Record ID:
35417671 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • nb2001038396
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19500410
  • Katherine, N.T.
Lived/located in:
  • Canberra
Occupations:
  • University lecturer Academic Lawyer Activist
Used for:
  • Dodson, Mick, 1950-
Notes:
  • Travelling Aboriginal Australia, c2000 t.p. (Michael Dodson) p.ix (director of Dodson, Bauman & Associates Pty Ltd., Chairman of the Australian Inst. of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies)
  • The 2015 Kenneth Myer lecture presented by Mick Dodson at the National Library of Australia on 27 August 2015 signed rights agreement (Professor Mick Dodson AM. Date of birth: 10 April, 10)
  • Australian National University website, viewed 4 September 2015 (Mick Dodson AM, Professor, B Juris; LlB; LlD(HC) Lit D (HC) ... 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. He is currently Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University. He is a Professor of law at the ANU College of Law. Professor Dodson is also currently a Director of Dodson; Bauman & Associates Pty Ltd - Legal & Anthropological Consultants. He is formerly the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of New South Wales; Kensington. Mick Dodson was Australia's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity. He served as Commissioner from April 1993 to January 1998. Born in Katherine; Northern Territory; Mick was educated in Katherine; Darwin and Victoria. He completed a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws at Monash University) https://law.anu.edu.au/staff/mick-dodson-am
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, viewed online 4 September 2015 (Mick Dodson, Australian activist and scholar. Mick Dodson, in full Michael James Dodson (born April 10, 1950, Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia), Australian Aboriginal political activist and scholar who was named the 2009 Australian of the Year in recognition of his work to help better the lives of the country’s indigenous peoples and to promote reconciliation between Australia’s indigenous and nonindigenous residents) http://www.britannica.com/biography/Mick-Dodson
  • Wikipedia, viewed online 4 September 2015 (Michael James "Mick" Dodson, AM, BJuris, LLB, DLitt, LLD, FASSA (born 10 April 1950, in Katherine, Northern Territory) is an Indigenous Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia ... graduated with degrees in Jurisprudence and Law from Monash University in 1974, as the first Indigenous person to graduate from law in Australia ... worked as a criminal solicitor for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service, and later as a criminal defence barrister at the Victorian Bar, where he still practices as a barrister specialising in native title. He has worked extensively as a legal adviser in native title and human rights, and as an academic in Indigenous law. He is currently Professor of Law at the Australian National University, as the director of its National Centre for Indigenous Studies ... On 25 January 2009, he was named Australian of the Year. He now lives and works in Canberra) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Dodson
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)44226
  • abv13084559
  • 000000419966
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX15516
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc