Eddie Cubillo, PhD, is an Aboriginal man of Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente descent with strong family links into urban and rural areas of Australia’s Northern Territory. Before gaining his PhD from the University of Technology of Sydney, he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Before ATSIC was disbanded in 2005, he was elected as Chair to its Yilli Rreung Regional Council for the Darwin region. In 2010, he was appointed the Anti-discrimination Commissioner of the Northern Territory and later became Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. He is a former Chair of NAAJA, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, and the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee, and worked on the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory in 2017. He was named the 2016 National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year and was a United Nations Indigenous Fellow in Geneva in 2016. At the University of Melbourne, he is presently Director of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub in the Melbourne Law School and a Leader, alongside Shawanna Andrews, of the Health and Justice Theme in the Indigenous Knowledge Institute.
Producer: Patrick Telfer. Line Producer: Samuel Curkpatrick. Music composed and performed by: Cameron Deyell and Reuben Lewis. Image credit: Celeste de Clario. Director: Aaron Corn. Executive Producer: Marcia Langton.
Eddie Cubillo, PhD, is an Aboriginal man of Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente descent with strong family links into urban and rural areas of Australia’s Northern Territory. Before gaining his PhD from the University of Technology of Sydney, he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory. Before ATSIC was disbanded in 2005, he was elected as Chair to its Yilli Rreung Regional Council for the Darwin region. In 2010, he was appointed the Anti-discrimination Commissioner of the Northern Territory and later became Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service. He is a former Chair of NAAJA, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, and the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee, and worked on the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory in 2017. He was named the 2016 National Indigenous Legal Professional of the Year and was a United Nations Indigenous Fellow in Geneva in 2016. At the University of Melbourne, he is presently Director of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub in the Melbourne Law School and a Leader, alongside Shawanna Andrews, of the Health and Justice Theme in the Indigenous Knowledge Institute.
Producer: Patrick Telfer. Line Producer: Samuel Curkpatrick. Music composed and performed by: Cameron Deyell and Reuben Lewis. Image credit: Celeste de Clario. Director: Aaron Corn. Executive Producer: Marcia Langton.