Australia’s most senior Aboriginal barrister Tony McAvoy is today expected to be appointed the role of Acting Treaty Commissioner in the Northern Territory.
Mr McAvoy who is a Wirdi man from central Queensland, will take the role which has been vacant since the middle of the year, when Mick Dodson resigned following allegations he verbally abused a woman.
McAvoy has extensive experience providing legal advice on treaty matters, and was Australia’s first Indigenous senior counsel.