National NAIDOC Award Winners

Stephen Hagan - Person of the Year (Male)

Stephen lives in Toowoomba and is an internationally renowned academic, author, publisher and political advocate.

Stephen Hagan is a talented author who recently published a book called “The N Word – One Man Stand” that won the Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Indigenous Literature in October 2005.

He has also recently written a book titled “Australia’s Blackest Sporting Moments: The Top 100”, which he published under his new publishing house, Ngalga Warralu (Talking to Strangers) Publishing.

Stephen is currently principal columnist for the Koori Mail, writing on contemporary Indigenous issues every fortnight under Hagan’s View. He speaks regularly on Indigenous radio programs including SBS radio, Radio National, the National Indigenous Radio Network and CAAMA radio.

He was the focus of an ABC TV Message Stick documentary in November 2005, which was repeated as it was received so well. Stephen has since won a contract with the Australian Film Commission to do a follow up documentary titled: ‘Nigger Lovers – A documentary of Injustice’ that will follow Stephen’s legal and political campaign.

He has spoken at several national and international education and racism conferences, and holds an academic position teaching Indigenous studies at the University of Southern Queensland.

This year he will publish his first children’s book, “Melly and the Bilby”, as well as his first feature book “Traditional Love Child”.