SPECIAL EVENT
Feared And Revered: Megan Davis In Conversation With Clare Wright
She’s a clarion voice in the national discourse, but how does an NRL-loving, Johnny Farnham fan from regional Queensland become an internationally recognised constitutional lawyer and the first Indigenous Australian to sit on a United Nations body? Who were the women – feared and revered – who inspired Professor Megan Davis’ journey from railway kid to national powerbroker? Join Megan in this intimate and timely conversation with historian,Clare Wright.
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PROFESSOR MEGAN DAVIS is the Pro Vice-Chancellor Society (PVCS) at UNSW Sydney. Professor Davis is also the Balnaves Chair of Constitutional Law, a UNSW Scientia Professor, a Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law Centre UNSW Law. She is a Cobble Cobble woman of the Barunggam Nation and a renowned constitutional lawyer and public law expert, focusing on advocacy for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Her work extends internationally, through roles at the United Nations, focusing on global Indigenous rights. Prof Davis is an Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. She is also a member of the Australian Rugby League Commissioner.
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PROFESSOR CLARE WRIGHT OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator. Clare is currently Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement at La Trobe University. She is the author of four works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom, which comprise the first two instalments of her Democracy Trilogy. Clare hosts the ABC Radio National history series, Shooting the Past, and co-hosts the La Trobe University podcast Archive Fever.