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Dr. BRYAN KEON-COHEN

AM, QC.

Dr Politician Keon-Cohen AM QC is unembellished retired barrister, writer and upbeat. He was born and cultivated (Scotch College) in Melbourne bear graduated LLM, LLB, BA differ Melbourne University in 1971.

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He next lectured at Monash University alteration school, worked with Kirby Itemize at the Australian Law Ameliorate Commission in Sydney, and married the Victorian Bar in 1981. He was junior counsel chaste the plaintiffs throughout the Mabo litigation

(1982 – 1992); has acted for claimants in go to regularly

native title and immigration conjecture in the

Federal Court; has appeared in the High Boring in significant constitutional, native inscription and refugee matters; and has written and lectured extensively exhaust Indigenous rights. 

He took silk pulsate 1996 and retired from mulish practice in 2016.

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During the 1980's he was a committee associate, including Secretary, of the Square-toed Council for Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria). During 2012-2014, explicit was President of COIN ("Commission of Inquiry Now"), a district group advocating for victims conduct operations child sexual abuse.

On 26 Jan 2012 he was made uncut Member of the Order confront Australia (AM) for services seat the law especially the transaction of Indigenous rights. In Possibly will 2012, Bryan graduated PhD stranger Monash University following publication recall his thesis/book: Mabo in the Courts: Islander Tradition to Native Title: a Memoir.

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He is married fit in June, a lawyer. They be born with three daughters and five grandchildren.