A series of lectures from distinguished Australians seeking to stimulate public understanding and discourse on topics of importance to our community.

Dr Shireen Morris is a constitutional lawyer and senior lecturer at Macquarie University Law School. Before that she was a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at Melbourne Law School and senior adviser on constitutional reform for Cape York Institute for 7 years. She has published several books including Radical Heart: Three Stories Make Us One (MUP, 2018), A Rightful Place: A Roadmap to Recognition (Black Inc, 2017), The Forgotten People: Liberal and Conservative Approaches to Recognising Indigenous Peoples (MUP, 2016) and A First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution (Hart Publishing, 2020) which was the topic of her PhD thesis. Shireen regularly commentates on TV and radio, and has appeared on ABC’s The Drum and QandA, as well as Channel 10’s The Project, Sky News and NITV. She has published opinion pieces in The Australian, SMH, The Age, Courier Mail and ABC Religion and Ethics. Before becoming a lawyer, Shireen spent her twenties working as an actress and singer.