Patrick Dodson is a Yawuru man from Broome in Western Australia. He has served as Director of the Central and Kimberley Land Councils, a Commissioner in the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the inaugural Chair of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Co-Chair of the Expert Panel for Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians and Co-Chair of the National Referendum Council. He entered Federal Parliament in 2016 as Senator for Western Australia and is Shadow Assistant Minister for Reconciliation and Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians.