Professor Michael James "Mick" Dodson (born 10 April 1950 - ) B Juris; LIB; LID(HC) Lit D (HC) Barrister, Lawyer, Academic
Introduction: Mick Dodson is an Indigenous Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia. His brother is Patrick Dodson, also a noted Aboriginal leader. (Source: Wikipedia) Professor Mick Dodson is a member of the Yawuru peoples the traditional Aboriginal owners of land and waters in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia. (Source: ANU) Education: Born to an Aboriginal mother and an Irish-Australian father in Katherine, Northern Territory, and orphaned at 10, he escaped the affront of what he later helped dub the "stolen generations" when he and his older brother, Pat, were granted an education by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart at Monivae College in far away Hamilton, western Victoria. The Dodson
brothers would later emerge as leaders of Australia's reconciliation
movements, but their inner strength was recognised early. Pat was made captain of that large, overwhelmingly white boarding school in the 1960s, and Mick became a prefect and house captain, each elected by their fellow students. Mick went on to study law at Monash University, becoming in 1981 Victoria's first Aboriginal barrister. He is now a professor of law at the Australian National University, Canberra, where he is also director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies. (Source: The Age)
He completed a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws at Monash University. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Technology Sydney in 1998.
Professor Dodson also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University
of NSW.
(Source:
ANU) In November 2010, Dodson was the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Canberra in recognition of his contribution to human rights, social justice and Indigenous affairs in Australia and around the world: YouTube: Mick Dodson University of Canberra (URL: https://youtu.be/Sx1Kgk44JTg )
Employment: Following graduation, he worked as a criminal solicitor for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service [from 1976 to 1981], and later as a criminal defence barrister at the Victorian Bar, where he still practices as a barrister specialising in native title. [He joined the Northern Land Council as Senior Legal Adviser in 1984 and
became Director of the Council in 1990.
(Source:
ANU)
] From August 1988 to October 1990, Mick was Counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He has been a member of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Advisory Council and secretary of the North Australian Legal Aid Service. He is the current Chair of Council of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), and is also a member of AIATSIS.
He is the former Chairman of the National Aboriginal Youth Law Centre Advisory Board, and has been a member of the National Children's & Youth Centre Board and the advisory panels of the Rob Riley and Koowarta Scholarships. Mick is a member of the Publications Committee for the University of New South Wales' Australian Indigenous Law Review (formerly called the Australian Indigenous Law Reporter), and is on the Editorial Board of Australian Aboriginal Studies. He is a member of the New South Wales Judicial Commission and a former special commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia.
He is Chair of the ANU Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)
Committee and a member of the Board of the Lingiari Foundation. He served on
the board of Reconciliation Australia and was, until recently, its Co-Chair.
He was a founding member and chairman of the Australian Indigenous
Leadership Centre. Mick Dodson has been a prominent advocate on land rights and other issues affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as well as a vigorous advocate of the rights and interests of indigenous peoples around the world.
He was
the Co-Deputy Chair of the Technical Committee for the 1993 International
Year of the World's Indigenous People and was chairman of the United Nations
Advisory Group for the Voluntary Fund for the Decade of Indigenous Peoples.
He served for 5 years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the United
Nations Indigenous Voluntary Fund and in January 2005, commenced a 3-year
appointment as a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous
Issues. He was subsequently reappointed for a further 3 years to December
2010.
Mick
participated in the crafting of the text of the Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous
Populations (WGIP), and the Inter-sessional Working Group of the Human
Rights Commission which was adopted overwhelmingly in 2007 by the United
Nations General Assembly.
In 2009,
Mick Dodson was named Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day
Council.
From September 2011 to February 2012 inclusive,
Professor Dodson was at Harvard University where he was the Malcolm Fraser &
Gough Whitlam Harvard Chair in Australian Studies and a Visiting Professor,
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He was based at the
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy in the John F Kennedy School of
Government. (Source:
ANU)
Experiences:
Opportunities and Honours YouTube: Professor Mick Dodson AM - Australian of the Year 2009 Acceptance speech (URL: https://youtu.be/sonB7uLmOuw )
PowToon..."Mick Dodson come on down!" Primary Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
1. Research Mick Dodson, his life and achievements using the information above. 2. Create a "This is Your Life" animated video using PowToon for Mick Dodson. 3. Present your PowToon to your class.
Concerns of Young Indigenous Australians Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and Social Capability Australian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding Australian Curriculum: Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
1. In groups of 3 - 4 students, go to and read the PDF at the Australian Institute of Health & Welfare 2018 (40 pages but there is a lot of acknowledgments at the beginning)
2. "Research shows that Indigenous youth are physiologically, socio-economically and psychologically disadvantaged. They face many challenges in life and are more likely than non-Indigenous youth to experience a variety of hardships including ill-health and reduced wellbeing. Furthermore, Indigenous young people are over-represented in the child protection system, juvenile justice system and other statutory bodies. Two-thirds of Indigenous males and one-quarter of Indigenous females have had contact with the juvenile justice system, a rate much higher than non-Indigenous young people." (Source: Kids HelpLine) 3. Using Voki, create a presentation explaining the concerns of young Indigenous Australians from this report. Present it at a school assembly.
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