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Name	Elliott Frank Johnston
Born	1918 North Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died	25 August, 2011 (aged ~ 93) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Johnston, Elizabeth (wife)
Education *	Prince Alfred College (Adelaide) (student, 1932-1934) University of Adelaide (student, 1935-1938)
Occupation or Descriptor *	army officer (1940-1945) Federal, Australia communist (1941-1983) South Australia, Australia barrister (1946-1951) South Australia, Australia communist party organiser (1951-1957) South Australia, Australia barrister (1958-1983) South Australia, Australia judge (1983-1987) South Australia, Australia academic (1987-1995) South Australia, Australia legal scholar (1987-1995) South Australia, Australia
Awards	Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1994)
Key Events *	Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-91) (commissioner)
Key Organisations *	Australian Friends of Palestine (SA) (patron, ?-2011)
Political Activism *	Vietnam war opponent Communist Party (SA) (member, 1941-1983)
Workplaces *	Flinders University (law) (academic, ?-?) Johnston Withers Lawyers (owner, 1946) Johnston and Johnston (partner, 1958-?)

* Dates are approximate

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