Ben Cuimermara Taylor

Early life

Achievements

• Member of the Order of Australia, 2013: For significant service to the Indigenous community of Western Australia through contributions to a range of social justice and humanitarian rights issues.
• Involved in achieving recognition of Native Title for the Noongar people in south west Western Australia, 2006;
• Co-Chair, Deaths in Custody Watch Committee , 2009-2010;
• Board Member; Justice Reinvestment Ambassador; Life Member, 2009.
• Current DICWC Board Representative, Community Justice Coalition of Western Australia.
• Committee Member, HALO Leadership Development Agency, since 2011
• Pastoral Care Assistant to the Chaplain, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, 1981-1999; providing pastoral care at numerous hospitals including Royal Perth Hospital, Shenton Park Hospital, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital and the King Edward Memorial Hospital.
• Committee Member, Kulilla Aboriginal Alcohol Service, 1979; helped to establish the Kulilla Aboriginal and Alcohol Service and the Wandering Mission Dry Out Centre.
• Counsellor, Alcoholics Anonymous.
• Member, Aboriginal Reference Group, Anglicare WA, since 2008.
• Current Adviser on Noongar protocols to the Anglican Archbishop of Perth.
• Noongar Elder Representative, Western Australian Coalition Against Racism, 2001.
• Noongar Elder Representative with Aboriginal Masters students, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University of Technology, on a study tour to Fondu Lac Reservation, Minnesota and the Redcliffe Reservation, Wisconsin, USA, 2002.
• Member, Noongar Council of Elders, 1999.
• Awards/recognition include: Western Australian Ambassador, White Ribbon Day, 2011.