Hannah McGlade

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Hannah McGlade
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Born (1969-06-06) 6 June 1969 (age 52)[1]
Perth, Western Australia[2]
Academic background
Alma materMurdoch University (LL.B., LL.M.)
Curtin University (PhD)[2]
ThesisAboriginal child sexual assault (CSA) and the criminal justice system: the last frontier[3] (2010)
Doctoral advisorLinda Briskman[2]
Academic work
DisciplineIndigenous Australian studies
Sub-disciplineIndigenous human rights
Indigenous law
Racial discrimination law
InstitutionsCurtin University
Member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
for the Pacific
Assumed office
1 January 2020

Hannah McGlade CF (born 6 June 1969) is an Australian academic, human rights advocate and lawyer. She is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation and is currently an Associate Professor at Curtin University. She was Senior Indigenous Fellow at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2016 and has been a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues since 2020.

Personal life[]

McGlade was born in 1969 in Perth, Western Australia.[1][2] She is a Kurin Minang Noongar woman of the Bibulman nation, an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands are located on the southwestern coast of Western Australia.[4]

Academic career[]

At Murdoch University, McGlade completed a Bachelor of Laws in 1995 and a Master of Laws in 2001. In 2011 she received her Doctor of Philosophy for her thesis, "Aboriginal child sexual assault (CSA) and the criminal justice system: the last frontier".[2][3] The thesis won the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies' Stanner Award, which is "presented biennially to the best academic manuscript submitted by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author".[5] Due to this win, the thesis was published as a book in 2012 with the title Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal children and human rights.[2]

In 2016, she was appointed Senior Indigenous Research Fellow at Curtin, and is currently an Associate Professor at Curtin Law School.[6] In 2020, she received a Churchill Fellowship to research the Indigenous Sámi Parliaments of Finland, Norway and Sweden.[7]

Advocacy[]

McGlade has often acted as an advocate for Indigenous Australians, especially focussing on issues relating to law, sexual assault, women's justice and systemic discrimination.[8][9]

In 2002, she brought then-federal senator Ross Lightfoot to court for racial discrimination after he commented that Aboriginal Australians were "the most primitive race on earth". She was successful, and Lightfoot was charged with breaching the Racial Discrimination Act.[10][11][12]

In 2016 McGlade began campaigning for a stand-alone national action plan to address violence against women, and her advocacy was successful before a number of UN treaty bodies and expert mechanisms. In 2020 she called for a Council on Violence Against Aboriginal Women and Children with the national body Our Watch resulting in the establishment of the first such Council in 2021.[citation needed]

McGlade has been the recipient of the WA NAIDOC Outstanding Achievement Award in 2010 and 2020 for her work in supporting members of the Stolen Generations and repatriating the former Sister Kate's Children's Home lands for a healing centre, and establishing Noongar Radio 100.9.[citation needed]

Her advocacy for Aboriginal women and children over decades led to the establishment of the first service in Perth for victims, named Djinda. She was later the first CEO of the newly established Aboriginal Family Law Services.[citation needed]

She has also spoken out strongly against the destruction of a sacred site at Juukan Gorge which occurred in 2020, claiming that "governments and mining companies are causing harm to land" and that "now more than ever we should listen to Aboriginal people who want to protect land and culture."[13] While a cultural heritage bill was proposed in Western Australian Parliament in 2021 which attempted to prevent such situations in the future, McGlade rejected its legitimacy and claimed Indigenous people had not been sufficiently consulted on the issue. With four other Indigenous people, she asked the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to review the bill, claiming it contradicted Australia's international obligations regarding racial discrimination.[14]

Also in 2021, she voiced concerns about Bruce Pascoe's book Dark Emu, claiming it was "ideological and subjective", "not very truthful or accurate" and "misleading and offensive to Aboriginal people and culture".[15]

As of December 2021, she is a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues representing the Pacific, having commenced the role in 2020.[16]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "McGlade, Hannah, 1969-". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Henningham, Nikki (30 May 2016). "Hannah McGlade". Canberra: Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b McGlade, Hannah (January 2012). Our Greatest Challenge: Aboriginal children and human rights. Aboriginal Studies Press. p. xvii. ISBN 9781922059116.
  4. ^ "Hannah McGlade on Reconciliation". The Piddlington Society. 29 May 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Stanner Award". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Dr Hannah McGlade". Curtin University. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  7. ^ Stringfellow, Rachel (17 December 2020). "Dr Hannah McGlade to research Sámi Parliament model". National Indigenous Times. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  8. ^ Hocking, Rachael (20 March 2021). "'We have to bear witness': Dr Hannah McGlade on the fight for First Nations justice". NITV. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  9. ^ Young, Evan (31 March 2021). "After new allegations, Indigenous legal expert says racial profiling by police is still 'very common'". SBS News. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  10. ^ Schultz, Amber (30 April 2021). "How being an 'angry black woman' led Hannah McGlade to successfully sue the Human Rights Commission". Crikey. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  11. ^ "Senator to face court over `primitive race' insult". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 June 2002. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  12. ^ "WA Liberal Senator breaches Racial Discrimination Act". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 November 2002. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  13. ^ McGlade, Hannah (14 May 2021). "A year after the Juukan Gorge blasts, it's time to listen to Aboriginal people who want to protect land and culture". ABC News. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  14. ^ Shine, Rhiannon (17 November 2021). "New Aboriginal cultural heritage laws aimed at avoiding another Juukan Gorge disaster". ABC News. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  15. ^ Taylor, Paige (23 June 2021). "Darker issues at play over Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu". The Australian. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  16. ^ "The Indigenous World 2021: UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)". International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.

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