Mick Dodson AM, BJuris 1974, LLB 1978
Convenor, ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia
Mick Dodson is a member of the Yawuru people of the southern Kimberley,
Western Australia. He is director of legal and anthropological consultants
Dodson, Bauman & Associates Pty Ltd.
Mick was Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social
justice commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission.
In addition to his qualifications from Monash University, Mick was awarded
a Doctor of Letters from the University of Technology Sydney and holds an
honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of New South Wales. Mick
worked with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service before becoming a
barrister in 1981. He joined the Northern Land Council as senior legal
adviser in 1984 and became director in 1990.
Mick is a prominent advocate on land rights and other issues affecting
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and has worked for the
rights and interests of indigenous people worldwide through various roles
with the United Nations. He is also a founding director of the Australian
Indigenous Leadership Centre, and a member and current chairman of the
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Currently, Mick is professor in Indigenous Studies at the Australian
National University and convenor of its Institute for Indigenous
Australia. Mick was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2003,
for service to the indigenous community and as a campaigner for native
title rights.
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