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Mr Patrick Dodson

Born in 1948, Patrick Dodson became Australia's first ordained Aboriginal Catholic priest but has since left the priesthood. In this challenging role he sought to balance and blend Catholicism and Aboriginal spiritual belief.

Finding ways to bridge Aboriginal and European-Australian cultures also motivated Mr Dodson’s subsequent involvement in a range of significant activities, including indigenous land rights, the Reconciliation movement and his work as a commissioner on the Inquiry into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Dodson resigned from his founding chairmanship of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in 1977 and currently sits as the founding Chair of the Lingari Foundation.