Republic to settle “other outstanding matters”

Professor Larissa Behrendt of University of Technology Sydney says in an opinon piece in the National Indigenous Times that the unfinished business of the Australian Republic is the perfect opportunity to settle “other outstanding matters”. She writes that Australia “will not mature into a ‘just society’ until the nation-building processes have included Aboriginal people. Evolving into a republic is a moment that offers this opportunity. And it will also be the moment many other sectors of the community excluded from the original nation-building exercise can also place their stamp on the country.” Larissa was the ARM’s 2005 National Republican Lecturer. Read her article in full at www.nit.com.au (search the archive on Larissa Behrendt 6 March 2008)