Mick Dodson Professions : Academic Born : April 10, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Mick Dodson Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination. Mick Dodson education morning children For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect a people to be able to enjoy their culture without their cultural heritage and their sacred belongings is equivalent to amputating their legs and digging up the ground and asking them to run a marathon. Mick Dodson leadership heart running In this role my wish is to build our understanding of what it means to protect the rights and human dignity of all Australians. Upholding human rights is about looking out for each other, taking the idea of fairness seriously. And it goes to the heart of who we are as a nation. Mick Dodson rights heart mean It's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for. Mick Dodson landscape grateful identity Today the thing I find myself thinking about the most is our landscape...I think it's something a lot of us take for granted; for many of us Australia is just there but how many of us have really seen it, have seen Kakadu or Kings Canyon? I know I hope to at some stage, to see Uluru at sunset and the ancient art in the Abrakurrie caves. I think it's our landscape which defines our identity and it's what I'm most grateful for. Mick Dodson grateful kings art Similar Authors Brian Fitzgerald academic Anthony Aveni academic Amitai Etzioni academic Ali Mazrui academic Dennis Altman academic Denis Donoghue academic All Authors
