[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-271625-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":81,"doc-detail-271625-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":74,"head_meta":76,"extra_data":78,"updated_unix":80},105,"en","19th-vincent-lingiari-memorial-lecture-looking-forward-looking-back","19th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture - Looking Forward, Looking Back","","The 19th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture delivered by the Hon Ken Wyatt reflects on Indigenous storytelling and its continuing role in shaping Australian identity. Using Slim Dusty’s “Looking Forward, Looking Back” as a starting point, the speech links past knowledge carried through song to shared purpose for future generations. It outlines priorities including local truth-telling, constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, giving voice to local communities, and addressing disadvantage across Indigenous Australia.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/religion-spirituality/","Religion & Spirituality",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/19th-vincent-lingiari-memorial-lecture-looking-forward-looking-back/271625/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/19th-vincent-lingiari-memorial-lecture-looking-forward-looking-back/271625.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"River Wang","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document","2026-10-09","2026-09-15",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":55},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",8,{"@type":57,"mainEntity":58},"FAQPage",[59,65,69],{"name":60,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":62},"Why does the minister reference Slim Dusty at the start of the lecture?","Question",{"text":63,"@type":64},"The minister connects Slim Dusty to storytelling and to how his songs brought Indigenous Australia into the broader Australian culture through music.","Answer",{"name":66,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":67},"What is the main message drawn from “Looking Forward, Looking Back”?",{"text":68,"@type":64},"Looking back reflects prior journeys and experiences, while looking forward calls for a united purpose for future generations together.",{"name":70,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":71},"Which priorities does the lecture outline for advancing Indigenous affairs?",{"text":72,"@type":64},"It outlines local truth-telling, constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, giving voice to local communities, and addressing disadvantage in Indigenous Australia.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},271625,1789963757,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",[84,88,92,96,101,106,111,115,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":85,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":89,"show_sort_weight":90,"slug":91},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":97,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":102,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":103,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":107,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":108,"show_sort_weight":109,"slug":110},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":112,"show_sort_weight":113,"slug":114},"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":116,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":131},{"doc_id":79,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":116,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},1099514067438,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/100002539ee87300030?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1780474512215547542","19th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture (2019)\nDelivered on Thursday 15 August, at the Charles Darwin University, Casuarina campus amphitheatre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia\nThe Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP, Minister for Indigenous Australians\nAMKaya wangju – hello and welcome, in Noongar.\nAs a Noongar, Wongi and Yamatji man standing before you, I thank Bilawara for her warm welcome this evening.\nI formally acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand, the Larrakia people, and pay, my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.\nGood evening to all of you who have joined us this evening and in particular, I want to acknowledge my brothers and sisters who, many that I’ve walked, the challenges of change with.\nThe words of a song that was sung by the much-loved Slim Dusty of Looking Back and Looking Forward was the basis for what I wanted to cover tonight because of several reasons but Slim in particular was loved by Indigenous Australians – Slim was a storyteller.\nSince the beginning of our time our nation’s sacred knowledge and identity has been kept and shared in song and in transmission through our stories.\nSong is important to our culture, and to Australian culture. Music and the stories presented through songs are understood and loved by all Australians.\nIn Slim’s case, his songs were heard drifting throughout Australia’s living rooms, pubs, town halls, on the old wireless radio and through the records we played.\nThrough his songs and storytelling, Slim brought Indigenous Australia into suburbia, into the minds and hearts of the nation and the wider Australian culture.\nThe words you would’ve heard in his song ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back’ – are very poignant – and help paint an image of modern-day Australia.\nI won’t sing it to you, because that’ll sort of distract from the quality of the music, but as Slim says:\nLooking Forward, Looking Back.\nWe’ve come a long way down the track.\nWe’ve got a long way left to go.\nIndigenous Australians, in everything we do, draw on the insights of our journey, the knowledge and wisdom of the past, and use that to embrace our future generations.\nAs we look back, we see the tracks of those who’ve walked before us.\nFor each of us, looking back evokes different memories and experiences, but I want us to be able to Look Forward – together – with a united purpose and determination for our children and grandchildren. And whilst for us as well – we have lived our time.\nThat’s why I’m here, with you, at the 19th annual Lingiari Lecture.\nTonight I will outline how I see us walking together, to advance:\nLocal truth-telling;\nConstitution Recognition of Indigenous Australians;\nGiving voice to local communities; and\nAddressing disadvantage in Indigenous Australia.\nSo why did I start with Slim?\nI’m told that, back in the day, there were juke-boxes here in the Territory that had nothing but Slim Dusty records on them. And as a Slim Dusty and Country Western music fan, I can certainly understand that sentiment.\nBut the thing that I really admired about him was that he sang about the land, about country, about people and our Australian way of life.\nHe sang about us, and to us, travelling in the old purple with his caravan to many remote communities and country towns across Australia.\nSlim once said the most valuable performance fee he ever received in his entire career was the fee paid by a young girl called Miriam from Daly River here in the Territory.\nMiriam and the children of the Daly River Mission wanted to see Slim perform but they couldn’t travel to Darwin to see him.\nSo together they saved up some money and wrote to Slim offering him an attractive performance fee if he came to their town.\nThe performance fee they offered was five dollars. But that was good enough for Slim.\nHe came to Daly, accepted the fee, and put on a show.\nOver the course of his life, he visited that community many times. He’d go out to the mustering camp for dinner and share their black tea and bully be","cbCait15FSmE8mFY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait15FSmE8mFY","docx",27471,13,"English","# 19th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture (2019)\n## Welcome, acknowledgment, and the role of song\n## Slim Dusty’s storytelling and Indigenous experience\n## Advancing local truth-telling and constitutional recognition\n## Giving voice to communities and addressing disadvantage","[{\"question\":\"Why does the minister reference Slim Dusty at the start of the lecture?\",\"answer\":\"The minister connects Slim Dusty to storytelling and to how his songs brought Indigenous Australia into the broader Australian culture through music.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the main message drawn from “Looking Forward, Looking Back”?\",\"answer\":\"Looking back reflects prior journeys and experiences, while looking forward calls for a united purpose for future generations together.\"},{\"question\":\"Which priorities does the lecture outline for advancing Indigenous affairs?\",\"answer\":\"It outlines local truth-telling, constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians, giving voice to local communities, and addressing disadvantage in Indigenous Australia.\"}]","19th Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture - Looking Forward, Looking Back | DOCX",1789461008,33]