The book Time to Listen explores Voice to Parliament through the lens of history and law
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In Time to Listen: An Indigenous Voice to Parliament, Melissa Castan and Lynette Russell -two esteemed Professors at Monash University - explore how the need for a Voice has its roots in what anthropologist WEH Stanner in the late 1960s called the ‘Great Australian Silence’, whereby the history and culture of Indigenous Australians have been largely ignored by the wider society. This ‘forgetting’ has not been incidental but rather an intentional, initially colonial policy of erasement.