Muriel Bamblett

Muriel Pauline Bamblett is a Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung, Boon Wurrung Elder and advocate for Aboriginal child welfare in Victoria and Australia.

Career Bamblett has been the chief executive of Victorian Aboriginal Child and Community Agency (VACCA), since 1999.

Bamblett is a member of the Victorian Treaty Elders' Voice Group; Aboriginal Family Violence Steering Committee; Victorian Children's Council; Aboriginal Justice Forum; and the Aboriginal Community Elders Service. From 2009 to 2011 she was a member of the board of the Northern Territory Inquiry into Child Protection. She was elected to the Victorian First Peoples' Assembly in November 2019.

Recognition In 2019, Bamblett was awarded the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the Indigenous community of Victoria as an advocate for the self-determination and cultural rights of children. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in Social Work by the University of Sydney in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Aboriginal child and family welfare.