Thomas Mayor

Thomas Mayor is a Torres Strait Islander man born on Larrakia country in Darwin. As an Islander growing up on the mainland, he learned to hunt traditional foods with his father and to island dance from the Darwin community of Torres Strait Islanders. He became a wharf labourer from the age of seventeen, until he became a union official for the Maritime Union of Australia in his early thirties. Following the Uluru Convention, Thomas was entrusted to carry the sacred canvas of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He then embarked on an eighteen-month journey around the country to garner support for a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice, and a Makarrata Commission for truth-telling and agreement-making or treaties.

Friday 8 May 5pm FROM THE HEART

Saturday 9 May 5pm OLD KNOWLEDGE FOR NEW WORLDS