Join Magistrate Rose Falla in a personal and wide-ranging conversation with author and signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Thomas Mayor.
Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man born on Larrakia Country. He is a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the author of four books. Together, Magistrate Rose Falla and Thomas Mayor will discuss his background, his writing and how he came to be involved in the Uluru Statement – what it calls for, the importance of Voice and Treaty and the debate over the sequencing of both.
Thomas will also give his assessment of where we are now – the opportunities presented and the consequences of failure – and how those who are interested can best help.
This is an in-person only event and places are limited. Register now to avoid missing out.
Presenter.
Author, National Indigenous Officer, Maritime Union of Australia and signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Thomas Mayor
Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man born on Larrakia Country in Darwin and is a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He was a wharf labourer for 16 years and is the National Indigenous Officer of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).
Thomas is the author of four books as well as essays and articles published in the Griffith Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian.
Thomas was inspired to write his first book: Finding the Heart of the Nation – the Journey of the Uluru Statement towards Voice, Treaty and Truth, after being entrusted to carry the sacred Uluru Statement from the Heart canvas to Australians from all walks of life, soon after its creation in the heart of the country in 2017.
Thomas travelled throughout the nation for 18 months with the Uluru Statement, taking it to the smallest of communities to the largest of city gatherings, playing a key role in building the peoples' movement for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations' Voice to what it is today.
His present work covers both historical and contemporary First Nations’ struggles, biographical narratives, fatherhood, masculinity, love and race.
Author, National Indigenous Officer, Maritime Union of Australia and signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart
Thomas Mayor
Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man born on Larrakia Country in Darwin and is a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He was a wharf labourer for 16 years and is the National Indigenous Officer of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA).
Thomas is the author of four books as well as essays and articles published in the Griffith Review, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian.
Thomas was inspired to write his first book: Finding the Heart of the Nation – the Journey of the Uluru Statement towards Voice, Treaty and Truth, after being entrusted to carry the sacred Uluru Statement from the Heart canvas to Australians from all walks of life, soon after its creation in the heart of the country in 2017.
Thomas travelled throughout the nation for 18 months with the Uluru Statement, taking it to the smallest of communities to the largest of city gatherings, playing a key role in building the peoples' movement for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations' Voice to what it is today.
His present work covers both historical and contemporary First Nations’ struggles, biographical narratives, fatherhood, masculinity, love and race.