UN World Interfaith Harmony Week Lecture 2021

Senator Patrick DodsonOn 10 May 2021, the Parliamentary Friends of Multiculturalism in partnership with Religions for Peace Australia and the Canberra Interfaith Forum hosted the annual UN World Interfaith Harmony Week Lecture at the Theo Notaras Centre. The lecture was given by the indigenous Senator, Sen. Patrick Dodson. The topic addressed by Senator Dodson was Reconciliation and Multifaith: Aboriginal Worldviews and the Christian Heritage.


Senator Patrick Dodson is a Yawuru man from Broome in Western Australia. He has dedicated his life work to being an advocate for constructive relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples based on mutual respect, understanding and dialogue. He is a recipient of the Sydney International Peace prize.

Patrick has extensive experience in Aboriginal Affairs, previously as Director of the Central and Kimberley Land Councils and as a Commissioner in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He also served as inaugural Chair of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and as Co-Chair of the Expert Panel for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.

Prior to his endorsement by the Australian Labor Party as a Western Australian Senator in March 2016, Patrick was a member of the Australian National University Council, Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame (Broome) and Co-Chair of the National Referendum Council.

 


 

Lecture Hosts:
CO-CONVENORS OF PARLIAMENTARY FRIENDS OF MULTICULTURALISM
Russell Broadbent MP
Federal Member for McMillan
Maria Vamvakinou MP
Federal Member for Calwell

 

World Interfaith Harmony Week Canberra 2021