Following the advice of the resident Aunty of Religions for Peace Tasmania Branch, Aunty Kris Schaffer, and the First Nations advisers of Religions for Peace Australia, Senator Patrick Dodson and Prof Anne Pattel-Gray, an announcement of support is given.
Amar Singh says it’s his responsibility as “a human being” to engage multicultural communities with the Yes campaign.
That’s why he’s begun a two-month 25,000 kilometre round-trip journey from Sydney to Darwin.
Mr Singh won the 2023 Australian of the Year Local Hero award for his work with his charity Turbans 4 Australia, a Sikh-led assistance organisation that delivers food and aid to vulnerable people across western Sydney.
In 2020, Religions for Peace Australia amended its Constitution to include support appropriate recognition of the spiritualities of the First Peoples of Australia. In this wise, Religions for Peace Australia wrote to the Prime Minister in August 2020 calling for a Voice to Parliament, a Makarrata Treaty and a Truth Telling Commission. On this page, we provide our reasons for support of the Constitutional Recognition Referendum.
The Edmund Rice Centre today released an informational resource for the wider community to help all Australians understand the importance and the detail of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
