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Living Memory Finalist
Dr Emma Lee is an Indigenous academic and activist from Tebrakunna Country, north-east Tasmania. A proud Trawlwulwuy woman, she is a founding architect of 'Reset the Relationship', a novel approach to the contract between Tasmania and its First Nations people. Dr Lee adopted a form of 'love-bombing' politicians, flipping the idea of having an adversarial relationship with government to one of kinship and kindness, openly thanking white Australia for its genocide and dispossession. Her passion, commitment and new ways of thinking have led to enormous inroads in gaining Indigenous fishing rights, parks reform and a Voice to Parliament.
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