Mick Gooda

Gooda in 2015

Mick Gooda is an Australian public servant who served as the Australian Human Rights Commission's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner from 2009 to 2016.[1][2] He is an indigenous Australian of the Gangulu people in Central Queensland.[3][4][5]

Gooda was previously the Chief Executive Officer of the Aboriginal Health Cooperative Research Centre.[6] He was also a long-serving officer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.[5]

In 2016, Gooda and Margaret White were appointed as co-Commissioners for the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Australian Human Rights Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner". Australian Human Rights Commission. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Mick Gooda to be the new Social Justice Commissioner". Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet. Edith Cowan University. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Mr Mick Gooda". National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. Australian National University. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Five questions to Mick Gooda: on self-determination and human rights". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 6 December 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2014.
  5. 1 2 Schubert, Misha (15 December 2009). "Mick Gooda wins top indigenous affairs post". The Age. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Mick Gooda, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner". Woman's Day (Australian magazine). Bauer Media Group. 23 January 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "Gooda, White drafted in after royal commissioner stands down". 1 August 2016.
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