ANTaR has a close and unique working relationship with, and receives strong support from, Indigenous leaders and prominent individuals. Below are members of ANTaR's Indigenous Reference Group, who are the main sources of Indigenous advice and direction for ANTaR's national activities.
| Patrick Dodson
Patrick
is a member of the Yawuru peoples of the Southern Kimberly region of
Western Australia. He is currently Founding Chair of The Lingiari Foundation.
He was the Founding Chair of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation,
a former Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and former
Catholic Priest. He is one of Australia's most respected Aboriginal
leaders.
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 | Professor Mick Dodson
Mick
is a member of the Yawuru peoples of the Southern Kimberly region of
Western Australia. He is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies at
the Australian National University and Chair of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Chair of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Program.
Mick was a former HREOC Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social
Justice Commissioner and Director of the Northern Land Council, amongst
many other significant positions within the national Indigenous
community.
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 | Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE
Lowitja
is a member of the Yunkunytjatjara peoples of Central Australia. She is
currently a Visiting Professor at Flinders University. She was the
inaugural Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and Co-patron of the Journey of Healing. She has received many awards and honours including Australian of the Year in 1984.
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 | Dr Bill JonasDr
Bill Jonas is a Worimi man from the Karuah River area of New South
Wales. He was Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
Commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)
from 1999 to 2004. Previous to this, Dr Jonas was Director of the
National Museum of Australia, and from 1991 until 1996, he was
Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies in Canberra. Bill has also held numerous other
academic and government positions, and has received many awards,
including the Order of Australia (AM) in 1993.
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 | Professor Marcia Langton
Marcia
is currently Professor of Indigenous Studies at Melbourne University.
Marcia has many years experience working as an anthropologist in
Indigenous affairs with land councils, the Queensland government,
commissions and universities. Marcia was joint winner of the inaugural
Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year in 2002.
Marcia's work in anthropology and Aboriginal rights advocacy was
recognised in 1993 when she was made a member of the Order of Australia.
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 | Senator Aden Ridgeway
Aden
Ridgeway was born in Macksville in northern NSW and is from the
Gumbayngirr people of that area. He was until recently a Democrat Senator
for NSW and the only Indigenous member of Federal Parliament. Aden is
also Chairman of the Board of Bangarra Dance Company and a board member
of the Tikkun Australia Foundation, the Lumbu Indigenous Community
Foundation and a trustee of the Charlie Perkins Children's Trust. Aden
served on the Sydney ATSIC Regional Council for its first two terms and
was Executive Director of the NSW Aboriginal Land Council for five
years until 1990. He was also a member of the National Indigenous
Working Group (NIWG) and the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
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 | Linda Burney, MHR
Linda
is is a member of the Wiradjuri Nation. She is currently the ALP Member
for Canterbury, NSW. Linda was the Director General of the NSW
Department of Aboriginal Affairs from 2000-2003, wrote policy for the
Aboriginal Education Unit of the NSW Department of Education and
Training, and was a teacher at Lethbridge Park Public School. Linda has
been a member of the National Social Justice Task Force of the
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, member of the
Executive of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, and is a member
of the Board of Trustees at the University of Western Sydney.
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 | Professor Larissa BehrendtLarissa is Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies and Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning
at the University of Technology, Sydney and Director of Ngiya, the
National Institute of Indigenous Law, Policy and Practice. She
currently sits on the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, the Serious
Offenders Review Council, the AIATSIS Council, the UTS Council, the NSW
Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee. Larissa is the author of
Aboriginal Dispute Resolution, Achieving Social Justice and most
recently the novel Home, which won the 2002 David Unaipon award. Larissa talks with George Negus about self-determination - ABC
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 | David Ross
David is currently the Director of the Central Land Council,
based in Alice Springs. David has a long history of service to the
Aboriginal people of Central Australia and to the Central Land Council
(CLC). Born and raised in Alice Springs, he commenced work at the CLC
in 1979 and appointed Director in 1989. David was also previously an
ATSIC Commissioner and Director of the Indigenous Land Corporation
(ILC).
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 | Peter Yu
Peter
is a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia who for the past 30
years has worked at a state, national and international level on behalf
of Indigenous communities. Peter was the Executive Director of the
Kimberley Land Council for ten years and member of the National
Indigenous Working Group (NIWG) that negotiated with the Keating
Government an agreement in relation to native title.
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 | Olga Havnen
Olga
is of Western Arrernte descent and grew up in Tennant Creek in central
Australia. Olga currently is the Senior Policy Officer of the NT
Government's Indigenous Policy Unit. Olga's previous positions have
included Indigenous Programs Director with the Fred Hollows Foundation,
and Executive Officer with the National Indigenous Working Group
(NIWG). She has also worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade and the Central Land Council. She is a Board Member of the
Diplomacy Training Program (UNSW).
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 | Lester-Irabinna Rigney
Letser-Irabinna
is an Aboriginal academic from the Narungga, Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri
Nations of South Australia. Lester has worked in the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre for Higher Education and Research at Finders University since 1993. He is a Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies and Education. |
