The Bennelong Society is dedicated to acting for Indigenous interests

He attempted to be a bridge between two cultures and two centuries later we are still coming to terms with an understanding.

Judged by today’s standards the failure of past policies has resulted in the marginalisation of Indigenous people from the social, cultural and economic development of mainstream Australian society. This marginalisation has led to a culture of dependency and victim-hood and has condemned many of Australia’s Indigenous people to a lifetime of poverty.

It is the aim of the Bennelong Society to provide a constructive dialogue on these matters.

In conclusion I can do no better than quote Nicolas Rothwell who wrote in The Australian newspaper on 5 May:

"With such widespread goodwill and enthusiasm for the Aboriginal world alive in mainstream society and such awareness of it’s plight, it is hard to believe a muscular effective bipartisan effort is really out of the question. But the first step in changing reality is to describe it with merciless accuracy."

We believe this ‘merciless accuracy’ will be available on our website – www.bennelong.com.au.