Profile: Robynne Quiggin

 

Robynne Quiggin BA, LLB, Graduate Diploma in Practical Legal Training, Diploma in Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property – WIPO 2003 Robynne is principal solicitor and consultant at Vincent-Quiggin Legal & Consulting Services. She is descended from the Wiradjuri people of central western NSW.

Robynne has worked in a number of legal areas, including Indigenous intellectual and cultural property, native title, Indigenous human rights and other social justice issues.

Robynne also lecturers at a number of Sydney based Universities including Law Faculty of the University of Technology, Sydney, Warawara Department of Indigenous Studies at Macquarie University, and the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales.  She has worked previously as a policy office for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and as a researcher at Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at UTS.

Robynne is a member of the recently appointed Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) and the National Indigenous Consumer Strategy Implementation Reference Group. She is also a member of the Indigenous Financial Services Network hosted by Reconciliation Australia.

Robynne is currently a board member of Gadigal Information Services (incorporating Koori Radio) and the Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN). She is also on the Editorial Board of the Indigenous Law Bulletin, Balayi Culture, Law and Colonialism Editorial Board, Journal of Indigenous Social Policy and is a member of the National Indigenous Arts Reference group of the Australia Council for the Arts.