Aboriginal Health
  Symposium
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, UWA Perth, 8 June 2010
• Reconciliation Week Seminar Series
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Presentation to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, 28 May 2010
• Justice Reinvestment: a new strategy to address family violence
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, National Indigenous Family Violence Prevention Forum, Mackay, 19 May 2010
• The practical power of human rights
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law Public Lecture, Brisbane, 19 May 2010
• 2010 Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (FVPLS)
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, Closing the Gap on Family Violence National Conference, WA, 04 May 2010
• Justice Reinvestment: a new solution to the problem of
  Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda, ANTaR NSW Seminar - Juvenile Justice Strategy: A Better Way, Sydney, 20 March 2010
• Kevin Cook Lecture – Looking Back, Looking
  Forward
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Yabun - Survival Day 2010, Sydney, 26 January 2010
• Launch of Amnesty International - Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Yabun - Survival Day 2010, Sydney, 26 January 2010
• Launch of the Social Justice and Native Title Reports 2009
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Redfern Community Centre, Sydney,
  22 January 2010.

2009

• Enriching tertiary education with Indigenous voices
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, The Don Aitkin Lecture, 11 December
  2009.
• Human Rights: Everyone, Everywhere,
  Everyday
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Living
  Books – Local People, Remarkable Lives, Cairns, 6 December
  2009.
• The Close the Gap Campaign
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, International Conference on Realising the Rights
  to Health and Development for all, Hanoi, Vietnam, 27 October 2009.
• Tobacco Control and Closing the Gap
  Keynote speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Oceania Tobacco Control 09 Conference, Darwin, 7 October 2009.
• Our Right to Protect our Knowledge
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Parliament House, Canberra, 24 September 2009
• Investing in Indigenous youth and communities to prevent
  crime
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Indigenous young people, crime and justice conference, Australian Institute of Criminology, 31 August 2009
• Our future in our hands
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, National Press Club, Canberra, 27 August 2009
• Launch of Fourth Edition of Indigenous Legal
  Issues: Commentary and Materials
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Sydney, 6 August 2009
• NSW Teacher's Federation Conference
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Sydney, 12 July 2009
• NAIDOC Week Oration to Senior NSW Police
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Surry Hills, 8 July 2009
• 'They are our children, this is our community'
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, AIATSIS Research Symposium on Bilingual Education, Caberra, 26 June 2009
• ‘Partnership builds success’ An Indigenous perspective of educational partnerships
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Dare to Lead Conference, Adelaide, 14 June 2009
• From self-respect comes dignity, and from dignity comes hope
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, The Mabo Oration, 5 June 2009
• Who’s driving the agenda?
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Melbourne, 3 June 2009
• Maximising opportunities in a new era of Indigenous affairs
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Sydney, 5 May 2009
• Launch of Social Justice and Native Title Reports 2008
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Ultimo, 4 May 2009
• Native Title Reform - Where should we go from here?
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Glebe, 8 April 2009
• Tom Calma launching ‘Indigenous Legal Relations in Australia’ by Larissa Behrendt, Chris Cunneen and Terri Libesman, Tranby College, Glebe, 27 February 2009
• Indigenous Issues in the Durban
  Review
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Melbourne, 20 February 2009
• The Informa 3^rd Annual Negotiating Native Title
  Forum
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Melbourne, 20 February 2009
• Hearing Each other? The National Apology to the
  Stolen Generations one year on
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Melbourne, 8 February 2009

