Following the failed 2023 referendum, many questions have arisen as to the best way forward to promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. In this episode, law students Charles Hao and Mahati Garimella talk to Associate Professor Elisa Arcioni about her work on inclusion and exclusion within the Australian Constitution, led by the overwhelming question – what comes next?
Elisa is a leading scholar of constitutional identity - who are 'the people' in the Australian Constitution? She works in the field of public law, focusing in particular on questions of inclusion and exclusion under the Constitution. Elisa is currently engaged in a 3 year project on claims on belonging in Australian law and history (with Helen Irving and Rayner Thwaites). Elisa is a member of the Editorial Board for CERIDAP, an outgoing convenor of the International Association of Constitutional Law Research Group on Membership and Exclusion under Constitutions, a former Executive Council member of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and former Editor of the Sydney Law Review. Elisa joined the University of Sydney Law School in 2012, prior to which she was lecturer in law at the University of Wollongong and associate to the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby, High Court of Australia.
