Martin Hardie, has managed bands (such as the Laughing Clowns and Warumpi band) and worked in Aboriginal Art and Craft centres. He has been a solicitor, and a barrister, acting in matters concerning administrative law and constitutional law, and particularly, as counsel for Australian Indigenous artists in their quest for copyright protection, the challenge by the East Timorese Resistance to Australian legislation implementing an agreement with the Republic of Indonesia concerning the division of East Timor's oil and gas resources, and, in a case concerning legislation in Australia legalising