2008

• World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Rod Laver Arena, 09 December 2008
• A human rights agenda for the Northern Territory
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Northern Territory, 17 November 2008
• Essentials for Social Justice: The Future
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Sydney, 12 November 2008
• 'Still Riding for Freedom' - An Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Human Rights Agenda for the Twenty-First Century
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Sydney, 23 October 2008
• Human Rights and Reconciliation
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Sydney, 25 September 2008
• Indigenous Affairs in Australia
  – post the Apology
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Auckland, 26 August 2008
• ‘Be Inspired’: Indigenous Education Reform
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Melbourne, 18 August 2008
• Garma Festival of Traditional Culture
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma,
  Indigenous Climate Change and Land Use Management Conference, 7 & 8 August 2008
• Building a sustainable National Indigenous Representative Body Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, AIATSIS Seminar Series, 4 August 2008
• Following on from the Apology –
  where to from here from a HREOC perspective Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, NSW Dept of Premier and Cabinet, 10 July 2008
• NAIDOC Week 2008 - Ministerial Event. Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs, 10 July 2008
• Essentials for Social Justice: Land and Culture - Economic Development, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts NAIDOC Week Celebrations, 07 July 2008
• Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Knowledge Conference, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Lazenby’s at the Sandy Bay Campus of the University of Tasmania in Hobart, 03 July 2008
• Essentials of Social Justice: Close the Gap, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Collaborative Indigenous Policy Development
  Conference, 11 June 2008
• Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples, Speech by Warwick Baird, Director of Native Title Unit, HREOC. Native Title Conference 2008, 5 June 2008
• Sustainable options for Australia’s new national
  Indigenous representative body, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Native Title Conference 2008, 4 June 2008
• Launch of Our Children Our Future report, speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Sydney, 28 May 2008
• Australia’s Minerals industry in context – nationally and internationally, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, at the Mineral's Council Conference, Canberra, 27 May 2008.
• Social Justice; HREOC and Indigenous Education, speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, National Education Forum General Meeting, 17 May 2008
• The importance of environmental health in improving the life expectancy of Indigenous peoples, speech delivered by Paul Endres on behalf of Commissioner Tom Calma at the International Federation of Environmental Health World Congress, Brisbane, 13 May 2008
• Agenda 6: Half day discussion on the Pacific, Panel statement by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, United Nations Permanent Forum, New York, 23 April 2008
• Valuing and Protecting Diversity, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Department of Finance and Deregulation, 09 April 2008
• Indigenous Rights and the debate over a Charter of Rights
  in Australia, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Melbourne, 04 April 2008
• Essentials for Social Justice: Protecting Indigenous children, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Sydney, 31 March 2008
• Opening remarks – National Indigenous Health Equality
  Summit, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Canberra, 18 March 2008
• Essentials of Social Justice: Reform, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Brisbane, 20 February 2008
• Response to government to the national apology to the Stolen Generations, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma, Parliament House, Canberra, 13 February 2008
• The role of social workers as human rights workers with Indigenous people and communities, Social Work Orientation Week Seminar Australian Catholic University, 12 February 2008

2007

• Essentials for Social Justice: Sorry - Speech by Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at launch of Us Taken-Away Kids, Sydney, 11 December 2007
• Reflection on the 1967 Referendum and The Commissioner's Multiculturalism Position Paper - Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at the Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria Annual General Meeting, 27 November 2007
• The role of local government in achieving social justice for Aboriginal peoples in the Northern Territory - Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at Darwin, 22 November 2007
• What Does A Human Rights Approach Offer In Improving The Health Of Indigenous Australians? - Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at the Menzies School of Health Research 2007 Oration, 8 November 2007
• Indigenous Home Ownership Panel Discussion - Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at the Which way? Directions in Indigenous Housing Conference, Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Alice Springs, 27 October 2007
• Australian Government Responses to the Bringing Them Home Report - speech delivered by the Commissioner Calma at the Ten Years Later: Bringing them home and the forced removal of children conference which HREOC, the Indigenous Law Centre and the Crime and Justice Research Network at UNSW jointly hosted in Sydney on 28 September 2007.
• The Indigenous health curriculum in Australian medical schools, Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at the University of New South Wales. 23 September 2007
• Indigenous Children Belong on the Asset Side of Australia's Wealth Ledger, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma, at the SNAICC National Conference, hosted by the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), Adelaide, 19 September 2007
• Can the end ever justify the means? Achieving equality for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples & the Northern Territory intervention, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Don Dunstan Annual Oration, hosted by the Done Dunstan Foundation, Adelaide, 18 September 2007
• The campaign for Indigenous health equality within a generation, Speech to the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Adelaide by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma. 18 September 2007
• The evidence base for interventions into Indigenous public health, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Indigenous Health Forum, hosted by the National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, 12 September 2007.
• Indigenous health inequality in Australia - What can medical professionals do to make a difference? How can, and to what degree is it appropriate that, medical professionals act as leaders in the crisis? National Leadership Seminar, hosted by the Australian Medical Students Association, Canberra, 10 September 2007
• 40 years on: what does the ‘Yes’ vote mean for Indigenous Australians?, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Tasmania Annual Social Justice
  Lecture, hosted by Anglicare Tasmania, Hobart, 22 August 2007
• 2007: Delivering on the promise of the 1967 referendum for Indigenous Australians, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Hyllus Maris Memorial Lecture, hosted by La Trobe University, Melbourne, 21 August 2007
• Indigenous health: real solutions for a chronic problem- Indigenous social and emotional health and wellbeing. speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the 9th Annual GARMA Festival of Traditional Culture, hosted by Yolngu clans at Gulkula, Northern Territory, 6 August 2007
• Proactive engagement with the Native Title system, speech delivered by Commissioner Tom Calma at the NTRB CEO and Senior Management dinner function hosted by the Aurora Project, Ingleside, Sydney, 1 August 2007
• The role and function of the Human rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and the Commissioners, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma to Aboriginal field staff at the Aboriginal Legal Service Annual Conference hosted by the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) Limited, Sydney, 1 August.
• The '67 Referendum: 40 years on and Federal Government's Northern Territory Plan - Where to Now?, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at The '67 Referendum - Forty Years On Conference, hosted by the Indigenous Law Centre, Sydney, 20 July 2007
• The Right to Health of Indigenous Australians', speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Inaugural course on Health, Development and Human Rights, hosted by the University of New South Wales, Sydney, 16 July 2007
• National Press Club Address,
  speech by Commissioner Calma at the National Press Club, Canberra, 4 July 2007
• Continuity and change through the new arrangements – Lessons for addressing the crisis of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory, speech by Commissioner Calma at the launch of the Social Justice and Native Title Reports, hosted by HREOC, Sydney, 3 July 2007
• Advance Indigenous Business,
  speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the official launch of Advance Indigenous Business, Cairns, 7 June 2007
• Maximising economic and community development opportunities through native title and other forms of agreement-making, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the, Cairns Convention Centre, 6-8 June 2007
• Reflections on the 1967 referendum: The challenges that remain, speech delivered by Nicole Watson of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning on behalf of Commissioner Calma at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney, 28 May 2007
• 6th Indigenous Environment Health Workers Conference, speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at Cairns. 23 May 2007
• Stolen generations track home, speaking notes of Commissioner Calma's speech at the National Sorry Day Committee event, Parliament House, 21 May 2007
• Speaking notes of of Helen Moran and Tiffany McComsey, Co-Chairs of the National Sorry Day Committee
• Securing the rights of Indigenous Territorians, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the 2007 Northern Territory Symposium - Securing Rights for Territorians? hosted by Charles Darwin University, Darwin, 10 May 2007
• A human rights perspective on strategies to address family violence in Indigenous communities, speech delivered by Ms Jackie Huggins AM on behalf of Commissioner Calma at the 4th Annual Indigenous Family Violence Prevention Forum, hosted by the Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, Mackay, 2 May 2007.
• Is economic development possible on Indigenous land? speech delivered by Ms Fabienne Balsamo on behalf of Commissioner Calma at the IQPC 6th Annual Conference - Indigenous Policy Development, Brisbane, 2 May 2007
• What makes good Indigenous Policy - Good, Better, Best - Policy Making for Indigenous Australians, speech by Commissioner Calma at the IQPC 6th annual conference - Indigenous Policy Development, Brisbane, 1 May 2007
• Indigenous environmental health and health equality, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the 6th National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Health Conference, Cairns, May 2007
• Social determinants and the health of Indigenous peoples in Australia - a human rights based approach, workshop paper presented by Mr Darren Dick on behalf of Commissioner Calma, Brisbane, 30 April 2007
• Statement for General Meeting of the Tangentyere Council,
  statement read on behalf of Commissioner Calma at General Meeting of the Tangentyere Council. The statement outlines the human rights that Alice Spring's town camp residents have in the current negotiations with the Australian Government about leasing arrangements on their communal lands, Darwin, 18 April 2007
• Addressing Indigenous health inequality within a generation - a call to action, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Close the Gap - Indigenous Health Campaign media launch, hosted by HREOC in collaboration with Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR), Telstra Stadium, 4 April 2007
• Customary law in sentencing and changes to tenure arrangements on communally owned land, speech by Commissioner Calma at the Indigenous Legal Issue Forum as part of the 35th Australian Legal Convention hosted by the Law Council of Australia, Sydney, 24 March 2007
• Harnessing the Mainstream: how much load can it bear?,
  speech delivered by Mr Glenn Pearson on behalf of Commissioner Calma at the Job Futures National Conference, Fremantle, 6 March 2007
• Lessons learned from the scrutiny of Indigenous Affairs,
  speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Forum of Commonwealth Agencies in NSW Conference hosted by the Australian Public Service Commission, Sydney, 23 February 2007
• Investing in Indigenous research and researchers to address Indigenous disadvantage, speech delivered by Commissioner Calma at the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council (IHEAR) Conference, Melbourne, 21 February 2007

2006

• Addressing family violence and child sexual assault in Indigenous communities – A human rights perspective
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Forum, NSW Parliament House, Tuesday 5 December 2006
• Human Rights and Indigenous Education
  ‘Success, celebration and the way forward’
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Tom Calma at Making the Difference Conference, Adelaide,16 November 2006
• Diabetes in Indigenous Communities
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, A symptom of society International Diabetes Forum, VIC, 13 November 2006
• The Integration of Customary Law into the Australian legal system
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Globalisation, law and justice seminar UWA, 27 October 2006
• Launch of the Western Australian Law Reform Commission Report into Aboriginal Customary Laws
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, WA, 27 October 2006
• A Level Mining Field: The Path to Achieving Outcomes for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Stakeholders in Mining
  Opening statement by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Sheraton Perth Hotel, WA, 26 October 2006
• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Parliamentary Briefing
  Opening statement by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Parliament House Canberra , NSW, 12 October 2006
• The Integration of Customary Law into the Australian Legal System
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, National Indigenous Legal Conference, NSW, 23 September 2006
• Launch Of The 2006 Social Justice Sunday Statement, The Heart of Our Country, Dignity and Justice for Indigenous Sisters and Brothers
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,14 September 2006
• Challenges for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law and justice agencies
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, National Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee ( NAJAC) Colloquium, 13 September 2006
• Influencing Social Determinants of Mental Health and Well-Being in Rural, Indigenous and Island Peoples
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 5 September 2006
• Garma festival presentation
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Gulkala in North East Arnhem Land, 5 August 2006
• Breakfast launch of maori language week
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 20 July 2006
• Tradition and Change - An Integrated Approach to Economic and Community Development on Indigenous Land
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 25 May 2006
• Native Title and Service Delivery
  Speech by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma at Darwin, 23 March 2006
• Evaluating the external forces which exert an influence on
  government policy direction
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Collaborative Indigenous Policy Development Conference, Marriott Hotel Brisbane, 28-29 June 2006
• Addressing family violence in Aboriginal and Torres
  Strait Islander Communities – Key issues
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Ending violence in Indigenous communities Forum, Parliament House Canberra, 19 June 2006
• From rhetoric to reconciliation: addressing the challenge of equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in criminal justice processes
  The Elliott Johnston Tribute Lecture by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Flinders University, 23 May 2006
• Speech at the launch of Social Justice Report 2005 and Native Title Report 2005
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Museum of Sydney, 31 March 2006.
• Mr Romlie Mokak's speech at the launch of Social Justice Report, 2005
  Speech by Romlie Mokak, Chief executive Officer, Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, Museum of Sydney, 31 March 2006

• Ms Cathy Duncan's speech at the launch of Social Justice Report 2005
  Speech by Cathy Duncan, Director of Culture and Reputation, Aboriginal Employment Strategy, Museum of Sydney, 31 March 2006
• Achieving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health equality within a generation – A human rights based approach
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, ‘The Right to Health of Indigenous Australians’ seminar, University of Melbourne Law School, 16 March 2006.

