Current multiparty support has created a historic opportunity to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first peoples of Australia, to affirm their full and equal citizenship, and to remove the last vestiges of racial discrimination from the Constitution. The Expert Panel was tasked to report to the Government on possible options for...

The full text of PATRICK DODSON's speech to the National Press Club.

In his Reconciliation Week lecture at Parliament House on 25 May 2004 Patrick Dodson discussed future priorities, including the need for a new representative body to replace ATSIC.

This Royal Commission was established in October 1987 in response to a growing public concern that deaths in custody of Aboriginal people were too common and public explanations were too evasive to discount the possibility that foul play was a factor in many of them.