Larissa Behrendt - Finding Justice
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6pm for 6.30pm Tuesday 24th November
Larissa Behrendt in conversation with Simon Marnie
Larissa Behrendt has lived an extraordinary career – as a legal academic, author and filmmaker – that has allowed her to move between courtrooms and Country to explore what real justice means, and what it might yet become.
In this ground-breaking work that is part philosophical meditation and part historical reckoning, Behrendt weaves together personal reflection, Indigenous knowledge and decades of legal experience to illuminate a deeper truth about Australia: that more than one way of understanding law, justice and responsibility has always existed.
With quiet authority, Behrendt considers how First Nations’ Practices of Sovereignty – grounded in self-determination, reciprocity and collective care – have succeeded within communities.
Clear‑eyed, thoughtful and ultimately hopeful, Finding Justice is a profound invitation: to rethink power and policy, expand our understanding of justice and achieve genuine transformation.
Larissa Behrendt is the author of three novels and numerous books on Indigenous legal issues. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. In 2018 she won the Australian Directors’ Guild Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature and in 2020 the AACTA for Best Direction in Nonfiction Television. She is Distinguished Professor at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology Sydney and the host of Speaking Out on ABC radio.
For 25 years Simon Marnie was the voice of ABC Radio Sydney and ABC NSW Weekends. Simon has hosted The Lifestyle Café for The Food Channel, Escape From The City for ABC TV and devised the SBS music program Nomad.
Larissa Behrendt in conversation with Simon Marnie
Larissa Behrendt has lived an extraordinary career – as a legal academic, author and filmmaker – that has allowed her to move between courtrooms and Country to explore what real justice means, and what it might yet become.
In this ground-breaking work that is part philosophical meditation and part historical reckoning, Behrendt weaves together personal reflection, Indigenous knowledge and decades of legal experience to illuminate a deeper truth about Australia: that more than one way of understanding law, justice and responsibility has always existed.
With quiet authority, Behrendt considers how First Nations’ Practices of Sovereignty – grounded in self-determination, reciprocity and collective care – have succeeded within communities.
Clear‑eyed, thoughtful and ultimately hopeful, Finding Justice is a profound invitation: to rethink power and policy, expand our understanding of justice and achieve genuine transformation.
Larissa Behrendt is the author of three novels and numerous books on Indigenous legal issues. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. In 2018 she won the Australian Directors’ Guild Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature and in 2020 the AACTA for Best Direction in Nonfiction Television. She is Distinguished Professor at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology Sydney and the host of Speaking Out on ABC radio.
For 25 years Simon Marnie was the voice of ABC Radio Sydney and ABC NSW Weekends. Simon has hosted The Lifestyle Café for The Food Channel, Escape From The City for ABC TV and devised the SBS music program Nomad.