ACHRE President Lynda Blanchard commented:
“As Australia’s only International Peace Prize, this award involves an annual public lecture to promote human rights education”.
2021-2022 Sydney Peace Prize Award Ceremony and Lecture
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Hear the voices, be part of the truth telling and witness the awarding of the Sydney Peace Prize 2021, honouring Uluru Statement from the Heart. Join us to hear Professor Megan Davis deliver the 2022 keynote address, along with leading journalist in conversation with drivers of the Statement – Professor Davis, Pat Anderson AO and Noel Pearson.
Every year, the Sydney Peace Prize brings the community together to talk about peace, justice, and non-violence, and to honour one of the world’s most inspiring peacemakers. In 2021, the prize was awarded to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for the ‘establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution’. Receiving the Prize on behalf of the Statement will be Alyawarre woman Pat Anderson AO, Cobble Cobble woman Professor Megan Davis, and Guugu Yimidhirr man Noel Pearson, who worked tirelessly with the community to deliver the Statement in May 2017.
Uluru Statement from the Heart will receive the 2021 Sydney Peace Prize “For bringing together Australia’s First Nations peoples around a clear and comprehensive agenda for healing and peace within our Nation and delivering self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, that enables Australia to move into the future united and confident.”