The 2022 Boyer Lectures: Recognition by Noel Pearson will reflect on 'where we have come since W.E.H. Stanner’s 1968 Boyer Lectures After the Dreaming and look at where we are today and what lies in prospect, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and for Australians at large'.

The five lectures will cover the following topics:

• Recognition – Who we were, who we are and who we can be
• Recognition – A rightful but not separate place
• Recognition – A job guarantee for the bottom million
• Recognition – Education Recognition – Identity

Noel Pearson is the Founder and Director of Strategy of the Cape York Partnership, a non-profit organisation that works to empower Indigenous families and communities in Cape York and Cairns to break the cycle of disadvantage.

He is Founder and Co-Chair of Good to Great Schools Australia, a not-for-profit organisation that aims to support Australian education systems and communities to help their schools successfully deliver 21st century programs.

He has served as a member of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians and the Referendum Council, which seeks to recognise Indigenous peoples in the federal Constitution.

ABC Chair, Ita Buttrose, said it was a significant moment for an Indigenous leader of Noel Pearson’s standing to accept the invitation given the national discussion about the referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament.