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In 2010, Rodney Dillon was a council member of the Australian Heritage Council, 'the Indigenous Campaigner for Amnesty International and current Chair of the National Reference Group for Repatriation of Australian Indigenous Remains. He has been instrumental in changes to British repatriation policies and to the repatriation of many remains of Aboriginal Australian people.

Dillon is a former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Commissioner for Tasmania, serving for three terms, and a member of the Stolen Generations Alliance: Australians for Truth, Justice and Healing, which saw Tasmania become the first state to remunerate members of the Stolen Generation. He has been involved in Aboriginal fishing rights at state and national levels and chaired a World Indigenous Fishing Conference in Vancouver. He is a founding member of the South East Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and current Chair of the newly formed Weetapoona Aboriginal Corporation.' Source: www.environment.gov.au/ (Sighted 06/07/2010).

Rodney Dillon is a descendant of Fanny Cochrane Smith (q.v.).