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The National Centre for Reconciliation, Truth, and Justice is commemorating today’s anniversary of the Voice to Parliament Referendum by holding a special event tonight at the Melbourne Museum.

The event is the second Annual Reconciliation Lecture, following last year’s inaugural event with Noel Pearson as guest lecturer. The Lecture is designed to increase understandings of reconciliation in the wider community.

The National Centre, established at Federation University in March 2023, is Australia’s leading think-tank on reconciliation and will host a panel that will discuss “One Year on from the Referendum – Where are we with Reconciliation, Voice, Treaty, and Truth?”

The panel, moderated by Professor Andrew Gunstone, the National Centre’s Executive Director and Australia’s foremost academic authority on reconciliation, will consist of three eminent First Nations leaders:

• Dr Jackie Huggins AM, a national reconciliation leader for over four decades
• Commissioner Sue-Anne Hunter, Deputy Chair Yoorrook Justice Commission
• Rueben Berg, Co-Chair First Peoples Assembly of Victoria

The panel will explore several key issues, including where we are as a nation following the Referendum, is Reconciliation dead, and how Australia and Victoria are engaging with Voice, Treaty, and Truth.

Professor Gunstone will host this special event to a sold-out audience, which will also include a speech from Federation University Australia’s Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Duncan Bentley.

The panel and moderator are available for interview by request.