Michael Ghillar Anderson is an Aboriginal rights activist, and an Elder to the United Nations on First Nations affairs. He is the leader of the Euahlayi tribe of 3,000 people living in north-western New South Wales, and Native Title claimant to their traditional lands on their behalf. He was one of the four men who drove to Canberra and set up the Aboriginal Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House in 1972. As Diplomatic Human Rights Envoy for the Whitlam Government, Michael was part of the Australian Diplomatic group that attended different political hotspots around the world on Human Rights violations of First Nations Peoples. In 1979 Michael was appointed to the Office of the Public Prosecutions in criminal law as an instructing officer (the equivalent of a solicitor) in New South Wales. He has lectured in Aboriginal studies and Aboriginal politics at several Australian universities and is the National Convenor of a new political movement in Australia that is promoting worldwide the continuing sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.

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