Helen Milroy
Author & Illustrator of Children’s Fiction
based in WA
Helen Milroy AM
Helen Milroy is a Palyku woman whose homelands are in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Helen is Australia’s first Indigenous doctor and currently works asProfessor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Western Australia. Helen is also the Associate Dean Indigenous for the UWA School of Medicineand Co-director of the Embrace and Healing Families, Healing Kids Teams at the Kids Research Institute. Helen is the Chair of the Gayaa Dhuwi Proud Spirit Australia organisation and a board member of Beyond Blue.
In 2020, Helen was the joint winner of the Australian Mental Health Prize and named the WA Australian of the Year for 2021.Helen was formerly a Commissioner with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse for 5 years as well as with the National Mental Health Commission and the AFL.
Helen is also an artist and published author and illustrator of children’s books and has been shortlisted for several children’s literature awards.
Recent book titles include Dingo’s Dream, Beach Buddies and Cloudmaker.
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This author holds a Working with Children Check (WWCC) and Police Check.
