Frank Brennan (priest)
| Frank Brennan SJ, AO | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Francis Tenison Brennan 6 March 1954 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Priest, lawyer, academic |
| Known for | Human rights activism |
| Parent(s) | Gerard Brennan and Patricia O'Hara |
Francis Tenison "Frank" Brennan SJ AO (born 6 March 1954) is an Australian Jesuit priest, human rights lawyer and academic. He is known for his 1998 involvement in the Wik debate when Paul Keating called him "the meddling priest" and the National Trust classified him as a Living National Treasure. Brennan has a longstanding reputation of advocacy in the areas of law, social justice, refugee protection and Aboriginal reconciliation.
Brennan is the first born son of Sir Gerard Brennan, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and Patricia O'Hara, an anaesthestist.
He is a fourth generation Australian of purely ethnic Irish on both sides of his parents and has partial ethnic German descent and ancestry from his paternal grandmother.
Brennan studied at Downlands College in Toowoomba, and at the University of Queensland where he graduated with honours in arts and law. He then studied at the Melbourne College of Divinity, where he graduated, again with honours, in divinity. He was awarded a Master of Laws as a result of further study at the University of Melbourne.
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