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Patrick Dodson

Senator Patrick Dodson is shadow assistant minister for Indigenous affairs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and senator for Western Australia.


July 2020

  • John Ah Kit at a horse skills training facility at Lajamanu in the Northern Territory in 2002

    'My personal light on the hill': Pat Dodson's eulogy to John Ah Kit

    Patrick Dodson
    John Ah Kit, the first Aboriginal minister in the Northern Territory parliament has died. This is a shortened version of Labor senator Pat Dodson’s tribute to him

March 2018

  • A view of cars on the M5 freeway from a blimp on April 28, 2016 in Sydney, Australia.

    Our constitution is like a set of road rules. It's time to tweak those rules again

    Patrick Dodson and Graham Perrett
    Most of our symbols sit outside the constitution, and land is the biggest one. Caring for country should be part of this nation’s birth certificate

September 2017

  • BW image of Senator Patrick Dodson, shadow assistant minister for Indigenous affairs and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and Senator for Western Australia.

    Indigenous communities need to be part of the solution. Top-down measures don’t work

    Patrick Dodson
    For too long, Indigenous peoples have had to endure policies dreamed up by authorities who don’t themselves have to suffer the consequences
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