Dear Friends,

Following are the words with which Noel Pearson begins the first lecture of the series (the transcript can't reproduce the cadences of his oracle like voice but we can whisper it aloud to let our mind experience the ripples of thought and feeling he creates):

"We are on the last leg of a long journey.

We are encamped on the hinterlands of the great capitals of the Federation: Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and the nation’s capital: Canberra, seeking for a majority of these states in their own right and by a majority of the total of Australian electors, to approve an amendment to the Constitution of the Commonwealth, recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia through a Voice."

For the full transcript see: 

https://about.abc.net.au/speeches/noel-pearson-boyer-lecture-series-who-we-were-and-who-we-can-be/

With best wishes to you all,

Subhash