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Patricia June "Pat" O'Shane, (born 19 June 1941 in , Queensland), an Indigenous Australian of the Kunjandji clan of the Yalangi people, a teacher, barrister, public servant, jurist and Aboriginal activist, was Australia's first Aboriginal magistrate,〔 serving the Local Court in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia between 1986 until her retirement in 2013. O'Shane was also the first Aboriginal teacher in Queensland; the first Aboriginal to earn a law degree; the first Aboriginal barrister; and the first woman and Indigenous person to be the head of a government department in Australia. ==Biography== O'Shane's mother moved the family from Mossman to Cairns to enable her children to receive a good education. O'Shane ended up the only Indigenous Australian child in her age group graduating from her high school and gained a scholarship and studied at Teachers' College and the University of Queensland, before teaching at Cairns High School for eight years. When her mother died she went into a deep depression and was hospitalised.〔 On an Aboriginal Study Grant, O'Shane studied law at the University of New South Wales, graduated in 1976, and was admitted to the New South Wales bar.〔 She began practicing law as a barrister with the Aboriginal Legal Service in Sydney and then in Central Australia, O'Shane was a former head of the New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs before her appointment as a magistrate in 1986.〔 She was the Chancellor of the University of New England between 1994 and 2003. In 2013 Pat O'Shane was awarded a Deadly Award for lifetime achievement in leadership, being praised as a woman who "blazed a path for others to follow . . . she is a genuine and inspiring role model for others". Along with fellow Deadly 2013 winner Archie Roach, she used the win to call for an end to the Northern Territory Intervention. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat O'Shane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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