Damien Freeman
Dr Damien Freeman

Damien Freeman is a visiting scholar at the PM Glynn Institute. He founded and directs the Governor-General's Prize for the Constitution Education Fund Australia. Together with Julian Leeser MP, he established Uphold and Recognise, a non-profit organisation committed to upholding the Australian Constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians. In 2015, Noel Pearson launched The Australian Declaration of Recognition, a pamphlet written by Freeman and Leeser.
Damien lectures on ethics and aesthetics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and convenes a public conversation series with Dr Simon Longstaff AO at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is currently working on a project investigating the conservative cast of mind in contemporary Australia, with particular reference to Tony Abbott.
He was educated at Masada College and the University of Sydney, where he read classical Hebrew and Aramaic, philosophy, and law, before pursuing doctoral studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Damien was admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and a Licentiate of Trinity College London. He has previously served as legal clerk in the Crown Solicitor's Office seconded to the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Glenbrook Rail Accident, as tipstaff to the Hon. Mr Justice K. R. Handley AO, private secretary to Lord Brennan QC, and assistant to Sir Charles Mackerras CH AC CBE. He has contributed to public debate in Quadrant, Spectator, Weekend Australian, and Australian Financial Review, and on ABC Radio's Counterpoint, Weekend Arts, and Between the Lines programmes.
Damien has also published articles in: Public Law Review, Constitutional Law and Policy Review, Australian Bar Review, Harvard Review of Philosophy, Literature and Aesthetics and Journal of Aesthetic Education.