Senator Cox' Maiden Speech

Senator Dorinda Cox

About the
Speech

In this speech, Cox reflects on the Redfern address and her own position as a female and Aboriginal senator. She calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women. She points to systemic issues in our justice systems and systemic legacies of settler colonialism.
  • Indigenous Australia
SenatorDorindaCox

B. 1976-05-25

Dorinda Cox is a Yamatji-Noongar woman with a strong record of working for social justice in her community; locally, globally and nationally. Dorinda has over 20 years' experience working in government and non-government sectors and has made significant contributions to policy and advocacy in the areas of domestic violence, child protection and Aboriginal justice. She worked in the non-government and government sectors and was an Australian Government representative on several delegations on gender equality at the United Nations Commission for the Status of Women in New York at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation in Peru and also UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in Thailand. Dorinda also chaired the National Sexual Assault Services Board after participating in the first National Action Plan for Violence against Women and Children under the Rudd Government.