2005

• Addressing the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the victims of crime
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 'A Peaceful Coexistence, Victims Rights in a Human Rights Framework' national forum, Rydges Capital Hill, Canberra, 16 November 2005.
• Indigenous mental health
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, HREOC, Indigenous
  mental health, Djirruwang Aboriginal Health
  Program, Charles Sturt University - Student Conference, 29 September
  2005
• Utilising Indigenous socio-economic data in policy development
  Speech by Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, HREOC, Indigenous Socioeconomic Outcomes: Assessing Recent Evidence conference, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research,
  Australian National University, Canberra, Friday 12 August 2005.
• The Human Face of Native Title Challenges and Opportunities In Times Of Change
  Plenary Address by
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
  Tom Calma, NTRB Conference 2005, 2 June 2005.

• Speech at the launch of the
  Social Justice Report 2004 and the Native Title Report 2004
  By Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  Social Justice Commissioner, HREOC, 12 April 2005.
• The
  current challenges facing Indigenous people in Australia and the
  importance of rights
  Redfern Community Centre Friday Night Speakers. Speech
  by Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner, 1 April 2005.
• Opening statement to the Senate Select Committee on the Administration
  of Indigenous Affairs
  By Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  Social Justice Commissioner, at the Public Hearing for their Inquiry
  into the ATSIC Bill and the Administration of Indigenous Programs and
  Services by Mainstream Departments, Wednesday 2 February 2005.

2004

• Implications of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 with reference to state and territory liquor licensing legislation'
  Speech by Tom Calma Acting Race Discrimination Commissioner and Aboriginal and
  Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 34^th Australasian
  Liquor Licensing Authorities Conference, 28 October 2004.
• Indigenous
  peoples and the right to self-determination
  Speech by Mr
  Tom Calma Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
  delivered at International Law Association (Australian Division) and HREOC
  workshop, Indigenous Peoples and Sovereignty - does sovereignty mean secession?,
  Sydney, 10 November 2004
• Indigenous
  Peoples Permanent Sovereignty Over Natural Resources
  Speech by Professor Dr. Erica-Irene A. Daes, at the National
  Title Conference, Adelaide, Thursday, 3 June 2004
• The
  Participation of Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations System's Political
  Institutions
  Lecture : Professor Dr. Erica-Irene A. Daes, at Castan
  Centre for Human Rights, 27 May 2004
• The
  impact of globalization on Indigenous Intellectual Property and Cultures
  Speech by Professor Dr. Erica-Irene A. Daes, Museum of
  Sydney, 25 May 2004
• An
  agenda for change
  Speech delivered by Darren Dick on behalf of Dr William
  Jonas AM. Tandanya, Adelaide, 25 March 2004

2003

• Sustainable
  development and Indigenous Rights
  Speech by Dr
  William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
  at the International Sustainability Conference - Academic Forum of Regional
  Government for Sustainable Development, 17-19 September 2003.
• Beyond
  Apologies: What Now for the Stolen Generations?
  Presentation to the
  Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care seminar: Our
  Future Generations: National Indigenous Child Welfare and Development
  Seminar by Dr William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  Social Justice Commissioner
• Social
  Justice Then Native Title
  Delivered on behalf of Dr Bill Jonas
  by Professor Larissa
  Behrendt at the 2003 Native Title Representative Bodies Conference on
  5 June 2003 in Alice Springs.
• Launch
  of Social Justice and Native Title Reports 2003
  Press statement
  by Dr William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner - Social Justice Report 2002 and Native Title Report
  2002,
  20 March 2003, HREOC Offices, Sydney.
• Launch
  of Ros Kidd's 'Black lives, government lies' (2nd edition)
  Speech by Dr
  William Jonas AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner, 12 February 2003

2002

• Restoring
  Identity - achieving justice for the stolen generations
  Remarks by Dr Bill Jonas at the launch of Restoring identity,
  a report on consultation and research for a reparations tribunal for the
  stolen generations. Launched in Sydney on Friday 27 September.
• The
  Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Ten Years On: The Ongoing
  Role of Government
  Presentation to the Victorian Aboriginal Justice Forum,
  Mr Darren Dick, Director- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
  Justice Unit, Victoria, 20 September 2002.
• Native
  Title and the Treaty Dialogue
  Speech delivered
  by Dr William Jonas, AM,
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, at a seminar hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
  Justice Commissioner and the International Law Association, 10 September
  2002.
• A
  Treaty between the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia and the Government
  of Australia from an International Law Perspective
  Speech deliverd
  by Ivan Shearer, Challis Professor of International Law, The University
  of Sydney at a seminar hosted by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  Social Justice Commissioner and the International Law Association, 10
  September 2002.
• Statement
  at the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee Reconciliation
  Inquiry Media Conference
  by Dr
  William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner, 28th August 2002.
• Statement
  at the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee Reconciliation
  Inquiry Media Conference
  by Senator
  Aden Ridgeway, 28th August 2002
• Recognising
  Aboriginal sovereignty - implications for the treaty process
  Speech
  by Dr William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
  Justice Commissioner at the ATSIC National Treaty Conference, Tuesday
  27 August 2002.
• Launch
  of the Social Justice Report 2001 and the Native Title Report 2001
  Speech by Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue, Adelaide, 19
  July 2002.
• Launch
  of the Social Justice Report 2001 and the Native Title Report 2001
  Speech by Norman Fry, Darwin, 7 August 2002.
• Launch
  of the Social Justice Report 2001 and the Native Title Report 2001
  Speech by David Ross, Alice Springs, 9 August 2002.
• Launch
  of the Social Justice Report 2001 and the Native Title Report 2001
  Speech by Alison Anderson, Alice Springs, 9 August 2002.
• Launch
  of the Native Title and Social Justice Reports
  Speech by Mr Brian Butler, ATSIC Commissioner.
• Family
  violence in Indigenous communities: Breaking the silence?
  
  Opening
  remarks at the launch of UNSW Law Journal Forum delivered by Dr William
  Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Sydney,
  25 July 2002.
• Sydney
  Launch of Social Justice Report 2001
  
  Speech delivered by Senator Aden Ridgway, 17 July 2002.
• Reconciliation
  - Where to Now?
  Speech
  delivered by Dr William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  Social Justice Commissioner at the Sydney Launch of the Social Justice
  Report 2001 and the Native Title Report 2001, 17 July 2002.
• Launch
  of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner's:
  Social Justice and Native Title reports for 2001
  Speech delivered by Mr Patrick Dodson, Lingiari
  Foundation.
• Reconciliation
  - Where to Now?: Perth and Broome Launches of the Social Justice Report
  2001 and Native Title Report 2001
  Speech delivered by Dr W Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres
  Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 1 July 2002 (Perth) and 4
  of July 2002 (Broome).
• Reflections
  on the history of Indigenous people's struggle for human rights in Australia
  - What role could a treaty play?
  Speech delivered by Dr W Jonas, AM, Aboriginal
  and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 27 June 2002.
• Reconcilation
  - Where to Now?: Melbourne Launch
  Speech delivered by Dr W Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and
  Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, 24 June 2002.
• Whatever
  happened to reconciliation?
  Speech by Dr William Jonas,
  AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
  at the media conference to launch the Social Justice Report
  2001 and the Native Title Report 2001, 15 May 2002.
• Community
  justice, law and governance - A rights perspective
  Speech to the Indigenous Governance Conference, by Dr
  William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner, 3-5 April 2002.

2001

• Evolving
  law and order policy — A rights perspective
  Speech to the ATSIC Forum: The Royal Commission
  into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody — Unfinished Business, by Dr
  William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner, 2 November 2001.
• A
  Human Rights Approach to Native Title Agreements
  Presentation given
  by Dr
  William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner,
  to the Representative Bodies Conference at Townsville from 28 August to
  30 August 2001.
• Moving
  forward - from 'practical reconciliation' to social justice
  Opening address by Dr William Jonas AM, Aboriginal and
  Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, at the Moving Forward:
  Achieving reparations for the stolen generations, University of New South
  Wales, Sydney 15-16 August 2001.
• 'Setting
  the scene'
  Opening address by Dr William Jonas, AM , Aboriginal and Torres Strait
  Islander Social Justice Commissioner ,to the 'Indigenous peoples and racism'
  Conference: A Regional Meeting for the United Nations World Conference
  Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,
  20 February 2001.

