Don’t let ‘low bar politics’ hold back Indigenous voice, advocate to say in Lingiari lecture

‘Our voice should be in the rule book – the constitution – as it should have been long ago,’ Thomas Mayor will say in the 2022 Lingiari lecture. Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Australia should reject “low bar politics” and act with the courage of Indigenous land rights leader Vincent Lingiari to fight for constitutional recognition and a voice to parliament, Thomas Mayor will argue in the annual Lingiari lecture.

The Torres Strait Islander man, Uluru Statement from the Heart advocate and maritime union member will give the annual oration at the Freedom Day festival in the remote Northern Territory community of Kalkaringi on Friday evening.