Professor Larissa Behrendt is an Eualeyai/Kamillaroi woman, Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney, and is admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT and NSW as a barrister. Behrendt is a Land Commissioner at the Land and Environment Court, the Alternate Chair of the Serious Offenders Review Board, a member of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, and a founding member of the Australian Academy of Law. As well as writing novels, she has also written and directed a documentary called After the Apology, which follows four grandmothers who start a national movement to fight the continued removal of indigenous children from their homes. After the Apology is playing at the Maoriland Film Festival, March 21-25, in Otaki.