Nin Tomas Memorial Lecture: Professor Mick Dodson

Professor Mick Dodson, a member of the Yawuru peoples, is the current Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies and a Professor in the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University. Professor Dodson has been a prominent advocate for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Indigenous peoples around the world. He participated in the crafting of the text of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; spent six years as a member of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; was Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner; and was counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. In 2009 Professor Dodson was named Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day Council.