15/08/2025
Get your tickets to the 2025 Dirrum Festival at the link in our bio.
Professor Stan Grant Jnr is a renowned journalist, author, theologian, moral philosopher, thinker, film maker and communicator. He currently holds the role of Vice Chancellor Chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging at Charles Sturt University.
Stan has had a groundbreaking four-decade career as one of Australia’s most awarded journalists. A Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Dharrawal man, Stan has blazed a trail for First Nations journalists. In a career of firsts he was the first Indigenous Political Correspondent, the first Indigenous Foreign Correspondent, he was the first Indigenous person to present a prime time commercial television news and current affairs program. For a decade he was a senior correspondent for American news giant CNN based in Asia and the Middle East. He has reported from more than seventy countries and has lived in London, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, and Beijing.
Stan will give a keynote address on this year’s festival theme Tomorrow’s Promise. This is a not-to-be missed opportunity to hear from one of Australia’s leading voices.
