Specialist in Aboriginal Affairs, Dr Ros Kidd will deliver UniSA’s Inaugural Reconciliation Lecture, presented by Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research.

Dr Kidd is well known for spending more than a decade campaigning for the return of wages owed to Indigenous workers in Queensland. She was also instrumental in the establishment of the Senate Inquiry into Stolen Wages Nationally, a forum which allowed affected families to convey their experiences.

Against government threats, Dr Kidd produced evidence to the 1996 Human Rights Commission inquiry into the government’s illegal underpayment of community workers during the 1970s and 1980s. Ultimately compensation of around $40 million was paid, although the files reveal over $180 million had been illegally withheld.

Dr Kidd also submitted reports to the Indigenous Crime Taskforce, the Inquiry into the Abuse of Children in State Institutions in Queensland, the Cape York Justice Study and the Bringing Them Home Oral History Project.

During UniSA’s Inaugural reconciliation lecture Dr Kidd will discuss how she has used her knowledge as ammunition to assist others in their continuing fight for justice.

FREE registration: Inaugural reconciliation lecture
with Dr Ros Kidd, Specialist in Aboriginal Affairs, Queensland

28 May, 6.00 – 7.15pm
Allan Scott Auditorium, University of South Australia