- Frank Brennan
Father Frank Brennan, AO,SJ , aJesuit priest and lawyer, is Professor of Law in theInstitute of Legal Studies , at theAustralian Catholic University . He has also been the Director of theUniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre inSydney . He is the son of SirGerard Brennan , a former Chief Justice of theHigh Court of Australia .He is an Officer of the
Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians (1995 ). WithPat Dodson he shared the inaugural ACFOA Human Rights Award (1996). His contact and ivolvement with Aboriginal Australians began early in his priestly ministry. In 1975 he worked in the inner Sydney parish of Redfern with priest activist Fr Ted Kennedy, where he also met and worked withMum (Shirl) Smith among others who were founding Indigenous Australian legal, health and political initiatives.In 1997, he was Rapporteur at the
Australian Reconciliation Convention . In 1998 he was named a Living National Treasure during his involvement in theWik debate and was appointed an Ambassador for Reconciliation by theCouncil for Aboriginal Reconciliation .In
2001 -02 he spent 18 months inEast Timor as Director of theJesuit Refugee Service and was awarded the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal for that work.Books
He has written extensively on Aboriginal Land Rights, including:
*"The Wik Debate"
*"One Land One Nation"
*"Sharing the Country"
*"Land Rights Queensland"
*"Finding Common Ground" (co-authored)
*"Reconciling Our Differences" (co-authored)and onCivil liberties andHuman rights , including:
*"Acting on Conscience"
*"Too Much Order With Too Little Law"
*"Legislating Liberty"
*"Tampering with Asylum"
*"The Timor Sea's Oil"
*"Gas; What's Fair?"External links
* [http://abcasiapacific.com/nexus/stories/s959312.htm Profile of Frank Brennan at Asia Pacific on the ABC website]
* [http://www.uniya.org/talks/profiles.html Profile on the Uniya website]
* [http://www.uniya.org/talks/index.html Frank Brennan's selected talks and transcripts]
* [http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/news_and_events/doc/BrennanCitation.doc Citation for D.Ll. "honoris causa" at University of New South Wales]
* [http://www.manningclark.org.au/papers/MCLecture-2006.html 5 R's for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic] , The SeventhManning Clark Lecture, Presented at theNational Library of Australia , 2 March 2006
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