Advisory Committee

​The ALRC forms an advisory committee, or panel of experts, for each Inquiry. 

  • Councillor Roy Ah See, Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, Central Coast
  • Associate Professor Thalia Anthony, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Professor Larissa Behrendt, Director of Research, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Dr Harry Blagg, Professor of Criminology, Director of the Centre for Indigenous Peoples and Community Justice Law School, University of Western Australia
  • Professor Tom Calma AO, Consultant, Canberra
  • Josephine Cashman, Lawyer, Sydney
  • Professor Chris Cunneen, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales 
  • Professor Megan Davis, Indigenous Law Centre, University of New South Wales
  • Professor Mick Dodson AM, Australian National University
  • Dr Victoria Hovane, Tjallara Consulting, Perth
  • The Hon Bob Debus AM
  • Mick Gooda, Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory
  • Adjunct Professor Russell Hogg, Crime and Justice Research Centre, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
  • Tony McAvoy SC, Frederick Jordan Chambers, Sydney
  • Dr Hannah McGlade, School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Curtin University, Perth
  • Geoff McKechnie APM, Assistant Commissioner, NSW Police Force
  • Wayne Muir, CEO, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Melbourne
  • Susan Murphy, Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, Perth
  • Commissioner Sally Sievers, Anti-Discrimination Commission, Darwin
  • Professor Julie Stubbs, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • George Zdenkowski, Magistrate and Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania
  • Pauline Wright, President, Law Society of New South Wales