Council
The Council consists of nine members, four elected by the Institute's membership and five appointed by the Minister. One person appointed by the Minister is a Torres Strait Islander, four other people appointed by the Minister are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders.
Current AIATSIS Council Chairperson:
- Professor Mick Dodson, AM, is a member of the Yawuru peoples the traditional Aboriginal owners in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia.
The first Aboriginal Chairperson of AIATSIS Council:
- Mr Ken Colbung, AM, MBE a Nyoongar elder from WA.
The first Aboriginal woman to be Chairperson of AIATSIS Council:
- Professor Marcia Langton, OA, a descendant of the Wiradjuri and Bidjara nations.
Read more about this topic: Australian Institute Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Studies
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“There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree
With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild
Twelve ragged men, the council of charity
Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
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Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
And left them both, more in himself content.
Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
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