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BESTSELLING First Nations author and leading Voice to Parliament referendum “Yes” campaigner Thomas Mayo will next week launch his new book in Torquay as part of a national tour.<\/p>\n

Always Was, Always Will Be<\/em> considers the future of reconciliation and justice in Australia following last year’s failed October referendum.<\/p>\n

Next week’s event is being presented by the newly formed Surf Coast for Reconciliation community group, in partnership with Torquay Books.<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, we all should want to leave the next generation a little wise, with a more peaceful, fairer world,” Mayo writes in the opening pages of Always Was, Always Will Be.<\/p>\n

“This is the vision we fought for in 2023, and we will not lose sight of it.<\/p>\n

“To achieve our goals for the future, we must take action.”<\/p>\n

Mayo will be joined by a panel of First Nations people who live and work on Wadawurrung Country, including community leader and Koori Court Elder Aunty Fay Muir, the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative’s Julie Saylor Briggs and Surfing Victoria’s Indigenous aquatics manager Jordie Campbell.<\/p>\n

The event is as an opportunity for the community to engage, listen and learn from well-respected and active members of the community and beyond, and to find out ‘What’s next?’.<\/p>\n

“Many of the 60,000 volunteers and the six million Australians who voted ‘Yes’ want to know what to do next. Some who voted ‘No’ still want progress,” Mayo writes.<\/p>\n

The book, he said, begins with the ingredients for hope: “energy, motivation and a belief in what you cannot yet see” and provides its readers with a map to “see where the hazards are, the obstacles and the barriers and finally, a clear indication of how to reach our common destination: justice and reconciliation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”.<\/p>\n

“The campaign continues.”<\/p>\n

Tickets to the Torquay event at Grant Pavilion, 11 Kuwarrk Lane, Torquay on Monday, October 28 between 6.30pm and 8.30pm are $6 and can be purchased via Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BESTSELLING First Nations author and leading Voice to Parliament referendum “Yes” campaigner Thomas Mayo will next week launch his new book in Torquay as part of a national tour. Always Was, Always Will Be considers the future of reconciliation and justice in Australia following last year’s failed October referendum. Next week’s event is being presented […]<\/p>\n

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