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	Media release Wednesday 31 January 2007 Frank Brennan to speak at law service The 2007 Law Term Service will be held this Friday 2nd February at 11am at Saint David's Cathedral, Hobart. It will be a service with a difference. Hobart's new Anglican Dean has invited the Catholic Archbishop, Dr Adrian Doyle, to lead the service. Dr Stoddart, himself a lawyer, is enthusiastic and said, 'This year's service has a distinctly Catholic flavour with the distinguished priest, humanitarian and academic The Reverend Professor Frank Brennan bringing the message to the legal profession. I am pleased that Archbishop Doyle, with St Mary's Administrator Father Brian Nichols, will lead much of the liturgy.' Dr Stoddart went on to say, 'I have heard and read a good deal of Father Brennan.' 'I am looking forward to hearing him in person and hope believers and doubters alike will come to Saint David's on this occasion.' Contact: Dr Lindsay Stoddart - 0422 588 298 Biography: Frank Brennan SJ AO, a Jesuit priest and lawyer, is Professor of Law in the Institute of Legal Studies, at the Australian Catholic University and an adjunct fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU. He has also been Director of Uniya Jesuit Social Justice Centre in Sydney. He is the son of Sir Gerard Brennan, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. He is an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for services to Aboriginal Australians (1995). With Pat Dodson he shared the inaugural ACFOA Human Rights Award (1996). His contact and involvement with Aboriginal Australians began early in his priestly ministry. In 1975 he worked in the inner Sydney parish of Redfern with priest activist Fr Ted Kennedy, where he also met and worked with Mum (Shirl) Smith among others who were founding Indigenous Australian legal, health and political initiatives. In 1997, he was Rapporteur at the Australian Reconciliation Convention. In 1998 he was named a Living National Treasure during his involvement in the Wik debate and was appointed an Ambassador for Reconciliation by the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. In 2001 - 02 he spent 18 months in East Timor as Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service and was awarded the Humanitarian Overseas Service Medal for that work. He also received the Australian Centenary Medal for refugee and human rights work in the Asia Pacific. He has written extensively on Aboriginal Land Rights and his books on civil liberties include 'Too Much Order With Too Little Law' and 'Legislating Liberty' and 'Tampering with Asylum'. During the 1998 Wik debate, Paul Keating dubbed him the meddling priest! Media Officer - Rev. Stephen Carnaby 0417 343 710 Read previous media releases.