H.E. Jetsun Kushok Rinpoche
Her Eminence Jetsun Kushok Rinpoche has kindly accepted our invitation. H.E. was born in Tibet in 1938 and is regarded as one of the most realised female teachers in Tibetan Buddhism. She is H.H. Sakya Trizin's older sister.

Considered an emanation of Vajrayogini, the enlightened energy of liberation, her to visit the Byron Shire is most auspicious. H.E. will bestow a combined Green Tara and 21 Taras Empowerment and give a brief commentary on the practice.

Empowerment will commence at 10.00 am and will finish at 4.00 p.m.
Lunch [vegetarian] is included in registration fee.

Please note, late comers may not be admitted.

Location: Byron Bay Beach Resort, Bay Shore Drive
Date: Sat 27 October 2007
Time: Registration from 8.30 am
Cost: $55 concession $75 waged.

To register: please send cheques or money orders to.
Byron Bay Buddhists
Siddhartha's Intent
PO Box 155
Suffolk Park NSW 2481

Please include a note with your name and contact phone number.
Receipts will be issued at the registration desk.

Pre-payment is most helpful to the organisers, so if you can assist us in this it would be gratefully appreciated.

Further information about H.E. Jetsun Kushok Pinpoche can be found at http://www.sakya.org.au/hejkl/bio.html

For those who were unable to attend, or who would like to hear it this lecture again, you can now listen to it by downloading the following 20mb MP3 : Buddhism, Technology and Media lecture (Friday, 15th June 2007 )

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NAIDOC Week (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee)
30 July - 3 August 2007
Week-long event with a range of activities including performances, Kids' Day, film-making workshops, Bush tucker/Bush medicine workshops, Men's /Women's workshops, Elders' Lunch, NAIDOC address, Indigenous scholarship launch, Film night and Fundraiser concert. http://www.naidoc.org.au/

The Wisdom Series
The Centre for Peace and Social Justice (CPSJ) together with the Office of Regional Engagement at Southern Cross University is delighted to launch The Wisdom Series, a series of talks, seminars, workshops and presentations bringing together leaders of various spiritual traditions in aid of University and Community engagement. The Wisdom Series was inaugurated by Geshe Ngawang Gedun, Spiritual Director of The Australian Tibetan Buddhist Centre (ATBC), with a two-part delivery of ‘The Four Noble Truths’ on Saturday, 24th March 2007 and Saturday, 31st March 2007.

An Australian Ministry of Peace: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
The Hon. Dr. Arthur Chesterfield-Evans
December 5th, Harvard Room, Tweed Heads Campus, Southern Cross University
December 6th, Caddies Café, 24 Carrington Street, Lismore.
In Australia, one of the advocates of the establishment of an Australian Ministry of Peace has been the Hon. Arthur Chesterfield-Evans MLC, leader of the Australian Democrats in NSW. Dr Chesterfield-Evans has long held an interest in peace and justice issues, and earlier this year was Australian representative at the World Peace Forum in Canada, where he spoke on the topic of the establishment of a ministry of peace.

Book Launch of Activating Human Rights
edited by Elisabeth Porter and Baden Offord
launched by Justice Michael Kirby, Patron, Centre for Peace and Social Justice
Friday 3 November 2006
This book is based on papers originally presented at the international conference 'Activating Human Rights and Diversity' held in Australia in 2003.

Testing Citizenship a public Point of View seminar and discussion
Wednesday 18th October
The Federal Government recently released its discussion paper Australian Citizenship: Much more than a ceremony. “Testing Citizenship” is a public seminar, to discuss some of the issues the Australian Government raises in this discussion paper, especially the question ‘Should Australia introduce a formal citizenship test?’
The Government’s discussion paper may be downloaded from: http://www.citizenship.gov.au/news/discussion_paper.htm
See the response by the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (download PDF document).

SCU Whiteness Workshops
This series of three workshops provides a space for extended discussions about "colour", "race" and citizenship in Australia, 2006, by using "whiteness" as a frame for engagement and enquiry. Check out the "Interrogating Whiteness" project archive and add your own contribution at the next art gallery.
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Cultural Diversity: A Conversational Corroboree (2006)
Lecture by Lillian Holt, August 10th 2006
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The Annual Cultural Diversity Lecture, begun in 2004 with support from the Vice Chancellor's Office, is hosted by the Centre for Peace and Social Justice and the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Former speakers include Ms Nada Roude (2004), Vice President of the Islamic Foundation of NSW, and Professor Vin D'Cruz (2005), Monash Asia Institute, Monash University.

Lillian Holt was the Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2003-2005 and is now an Honorary Fellow of the University. Formerly, she was the Director, of the University's Centre for Indigenous Education. Lillian was born on Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement in Queensland. She was in the first wave of Aboriginal graduates and subsequently has worked in Aboriginal education for the past thirty years. She has a BA with majors in English and Journalism (University of Queensland) and an MA from the University of Northern Colorado, USA. Currently, she is enrolled in a PhD at Melbourne University. Her topic is: Aboriginal Humour. Lillian has travelled extensively, both within Australia and overseas and has also spoken at a diverse range of conferences, nationally and internationally. In 2004, she was awarded a Gandhi/King/Ikeda Peace Prize by Morehouse College in the United States for her work in peace and reconciliation and was also named in the top ten finalists of The Bulletin magazine's Smart 100 society section. Lillian is passionately interested in the healing of race relations in Australia.

Landscapes of Exiles: once perilous, now safe (2006)
July 26th 2006
Conference website

Out of the spotlight: citizenship and participation of people with disability in regional and rural areas (2005)
September 16th 2005
Conference website

Activating Human Rights and Diversity; local and global voices (2003)
1-4 July 2003.
R. Offord, G. Bird, S. Garkawe and E. Porter, Conference Organisers
AHRDC website

Inaugural Australian Indigenous Human Rights Conference (2000)
Sponsored by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC),
Department of Women, Department of Aboriginal Affairs
S. Garkawe, Conference Organiser.

Ethics, Events, Entertainment: Annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (2000)
H.Wilson, Conference Organiser.

Chaos, Fluidity, Postmodernity, Uncertainty: A Time of Demons and Spirits, of the Muldarbi (1999)
17^th Annual Law and Society Conference
G. Bird and J. Nielsen, Conference Organisers.

Restoring the Rule of Law in Burma (1999)
SCU School of Law and Justice and NSW Law Society Conference Partners
Sponsored by the NSW Law Foundation
S. Garkawe, Conference Organiser.

Legal and Cultural Paradigms (1996)
14^th Annual Law and Society Conference, 1996
SCU School of Law and Justice and the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples
G. Bird and J. Nielsen, Conference Organisers.