Patrick Dodson: Indigenous Communities and Criminal Justice
Rethinking Crime and Punishment present:
Professor Patrick Dodson: “The Impact of the Criminal Justice System on Indigenous Communities”
5.30 pm, Tuesday 14th September, St Andrews on the Terrace, Wellington
With Introduction by: Sir Taihakurei Durie
About Patrick Dodson:
Patrick Dodson is warmly regarded across the Australian nation as the “father of Australian reconciliation”. He is one of Australia’s most respected and influential Aboriginal leaders, devoting his life to the inclusion and reconciliation of the nation with indigenous peoples. A major figure in indigenous affairs, Patrick has consistently shown remarkable leadership, courage and vision with much of this evident from childhood.
Australia’s first Aboriginal Catholic Priest, he left the priesthood in 1988. He was appointed in 1989 as one of the Commissioners of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and in 1991 became the inaugural Chairperson of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. In 2001, Patrick established the Lingiari Foundation and in 2003 he was appointed to Chair the Board of the Kimberley Development Commission. He is recognised as a National Living Treasure, receiving the 2008 Sydney Peace Price – the only international peace prize awarded in Australia – and was recently named the 2009 WA Senior Australian of the Year.
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