Students create YES! referendum display
Up Club members (Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!) have created a display in the College Library featuring the Uluru Statement from the Heart so all students can get educated about the request from Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to be included in the constitution. All students are welcome to join the Up Club to learn more and to spread the word to vote Yes in the upcoming referendum.
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference endorsed the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2021 and, in a May 2023 statement, said the Constitution’s lack of reference to Indigenous people having custodianship of the land was “an omission which needs to be rectified”.
The Library offers many works by Indigenous authors and all students are encouraged to read about the cultures, histories and experiences of our First Nations Australians so they can be advocates for reconciliation in our land.
