Redfern Park Speech

[2][3][4] Keating's choice of location was significant; Redfern had been the centre of Aboriginal (or more specifically, Koori) culture and activism in Sydney for decades.

The speech came only six months after the Australian High Court's historic Mabo decision, which had overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius, and recognised native title in Australia for the first time.

Watson wrote about the creation of the speech in his 2002 memoir, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: A Portrait of Paul Keating PM.

[9] Keating's speech was the first stepping stone for a later Labor Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, to offer a formal apology to Indigenous Australians for past government practices and policies, delivered in Canberra in February 2008.

[2] In 2019, the Australian electronic musician Paul Mac sampled the speech in the track "Redfern Address (In Memory of Vision)" on his album Mesmerism.

[13] The Redfern Statement united leading members of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples from across key sectors, and had helped to grow an alliance of supporters.

[16] On 14 February 2017, Dr Jackie Huggins, who chairs the Close the Gap campaign, gave the statement to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, and the leader of the Australian Greens, Richard Di Natale, ahead of the 9th Closing the Gap Report to Parliament.