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Nelson Mandela lecture feat. Thomas Mayo
Event details
Thursday 14 May 2026 6pm - 7pm
Online & Allan Scott Auditorium, Hawke Building
Adelaide University - City Campus West
55 North Terrace Adelaide
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This is event is fully booked. To join the waitlist, please email [email protected]
Alternatively, you can register for the livestream.
Sign the Open Letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
Right now, there are more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prison than ever before.
From coast to coast across our lands, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are being criminalised and imprisoned at alarming rates.
This is happening because state and territory governments are more concerned with political point-scoring than evidence-based reforms.
That is why more than 200 organisations and leaders have come together to urge the Prime Minister to show national leadership.
We are calling for a national emergency summit on youth justice, so that key decision makers in government can listen to the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal experts and leaders in a setting where community-controlled organisations lead the discussion.
Will you sign the open letter to add your voice?
To Prime Minister Anthony Albanese,
Right now, there are more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in prison than ever before.
From coast to coast across our lands, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are being criminalised and imprisoned at alarming rates because of political point-scoring rather than evidence-based reforms.
This is an emergency.
And Prime Minister, this has happened under your watch.
As the Uluru Statement from the Heart says: Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not innately criminal people. Our children are alienated from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our children languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
This is happening because governments from every state and territory across Australia are actively pursuing policies that are driving the mass incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and in particular, our children.
That is why we are urging you, Prime Minister, to show leadership. We are urging you to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to thrive, rather than be subject to harmful policies and practices at the hands of state and territory governments who are more concerned with political gains than the care and safety of our people.
We, the undersigned, are urging you to call an emergency summit on youth justice, so that key decision makers in government can listen to the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander legal experts and leaders in a setting where community-controlled organisations lead the discussion.
We are the experts on what our children need; we know what will stop them from entering into a cycle of crime, caused by generational trauma that violent colonial systems have imposed on our people for centuries.
You have promised to be a government that supports reconciliation with, and a more just society for, First Nations people.
But when 36 per cent of the prison population is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and with the continuing and shameful lack of progress on justice outcomes under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, it is not possible for you to achieve this vision without urgent and meaningful action to change the justice system.
It’s time for you to take urgent and meaningful action to protect our children and our communities.
The time is now, our children deserve better futures.
TO ADD YOUR NAME
please click here to sign the petition and scroll down:
https://www.natsils.org.au/open-letter-pm/
Myanmar update: sham elections under military rule
Myanmar’s military junta is going ahead with staged elections designed to entrench its grip on power, not restore democracy.
The so-called election is being rolled out in 3 phases: The first on 28 December, followed by 11 January and 25 January. The initial round saw a low turnout reflecting widespread fear and rejection among the Myanmar people.
No democratic guarantees
These polls are fundamentally illegitimate. As U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated, "I don't think anybody believes that those elections will be free and fair."
Under the current conditions, genuine democratic participation is impossible:
- The National League for Democracy (NLD), the party of the democratically elected government, has been dissolved
- Dozens of pro-democracy parties have been bannedor forced to withdraw.
- Criticising the elections is illegal.
- Voting will not be nationwide; it will take place in only 265 of Myanmar’s 330 townships.
Despite these realities, junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun has claimed the polls will improve Myanmar’s international relations.
Australia must act
The Australian Government has expressed their concerns about the election, but we need stronger measures. Now is the time to escalate targeted sanctions against the military junta and its business interests, and to stand clearly with Myanmar’s democracy movement, trade unions and civil society.
We need your support. Add your name to the petition calling on Australia to escalate sanctions on Myanmar’s junta:
Together with Australian trade unions, civil society organisations, faith groups, international development organisations, and the Myanmar diaspora, we sent an open letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong.
Read the open letter to Foreign Minister Penny Wong urging stronger action.
International action is key to delegitimising the junta. Please sign, share, and help keep the pressure on.
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