Dr. Hannah McGlade
National NAIDOC Person Award Category
Dr. Hannah McGlade is from the Minang people and is a leading Aboriginal human rights law expert. She is an outstanding advocate for justice for Aboriginal people, especially concerning race discrimination and Aboriginal women and children’s issues.
Her work has included establishing family violence legal services for Aboriginal women and children in Perth and WA and advocating internationally for the separate national action plan on violence against Aboriginal women.
She was the Senior Indigenous Fellow at the UN Office of the High Commission on Human Rights (2016), and a member of the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues (2019-2025).