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Community Matters
Edition 4, 2018 • August
What is community leadership?
BY KERRYN BURGESS, EDITOR
There’s someone I want you to meet. Keenan Mundine, pictured above, has just returned from Geneva, where he addressed the United Nations Humans Rights Commission, urging it to pressure Australia to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14. When Keenan’s not addressing the UNHRC, he’s running his own business, Inside Out Aboriginal Justice Consultancy. And on weekends you’ll find him hanging out and playing basketball with at-risk Indigenous youth, helping them to make
good choices through an outreach program he operates in inner Sydney. Yet until he was in his late twenties, Keenan had spent most of his life in prison. In the photo above, taken in 2009, he was serving time at Oberon Correctional Centre, NSW. He was still behind bars when he began the incredibly hard work that has brought him to the place he occupies today, as a community leader working to improve people’s lives through his vision, his determination and his continuing work.
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