Speech |Faith Bandler – ‘Faith, Hope and Reconciliation’ | |
|Context |‘Talkin’ It Up’ Reconciliation Conference, Wollongong, 1999 |
| |Co-founded the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship |
| |Civil Rights Activist who campaigns against social and political inequality and Indigenous injustice and disadvantage. |
| |Founding member of Women’s Electoral Lobby |
| |Bandler 79 years old – 50 years of political activism |
| |Amidst crisis of stolen generation |
|Purpose |To maintain activism for the long term to seek true reconciliation as she believed the reconciliation movement had slowed down since 1967. |
|Audience |Audience at the 1999 conference in Wollongong |
| |Those interested in indigenous issues, issues of social justice, peace and equality in later years as the speech endures past its original context....