Monday, 10 December 2012, The Wire -- The speech made 20 years ago today by the then Prime Minister, Paul Keating, in Redfern is now considered one of the most significant speeches in Australian political history.
But for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the anniversary of the speech is a bittersweet occasion.
The speech inspired much optimism, but some say that the last 20 years of federal politics has seen more policy failures than policy successes in addressing Indigenous disadvantage.
One person who was there in Redfern when the speech was made was Larissa Behrendt.
Then a graduate fresh from law school, she’s now Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney.
She talks to Tim Roxburgh of The Wire, a current affairs service offered weekdays to nearly 300 Indigenous and community radios. http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9952
Also on The Wire today at http://www.thewire.org.au/storyDetail.aspx?ID=9953 :
As National Indigenous Television (NITV) prepares to air nationally on Wednesday (12th Dec) through SBS, media expert, Professor Michael Meadows, says that should have happened long ago and is happening in a policy vacuum.