Patricia Audrey Anderson AO is an Australian human rights advocate and health administrator.
Anderson grew up in the Parap camp in Darwin, Northern Territory, encountering discrimination and racism.
Anderson worked as a legal secretary for the Woodward Royal Commission into Aboriginal Land Rights.
[citation needed] Together with Rex Wild QC, she co-authored the 2007 Little Children Are Sacred report on child abuse in the Northern Territory.
[9] She was co-chair on the Referendum Council which consulted with hundreds of indigenous people to deliver the historic Uluru Statement from the Heart in May 2017.