Whose Lucky Country?

Added on 26th May 2014

In Donald Hornes' The Lucky Country, the prognosis for Aboriginal people was that they would be assimilated as citizens, absorbed and disappear.

Yet today the Indigenous population continues to grow and new progressive laws have seen significant land restitutions mostly in remote Australia.

Prof. Jon Altman

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Past Conferences

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2020 — 10 speeches

Connection, Creativity, Community: Finding Hope in a Climate of Crisis

2019 — 9 speeches

Get Angry. Then Get Organised.

2018 — 11 speeches

Activating community leadership to combat equality

2017 — 11 speeches

What makes healthy communities?

2016 — 9 speeches

It's the Community, Stupid: Putting people and the planet back in the picture

2015 — 12 speeches

Think Differently: ideas that change communities

2014 — 11 speeches

The Lucky Country Conference

2013 — 9 speeches

I'm Alright Jack: Reclaiming community in a selfish world

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