publications
Essays
The Heart of Seeding First Nations Sovereignty: Our Giilangs, Our Stories (2021)
Recognising Symbolism, Why a Republic is part of the resolution (2016)
‘Keeping the fight alive’, Chapter 15: It’s Our Country - Indigenous arguments for meaningful constitutional recognition and reform (2016), p 155 - 159. (Book)
OPINIONS
Melbourne writers festival should not have cancelled Monarchy debate (2022)
Turnbull is not the referendum messiah he thinks he is (2022)
How much longer can the law justify the killing of Aboriginal people? (2022)
The COVID news from Dubbo: our First Nations kids are terrified (2021)
Five years after Don Dale, it seems young black lives still don’t matter (2021)
It’s beyond time for truth-telling, but at least there’s a move in our schools (2021)
Aboriginal lives ought to matter, not only when we die but while we are alive (2021)
Scott Morrisons one-word gesture wont unify Australia, but a bigger conversation might (2021)
High Ground highlights the power of First Nations storytelling to heal our history (2021)
Why Australia’s real COVID19 success story belongs to the First Nations (2021)
An Australian Republic without a First Nations Voice is just tokenism (2018)
Change requires courage. We need all Australians to walk with us (2017)
MEDIA
First Nations lawyer shaking up Sydney’s oldest law school (2022)
Australian Law Awards, Indigenous leader of the year, Teela Reid (2022)
Marie Claire next 25 women on their hope for the future (2021)
Tik Tok, The University of Sydney - What is the Uluru Statement from the Heart? (2022)
A reckoning with Australia’s colonial past, ArtsHub Review (2022)
Teela takes on the law as she advocates for constitutional recognition (2020)
PODCASTS
Speaking Out, ABC podcast, Teela Reid and Larissa Behrendt (2021)
Episode 87, The Truth-tellers of our time, Stand out in life
Books, books, books, Sydney Law School Podcast - A conversation with Teela Reid (2022)
Mum Shirl, The girl who became mum to thousands, spoken by Teela Reid for ABC (2022)
BLACKFULLA BOOKCLUB
my philosophy
It all begins with a brave idea. I believe the world we live in is the world we create. Imagining what is possible requires the courage to think of the world anew and take the necessary action to implement change.