Redfern speech still inspires hope despite decades of ‘policy failures’
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The speech made 20 years ago today by the then Prime Minister Paul Keating in Redfern is now considered one of the most significant speeches in Australian political history. But for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the anniversary of the speech is a bittersweet occasion. The speech inspired much optimism, but some say that the last 20 years of federal politics has seen more policy failures than policy successes in addressing Indigenous disadvantage.
One person who was there in Redfern when the speech was made was Larissa Behrendt. Then a graduate fresh from law school, she’s now Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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