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Professor Mary Ann Bin-Sallik
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Professor Mick Dodson, AM
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Ms Esther Djayhgurrnga
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Mr Neil Sterritt
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Ms Sharon Clark
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Session 8: Capacity Development
for Effective Governance |
Professor
Mary Ann Bin-Sallik
Professor MaryAnn Bin-Sallik is of the East Kimberly
Djaru clan. She is
currently the Dean of Faculty of Indigenous Education
and Research (FIRE)
at Charles Darwin University and also holds the Ranger
Chair in Aboriginal Studies. She has both a Masters
Degree and Doctorate in education from Harvard University.
She also has qualifications in Community Development,
Social Work and Nursing. Before taking up her present
position at CDU she was Dean of the College of Indigenous
Education and Research at the University of South Australia.
She previously held positions in the South
Australian Institute of Technology and the South Australian
College of
Advanced Education. She has also held visiting appointments
in the School
of Behavioural Science at Northern Arizona University,
USA and the School
of Maori Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. |
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Professor
Mick Dodson
Professor Mick Dodson AM is a member of the Yawuru people,
the traditional Aboriginal owners of land and waters
in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region
of Western Australia. He is the inaugural Chair of the
Institute for Indigenous Australia at the Australian
National University in Canberra, Chairperson of the
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies and a Director of Dodson, Bauman and
Associates, Legal and Anthropological Consultants. |
Professor
Dodson was Australia’s first Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner with the
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. He holds
a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and a Bachelor of Laws from
Monash University, an honorary Doctor of Letters from
the University of Technology Sydney and an honorary
Doctor of Laws from the University of NSW. |
Professor
Dodson was formerly the Counsel assisting the Royal
Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. He was
also the Director of the Indigenous Law Centre at the
University of New South Wales and he has been a Director
of the Northern Land Council. He is a member of the
New South Wales Judicial Commission and the Western
Australian Law Reform Commission. He is a board member
of the Reconciliation Australia and Lingiari Foundations
and he is the current chairman of the Australian Indigenous
Leadership Centre. |
Professor
Dodson is a vigorous advocate of the rights and interests
of Indigenous peoples of Australia and the world, and
in January 2003 he was made a Member of the Order of
Australia for his service to the Indigenous Community |
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Ms
Esther Djayhgurrnga
Ms Esther Djayhgurrnga has been the Principal of Gunbalanya
Community Education Centre since 2002. Prior to this
she was a Senior Executive Teacher in the same school
and she also taught Early Childhood classes. She was
driven by her dreams of seeing her community as a leader
in the field of education. |
Ms
Djayhgurrnga is a Kunwinjku speaker. Her people are
from Gunbalanya in Western Arnhemland, 350km east of
Darwin. She completed her Bachelor of Arts (Education)
at Deakin University in Geelong in 1986 and she also
completed a Graduate Diploma in Educational Administration
at Batchelor Institute in Darwin in 1997. She is currently
a member of the Steering Committee which liaises with
the Education Department concerning Indigenous education
throughout the Northern Territory. She is also actively
involved with Demed Homeland Resource Centre committee
as well as the Gunbalanya Partnership Heads of Agency
committee. |
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Mr
Neil Sterritt
Mr Neil Sterritt has worked as a consultant in a range
of Indigenous issues in Canada and overseas, and specialises
in leadership development and issues of governance of
Indigenous corporations (roles and responsibilities,
emphasis on conflicts of interest, fiduciary responsibilities).
As President of the Git'ksan-Wet'suwe'ten Tribal Council
(1981-1987), he organised and coordinated Delgamuukw
v. Queen aboriginal title court case. He was Co-chair
of the 1992 Federal-Provincial constitutional round
on Aboriginal issues (Work Group III), and Director
of Self-government and Land Claims, Assembly of First
Nations, Ottawa (1988-1991). |
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Ms
Sharon Clark
Ms Sharon Clark was born in Babinda in North Queensland
and moved to the Northern Territory in 1972. She joined
the NT Department of Finance and Planning (now NT Treasury)
as a Finance Officer in Training. She has also been
the inaugural CEO of Ariginisle (National Employment
& Training Taskforce Company) in Darwin and Cairns
and the Systems Manager, Operations Manager and CEO
of Careskills Group Training Company in Melbourne. Ms
Clark was also the Managing Director of AAA Hire Power
Recruitment and Management Consultancy Company in Melbourne
as well as the State Director of the Office of Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Health NT in Darwin. She
completed a Bachelor of Business at NTU majoring in
Management in 1994, and a Day Trading course in 2000. |
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