Dr Jackie Huggins is Bidjara and Birri-Gubba Juru from central and north Queensland. She is an Historian and Author, and has made her career, over four decades, in reconciliation and many other social justice initiatives.
Dr Huggins is a former Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia, Member of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Co-Chair of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, and Commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry Into The Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families (The Stolen Generation).
Dr Huggins’ most recent appointment has been to the Co-Chair Treaty Advancement Committee, which will lead all Queenslanders on to the next stage of establishing a Treaty process.
She has devoted her life to ensuring a just and equitable outcome for her people and to reconcile a just and fair Australia in which we all enjoy the benefits.