Dr. Hannah McGlade

WA Director

Dr. Hannah McGlade is an experienced legal academic and practitioner with special interest in Indigenous human rights. Her career has focused on justice for Aboriginal people, race discrimination law and practice, Aboriginal women and children, family violence and sexual assault.

My Ph.D thesis received the Stanner Award for Excellence in Aboriginal research and was published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 2012: 'Our Greatest Challenge, Aboriginal Children and Human Rights.’ She works at Curtin Law School as an Associate Professor.

In 2016, she was appointed the Senior Indigenous Fellow at the Office of the High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, and in 2020 - 2026 was appointed to the UN Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues.

Dr. McGlade has led the establishment of Aboriginal family legal services in Perth and WA and advocated successfully before UN treaty bodies for a separated national action plan on violence to Aboriginal women before being appointed to the Aboriginal advisory committee overseeing the plan launched in 2026.