Thomas Mayo (né Mayor, born c. 1977) is an Australian human rights advocate, a trade union official and an award-winning author.
As an Australian of Kaurareg Aboriginal and Kalkalgal and Erubamle Torres Strait Islander ancestry, Mayo is a signatory of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
[1] His father, Celestino Mayor, is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander man who also has Filipino and Dayak ancestry.
[8] That same year, the MUA supported Mayo as he began a 6-year campaign to enshrine a First Nations Voice in the constitution, as was called for in the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
[7] In 2017, Thomas Mayo was a signatory to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which was printed onto a large canvas and afterwards decorated by Anangu law women.
In September 2024, Mayo delivered the Renate Kamener Oration at the University of Melbourne, entitled "The campaign for justice and recognition continues - What's next?".
[21] In 2019 his essay "A dream that cannot be denied: On the road to Freedom Day", later published in the Griffith Review,[22] was highly commended by the Horne Prize judges.
[24] The book addresses the stereotypes and prejudices that disempower Indigenous men, and in turn their families and communities, leading to the social issues that many of them face.