2024 Frank Archibald Memorial Lecture presented by Dr Stan Grant (full event)

Yindyamarra: to live with dignity in a world of catastrophe.
Take a snapshot of our world: forever wars, deep wealth inequality, environmental crisis, loss of trust, widening social and political division, failing democracy and rising authoritarianism. The most vulnerable people pay the price for the crimes of the elite and so-called leaders have no moral core. From where comes hope? In this lecture Wiradjuri man Stan Grant draws on his forty years as one of Australia’s most acclaimed and awarded journalists to speak back to our age. Deeply formed by his culture and his faith, Stan says we must resist the worst of modernity. For centuries humans have sought to make themselves gods and we have reached a point where humans themselves may be redundant. Now, Stan says we must ask what it is to live with dignity and how to recapture a sense of what is sacred.
Stan GrantStan Grant is a renowned journalist, author, moral philosopher, thinker, film maker and communicator. He has had a ground breaking four decade career as one of Australia’s most awarded journalists.
A Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharrawal man, Stan has blazed a trail for First Nations journalists. In a career of firsts he was the first Indigenous Political Correspondent, the first Indigenous Foreign Correspondent, he was the first Indigenous person to present a prime time commercial television news and current affairs program.
The Frank Archibald Memorial Lecture held at the University of New England has been held as part of university’s calendar since 1986 and is dedicated to Frank Archibald, his family and Aboriginal people of the New England region. The Lecture is presented by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander speakers who are leading professionals in fields such as education, law, social justice, government and the arts.