Larissa Behrendt

Prof. Larissa Behrendt is a Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman. She is Distinguished Professor and Laureate Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT and NSW as a barrister. She has a LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School. Larissa won the 2018 Australian Directors Guild Award for best Direction of a Documentary Film for After the Apology and the 2020 AACTA for Best Direction in Factual Television for her documentary, Maralinga Tjarutja. Larissa is also an award-winning novelist. She won the 2002 David Uniapon Award and a 2005 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for her novel Home. Her second novel, Legacy, won a Victorian Premiers Literary Award. Her most recent novel, After Story (2021, UQP), won the 2022 Voss Literary prize. Larissa was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. She was awarded an Order of Australia in 2020 for her work in Indigenous education, the law, and the arts. Larissa received the Human Rights Medal 2021 from the Australian Human Rights Commission. She is the host of Speaking Out on ABC Radio.