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Kate Auty is the co-odinating magistrate for north east Victoria and it was at the Sheppartone Court where the first Koori Court was established in 2002. She has previously worked for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. She w-as employed as senior solicitor to the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in Victoria and Tasmania, and as solicitor to Commissioner Patrick Dodson in the compilation of the Western Australian Underlying Issues report for that Royal Commission. She has worked as project manager, co-ordinator and lecturer to the Deakin University Institute of Koorie Education in graduate studies into environment and heritage management and interpretation. Prior to being appointed a Victorian magistrate in 1999 she was called to the Victorian Bar where she had a practice in native title, criminal and administrative law. Additional to undergraduate degrees in History (honours) and Law, she holds a Masters of Environmental Science and a Doctorate in Law and Legal Studies. Sandy Toussaint is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at The University of Western Australia. She has worked extensively with Australian Indigenous communities, especially in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Formerly a senior research Officer on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, her publications include editor of Crossing Boundaries: cultural, legal, historical and practice issues in native title (MUP, 2004), co-editor of Applied Anthropology in Australasia (UWAP, 1999), and author of Phyllis Kaberry and me: anthropology, history and Aboriginal Australia (MUP, 1999). A member of the World Anthropologies Network, she was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women at Oxford University in 1997, and is an Adjunct Researcher with the Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l'Oceanie, at the University of Provence in Marseille.

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