With interest in the Uluru Statement from the Heart growing and calls for an aboriginal voice to Parliament increasing, and a Big Dialogue on an indigenous topic in the planning, we are pleased to welcome Wesley Aird to the First Tuesday Club meeting on March 1st.

Wesley is a highly successful Queenslander. He is Director at the Centre for Indigenous Policy; General Manager at the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, Director at Blaque Digital and a public intellectual with a long history of commentary on indigenous affairs in the Australian newspaper and ABC TV 's The Drum. He has written on the sustainability of aboriginal communities and has strong perhaps contrarian views on the importance of deprivation rather than race being the yardstick for determining assistance.

Wesley will discuss the topic of "Aboriginality" in what will be an informative, intriguing and perhaps provocative experience for some.