Megan Krakouer, a Menang woman of the Noongar Nation, is a director of the National Suicide Prevention and Trauma Recovery Project and the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council.
She has been central to recent Invasion Day protests as well as First Nations Deaths in Custody Committees, through which she has helped expose the cruel treatment of children at the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre.
Krakouer also played a leading role in organising nation-wide protests following the racist murder of Noongar boy Cassius Turvey in 2022.
She was awarded City of Perth Community Citizen of the Year in 2023 for her activism.
Megan is a speaker at the conference session No justice, no peace: Achieving First Nation sovereignty 10am AWST (Boorloo/Perth time), Saturday 29 June at the Boorloo Activist Centre in Boorloo/Perth.
For online attendees in Adelaide and Darwin the session will start at 11:30am ACST, Saturday 29 June.
For online attendees in Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney the session will start at 12pm AEST, Saturday 29 June.
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