Aunty Ali Golding and Chief Justice Spigelman

Description

James Jacob Spigelman (1946 - ), who served as Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1998 to 2011, pictured alongside Aunty Ali Golding, a grassroots Indigenous leader. Spigelman, who since his time as Chief Justice has sat on multiple Courts including in Fiji and Hong Kong, has helped to foster close relationships between the Australian judiciary and other judiciaries.

Aunty Ali Golding, a Biripi woman who grew up on an Aboriginal mission outside Taree, became one of the first Aboriginal education assistants at Cleveland High School in Queensland in the 1980s, and graduated from Nungaliya College in Darwin with a Diploma of Theology in 2004. She has made important contributions to national and international forums, and has convened with many dignitaries to deepen public understanding of Indigenous heritage and culture. She was appointed inaugural Elder in Residence in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of NSW in 2011, helping to support the training of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander doctors.

Identification

Artist

Margaret Olah

Medium

Print on chromaluxe

Date

1999

Collection

Portraiture