Rudd govt announces list of minds for 2020 summit
Thursday, 20 March 2008
NATIONAL, March 28, 2008: Patrick Dodson, Noel Pearson, Megan Davis, Marcia Ella Duncan and the lone Tasmanian – Rodney Dillon – are just some of the prominent Indigenous leaders expected to join the Rudd government’s 2020 summit in April after the full list was announced earlier today.
The talk-fest’s Options for the future of Indigenous Australia will be chaired by former Reconciliation Australia chair Jackie Huggins and will examine subjects like economic development in remote Australia and programs such as the Northern Territory intervention and the Cape York reform trials.
Other high profile figures in Indigenous affairs to be invited to the summit include Aboriginal lawyer Terri Janke, former Australian of the Year Fiona Stanley, and long time Torres Shire mayor Pedro Stephens.
Former National Indigenous Council member Tammy Williams, ANTaR National Director Gary Highland, Central Land Council director David Ross and West Australian of the Year Mark Bin Bakar are also on the list.
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