Helen Milroy

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Helen Milroy is an Australian psychiatrist and children's author. She works as a consultant psychiatrist with the Western Australia Department of Health, focusing on child and adolescent psychiatry, and she leads the Western Australian Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health. She is recognised as Australia’s first Indigenous medical doctor.

Milroy was born in Perth and has ancestry from the Palyku people of the Pilbara region in Western Australia. She studied medicine at the University of Western Australia and became Australia’s first Indigenous medical doctor in 1983. She was later appointed as a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Her sisters are Sally Morgan, an artist and author, and Jill Milroy, a professor.

In 2013 she was appointed commissioner to the Australian Government's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2018 she became the first Indigenous commissioner to the Australian Football League. She is a children's author who has written three books.

Milroy has received several awards, including the Sigmund Freud Award (2011), Australian Indigenous Doctor of the Year (2018), and Western Australian of the Year (2021). She was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2023.