2000

• "Citizens
  Inside"
  Keynote presentation by Dr William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal
  and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, at the "Prisoners
  as Citizens" Workshop, Sydney, 27 November 2000.
• "Reconciliation:
  whose rights, whose responsibilities?"
  The Sir Wallace Kyle Oration, University of Western Australia
  delivered by Dr William
  Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
  25 October 2000.
• Senate
  Legal and Constitutional References Committee - Inquiry into the stolen
  generation: Public hearing
  Opening comments by Dr William Jonas, AM,
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
  Social Justice Commissioner, 12 July 2000.
• Searching
  for justice, the challenges ahead
  Paper delivered
  by Dr William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
  Justice Commissioner, at
  Searching for justice: A conference of Community Legal Centres in New
  South Wales , 29 June 2000.
• The
  recognition of distinct cultural rights in international law
  Paper presented
  by Dr William Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
  Justice Commissioner at the Ethnic Minorities Workshop on Cultural Rights,
  11 - 17 June 2000, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.
• Statement
  on Mandatory Sentencing
  Dr William
  Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner,
  HREOC Press Conference, 17 February 2000.

1999

• Panel
  discussion: Indigenous community expectations of best practice interventions
  in corrections
  Speech
  by Dr Bill Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
  Commissioner to the Best Practice Interventions in Corrections for Indigenous
  People Conference, Adelaide, 14 October 1999.
• Geography
  at the Millenium
  Speech by Dr Bill Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
  Justice Commissioner to the Institute of Australian Geographers, 28 September
  1999.
• How
  you play the game: The contribution of sport to the protection of human
  rights
  Speech by Dr Bill Jonas, AM, Aboriginal and Torres Strait
  Islander Social Justice Commissioner at the Sport and Human Rights Conference,
  Sydney, 1 September 1999.

1998

• Native
  title rights, good house, good clinic and being able to buy a feed
  
  Speech by Barb Flick, at the Millenium Hotel, Sydney,
  21 August 1998.

1997

• Over-coming
  discrimination against Indigenous people: Australia's experience
  
  Speech by Michael Dodson, Australasian Law Reform Agencies
  Conference, 16 September 1997.
• Aboriginal
  and Torres Strait Islander People and Citizenship
  Speech by Michael Dodson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait
  Islander Social Justice Commissioner, at the Complex Notions of Civic
  Identity Conference, University of New South Wales, 20 August 1993.
• An
  Indigenous home for Indigenous children
  Speech by Michael Dodson, at the SNAICC National Conference,
  Townsville, June 1997.
• National
  Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
  from Their Families Report
  launch
  Speech
  by Michael Dodson, Australian Reconciliation Convention, Melbourne, 26
  May 1997.
• Democracy,
  the media and human rights
  Address by Michael Dodson, to the Public Lecture Session - Diplomacy Training
  Program, Manila, Phillippines, 22 January 1997.

1996

• Assimilation
  versus self-determination: No contest
  Speech by Michael Dodson, at the H.C. (Nugget) Coombs Northern Australia
  Inaugural Lecture, Darwin, 5 September 1996.

1994

• Building
  co-existence
  Guest lecture
  by Michael Dodson, to the Anthropology Department, University of New South
  Wales.
• Cultural
  Rights and Educational Responsibilities
  Speech by Michael Dodson at the Frank Archibald Memorial
  Lecture, 5 September 1994, University of New England.
• The
  End in the Beginning: Re(de)finding Aboriginality
  Speech by Michael Dodson, at the Wentworth Lecture, Australian
  Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994.

1993

• Social
  justice for Indigenous peoples
  Speech
  by Michael Dodson, at the Third David Unaipon Lecture, October 1993.