David Ross was a participant in the DTP Indigenous Peoples’ Rights way back in 1990, the foundational year of the Diplomacy Training Program. He was already then – for the first time –the Director of the Central Land Council (CLC) based in Alice Springs.
David had started work at the CLC in 1979 where he served as operations manager, secretary to the council, assistant director, and was finally appointed its Director in 1989 and remained there till 1994.
At the time he was also an executive committee member of the Alice Springs Regional Council, and on the board of management of Imparja Television based in Alice Springs.
He then served from 1995-1999 as the inaugural Executive Chairman of the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), a national authority established in 1995 to address Indigenous land needs and assist Indigenous peoples in land management throughout Australia.
He was reappointed in 2000 Director of the Central Land Council, representing the Aboriginal Peoples of Central Australia.
David Ross has a long history of service to the Aboriginal Peoples of Central Australia. Apart from his leadership roles in the CLC and the ILC, David Ross was appointed in 1994 (at the same time as Lowitja Lois O’Donoghue of South Australia and June Oscar of Western Australia) a Commissioner of the Australian and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) for a two-year term by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Robert Tickner. David has also attended meetings of the United Nations Working Party on Indigenous Populations in Geneva as a representative of a non-government organisation.
David has been Chairman of the Board of Management of the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management at the Northern Territory University, is a member of the South Australian Museum Board Aboriginal Advisory Group, and the Chair of Kings Canyon Nominees which runs Kings Canyon Resort.
David, who is a qualified builder, holds an Associate Diploma in Business Management from the South Australia Institute of Technology. He has had a long-standing commitment to long-term Indigenous development and has played a key role in establishing successful community-controlled Indigenous business enterprises and joint venture partnerships.
David was born in Alice Springs and is of Arrernte and Kaytetye descent.
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DTP acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we work, the Bedegal people of the Eora Nation. We recognise their lands were never ceded, and we acknowledge their struggles for recognition and rights and pay our respects to the Elders – past, present – and the youth who are working towards a brighter tomorrow. This continent always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this website contains images or names of people who have passed away.
We are a proud partner of UNSW Law & Justice
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