2004 NATIONAL MEDIATION CONFERENCE

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SPEAKERS

Dr Peter Toyne, MLA
Minister for Justice & Attorney General

Dr Peter Toyne MLA has been a member of the legislative assembly since 1996. When
the Labor party came to government in 2001 Dr Toyne formed part of the Ministry as
Attorney General of the Northern Territory.

Prior to his political career Dr Toyne was principal of Yuendumu Community Education 
Centre which was responsible for all education programs from pre-school to adult
education, promoting the process of Aboriginalisation and resulting in Aboriginal teachers
 joining the staff. 

 From 1990 to 1994 he was a Consultant to Government and other agencies in a 
variety of areas where he is recognised as having developed expertise including training, 
community development, telecommunications, water supply, road and other infrastructure 
development. Dr Toyne completed his Ph D at the la Trobe University in 2000.

As Attorney General he has been instrumental in promoting ADR and in 2003 opened 
the Northern Territory Justice and Community Centre.

The Hon. John von Doussa 
President Human Rights & Equal 
Opportunities Commission

The Hon. John von Doussa was appointed President of the Human Rights and Equal
Opportunity Commission on 1 May 2003 for a five year term.  At the time of his        
appointment he was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, an appointment  he had
held since 1988. He was also the President of the Australia Competition Tribunal, a 
Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, an Additional Judge  
               
of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, and a Judge of the Industrial 
Relations Court of Australia. From 1992 until shortly before his appointment he was also 
a part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission. From 1986 to 1988 
he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.

Before his appointment as a Judge he was a Queens Counsel practicing mainly in South 
Australia, and had served terms as the President of the Law Society of SouthAustralia, 
 and Vice-President of the Law Council of Australia.          
 
In South Australia he had a close interest in the organisation and provision of practical 
legal training for newly qualified graduates in law. At different times he was the chair
of advisory committees for the graduate diploma courses in legal  practice conducted by
University of South Australia and by the Law Society of South Australia. In 1996 
he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University of South Australia in recognition
of that involvement. He received a Centenary Medal in 2003.                

In 1993 he sat as an Acting Judge in the Supreme Court of Vanuatu. In 1997 he became 
a member of the Court of Appeal of Vanuatu. In 2003 he was appointed a non-resident
member of the Supreme Court of Fiji. He continues to hold these appointments.

Rev. Dr. Djiniyini Gondarra AOM 
Former member Council Aboriginal 
Reconciliation 

Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM has served a long career in theMethodist and Uniting 
Churches. Ordained in 1976, he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 1985.

He has held the positions of Director, Reconciliation Australia Limited, Chief Executive
Officer Aboriginal Resource and Development Services Inc. & Northern Regional Council
of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress.

Rev Djiniyini is currently a member of the Australian Indigenous Cultural Network
Steering Committee, Director of Yirrkala Business Enterprises and has
been Chairman of the Arnhem Land Progress Association Inc since 1993.

-  Lucie Alliare - Director General Conflict Management Program, Department of 
    National Defence, Canadian Forces of Canada

-  Nicole Charron-Poggioli - Director Intervention Services, Department of 
   National Defence, Canadian Forces of Canada 

- Prof Laurence Boulle - Former Chair, National ADR Advisory Council 

- Prof Michael (Mick) Dodson AM - AIATSIS 

- Prof Peter Yu - Lingiari Foundation

- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nadja Alexander - Professor of Dispute Resolution Australian 
  Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland (UQ).

- Professor Tania Sourdin BA, LLB, GDLP, LLM, PhD - Professor in Law and             
  Dispute Resolution La Trobe University, Director Conflict Resolution Research 
  Centre 

- Dr Tom Fisher - La Trobe University

- Assoc. Prof. Dr Tom Altobelli - University Western Sydney

- Mr Kurt Noble - Queensland of Department of Justice 

- Captain Helen Marks CSM RAN - Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution              
  and Conflict Management, Australian Defence Organisation

- Sue Duncombe & Alan Ogg - Directors, ADR-plus

- Assoc Prof Craig Jones - Director of Native Title Studies Center,
  James Cook University