Patrick Dodson

Patrick Lionel Djargun Dodson is a Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, the former chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, a former Commissioner into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, former Roman Catholic priest and a Senator for Western Australia. He was the winner of the 2008 Sydney Peace Prize the 2009 John Curtin Medallist. His brother is Mick Dodson, also a national Indigenous Australian leader.

Dodson was born onJanuary 1948 in Broome. His father, Snowy Dodson, was IrishAustralian and his mother, Patricia, was indigenous Australian. The family moved to Katherine in the Northern Territory when Pat was two, to escape Western Australian laws about mixedrace families.

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