CDU Law Staff Profile

Michael O'Donnell

• Research interests
• Professional memberships
• Publications

Research Interests

Michael has extensive experience in Indigenous land issues in Australia including as a former Principal Legal Officer of the Kimberley Land Council during the negotiation of the original Native Title Act in 1992, Legal Adviser to the National Indigenous Working Group on Native Title during the Wik Amendments to the Native Title Act in 1986 and 1987 and adviser to the Chair of ATSIC with respect to the Final Report of the Reconciliation Council to the Prime Minister and Parliament of Australia. He has recently given a series of seminars on the NT Aboriginal Land Rights Act. He teaches in the areas of Indigenous legal issues, land rights, native title and constitutional and criminal law.

Professional Memberships

• Barrister of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory
• Legal Practitioners Admission Board (NT)
• Former member of the Community Living Areas Tribunal (NT)
• Accredited Mediator (LEADR)

Publications

"The Right to Negotiate in Western Australia - Alternative Schemes in accordance with the Native Title Amendment Act,1998" in Native Title in the New Millenium-Representatives Bodies Legal Conference 16-20 April 2000 Melb, Vic. ed. Bryan Keon Cohen AIATSIS ISBN 0 8 5575 3765

Briefing Paper for the Water Rights Project by the Lingiari Foundation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission February 2002 (.pdf)