2026 Festival
Speaker Profile
Rachel Perkins
Rachel Perkins is a proud Arrente and Kalkadoon woman with German and Irish heritage, and one of Australia’s most significant storytellers. An award-winning writer, director and producer, her work includes First Australians, The Australian Wars, Total Control, Radiance, Bran Nue Dae and Redfern Now. Founder of Blackfella Films, Perkins has spent over 30 years leading truth-telling on screen and mentoring generations of First Nations creatives.
Australian History: Reframing the past, realising the future
Rachel Perkins and Henry Reynolds with Santilla Chingaipe
Through dedicated research, books and documentary making, Rachel Perkins and Henry Reynolds have changed forever the story of our nation. They discuss their shared quest for facts-based evidence and truth telling, and what positive impact a shared and acknowledged history might have on black and white Australia.