Indigenous Peoples and Constitutional Reform in Australia

Dr. Bede Harris is a Senior Lecturer and the Law Discipline Head at Charles Sturt University's School of Business. He possesses a notable academic trajectory, including a BA(Mod) from Trinity College, University of Dublin, an LLB (cum laude) from Rhodes University in South Africa, and a DPhil from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. His extensive teaching background encompasses institutions such as the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, the University of Waikato, James Cook University, and the University of Canberra. Dr. Harris specializes in Constitutional Law, particularly reform, Indigenous legal matters, Corporations Law, and Consumer Law. Notably, in 2001 Bede was awarded a Fulbright Senior Fellowship and attended the American Studies Institute held at the Meyner Centre for the Study of Government at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

• 1. Terminology, values and identity.- 2. How we got here – the reform debate from 2010-2015.- 3. Sovereignty and the impact of colonisation.- 4. Treaty-making and its limitations.- 5. Self-determination and an Indigenous state.- 6. Legal pluralism.- 7. Rights, race and culture.- 8. The Voice to Parliament.- 9. Indigenous parliamentary representation.- 10.Summary of reforms and the way forward.