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Professor Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way.  In his poetic words and inspirational storytelling, he shares how embracing a path to peace and forgiveness is rooted in the Wiradjuri spiritual practice of Yindyamarra – deep silence and respect.

Inspired by spiritual thinkers and sages from around the world, he finds connections with Plato, Saint Augustine, Isaac Newton, jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, Saint Teresa of Avila, Simone Weil, among others. Murriyang is a Wiradjuri prayer in one long uninterrupted breath, challenging Western notions of linear, historical time in favour of Indigenous concepts of deep, circular time – the Dreaming.

Taking extracts from his new book Murriyang, in this presentation Stan pays respect to his father – a Wiradjuri cultural leader – and asks how any of us can say goodbye to those we love.

Professor Stan Grant is a Journalist, Author, Moral Philosopher, Film Maker and Communicator and has had a groundbreaking four-decade career as one of Australia’s most awarded journalists.

A Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharawal man, Stan has blazed a trail for First Nations journalists. In a career of firsts, he was the first Indigenous Political Correspondent, the first Indigenous Foreign Correspondent, he was the first Indigenous person to present a prime-time commercial television news and current affairs program.

For a decade he was a senior correspondent for American news giant CNN based in Asia and the Middle East. He has reported from more than seventy countries and has lived in London, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, and Beijing.

He is a best-selling author of seven critically hailed and award winning books covering world affairs, philosophy, theology, political science, Indigenous history.

Stan has been a professor of Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University, Professor of Journalism at Monash University and Director of Asia Pacific arm of the Denmark based Constructive Institute.

He has won the prestigious US Peabody and DuPont journalism awards. He is a four-time winner of the Asia TV Awards and three-time winner of Australia's highest journalism award, 'The Walkleys'.