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Geoff Eames was employed at the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service (CAALAS) during the 1970s. While at CAALAS, Eames helped establish the Central Lands Council (CLC). "He was the first solicitor/counsel for the Land Council where he worked until 1978. He was the chief counsel/director of the Legal Service Commission of South Australia from 1980 to 1983, then senior counsel representing Aboriginal people in the Maralinga Royal Commission (British Nuclear Tests) from 1984 to 1985. From 1987 to 1991 he was senior counsel assisting for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody." (Take Power Like This Old Man Here, edited by Alexis Wright for the Central Land Council. Jukurrpa Books, 1998, p. 360)

Eames was a member of the Aboriginal Justice Committee, Law Council of Australia. He has held the positions of Chairman of the Supreme Court Cultural Relations Committee and Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.

(Source: Take Power Like This Old Man Here, ed. Alexis Wright for the Central Land Council. Jukurrpa Books, 1998, p. 360)