Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Youth Justice, Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak
Murray Benton is a proud Aboriginal Barkindji Koori man from Central West New South Wales and serves as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Youth Justice at Queensland’s Youth Justice and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP). He is an appointment member of the Child Death Review Board with the Queensland Family and Child Commission and a Board Director of DVConnect, Queensland’s leading statewide crisis support service for people affected by domestic, family, and sexual violence.
Murray brings extensive leadership and frontline experience across housing, homelessness, and child, youth, and family services with deep expertise in systemic issues affecting young people in the youth justice and child protection systems. He has led specialist service delivery in regional communities working across crisis response, intensive case management, domestic family and sexual violence, primary health and antenatal care, sexual and reproductive health, disaster recovery, and multicultural support. He also played a key role in developing Queensland’s first local housing action plan. In 2018, Murray gained national recognition for The Good Fight Australia, a youth mental health and suicide prevention campaign informed by personal family experience. He led the initiative for two years, advocating for stronger Government responses to bullying and self-harm in schools, with wide-ranging support nationally and internationally.
Murray is a dedicated advocate for preventing and ending violence against women and children, shaped by his own childhood experience as a victim alongside his mother. He champions the need for greater male awareness, accountability, and targeted prevention and intervention. With close ties to the Stolen Generations Murray brings a critical lens to the impacts of severed cultural identity and kinship.
