Mick Gooda is an

Aboriginal Australian Aboriginal Australians are the various indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, excluding the ethnically distinct people of the Torres Strait Islands. Humans first migrated to Australia 50,000 to 65,000 year ...

public servant. He has particularly served as the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the

Australian Human Rights Commission The Australian Human Rights Commission is the national human rights institution of the Commonwealth of Australia, established in 1986 as the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and renamed in 2008. It is a statutory body fu ...

from 2009 to 2016 and as Co-Commissioner of the

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from 2016 to 2017. He is a descendant of the

Gangulu The Gangulu people, also written Kangulu, Kaangooloo, Ghungalu and other variations, are an Aboriginal Australian people from the Mount Morgan area in Queensland, Australia. Name At least one variant name for the Kangulu, ''Kaangooloo'', was ...

people of Central Queensland.

Career

Gooda was previously the

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of the Aboriginal Health Cooperative Research Centre. He was also a long-serving officer with the

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1990–2005) was the Australian Government body through which Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders were formally involved in the processes of government affecting thei ...

. He was the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the

from 2009 to 2016. In 2016, Gooda and Margaret White were appointed as co-Commissioners for the

. Gooda was appointed as a member of the Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians by Prime Minister

Julia Gillard Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013. She held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously served as the ...

in 2010 and appointed to the Referendum Council in 2015 by Prime Minister

Malcolm Turnbull Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian former politician and businessman who served as the 29th prime minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He held office as Liberal Party of Australia, leader of the Liberal Party an ...

. In 2015 he was appointed the chair of the Queensland Government Stolen Wages Reparations Taskforce. In 2018 he was appointed the inaugural First Nations Housing Advisor to the

Queensland Government The Queensland Government is the state government of Queensland, Australia, a Parliament, parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Government is formed by the party or coalition that has gained a majority in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, ...

.Mick Gooda to be Queensland’s First Nations housing advisor as Government steps in to protect jobs in remote communities
Queensland Government Media Statement In 2019 he was appointed to the Eminent Panel for the Queensland Government's Indigenous treaty-making process. In November 2019, it was announced that Gooda would be one of 20 members of the Senior Advisory Group to help co-design the Indigenous voice to government set up by

Ken Wyatt Kenneth George Wyatt (born 4 August 1952) is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives (Australia), House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022, representing the Division of Hasluck for the Liberal Party of ...

, the Minister for Indigenous Australians. The group is co-chaired by Wyatt, Marcia Langton and Tom Calma.

References

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