Profile:
Current research area:
Indigenous Identity
Indigenous Governance
Mark McMillan is a Wiradjuri man from Trangie in central NSW. He received his undergraduate law degree from the ANU and has studied First Nations legal issues at the University of British Columbia. He has been admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
Mark has worked with ATSIC in a variety of areas including the Legal Services Division as a law clerk. Other areas of ATSIC in which Mark has worked includes the Regional Support Section, where he developed and implemented a procedures manual for the Regional Services Unit staff, as well as with the Broome Regional Office where he provided legal, policy and administrative support to the regional council. In 2001 Mark successfully completed the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre Certificate Course.
Since joining Ngiya in 2002 Mark has worked on a number of research projects including as an editor for Balayi Culture, Law and Colonialism and the Journal of Indigenous Policy. During 2002 he conducted research for Ngyia, in association with Assoc. Prof. Chris Cuneen, for the preparation of a discussion paper on the proposed development of an Aboriginal Justice Plan in New South Wales. During 2003 he worked with Prof. Larissa Behrendt to prepare advice for the newly elected ATSIC Board of Commissioners on their roles and responsibilities under the ATSIC Act, and assisted with providing the ATSIC CEO with advice and technical support for their submission to the ATSIC Review. Mark has recently completed a Masters of Law and Policy degree at the University of Arizona and is presently enrolled to undertake his SJD at UTS.
Publications:
March 2002 - Native Title Research Unit of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies relating to the British Columbia Treaty Process.
September 2002 - Book Review - New South Wales Law Society Journal - Review of "The Marshall Decision and Native Rights" by Ken Coates;
March 2005 - Two articles in Balayi, Law, Culture and Colonialism.
