Julie Coulton

Senior Legal Professional

Julie Coulton is a legal professional, practised in the administration and prosecution of the law, after more than a decade working in commonwealth and state government agencies, including the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation of People with Disability. She was formerly a judge’s associate of the Workers’ Compensation Court of NSW, and an administrative financial adviser in the Department of Parliamentary Services (NSW).

Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in archaeology and history, and has worked as a private researcher on the trail of mysteries as diverse as missing eighteenth-century British naval swords, that may or may not have a link to Errol Flynn, through to locating a lost witness in the tale of Michael Rockefeller, the anthropologist and heir to the Rockefeller fortune, who disappeared while working amongst New Guinea’s last head-hunting tribe, the Asmat, in 1961. Closer to home, she’s currently researching the dark and untold story of infanticide in late-Victorian and Edwardian Sydney.

For 25 years she’s been an avid family history researcher and writer, and, in 2015, she graduated with distinction from the Society of Australian Genealogists’ certificate in genealogical research program. Her love of genealogy began around the dinner table, where she first heard old family stories of her 5x great-grandfather, Michael Dwyer, the Wicklow Chief, and leader of the 1798 Irish uprising against English rule, who’s buried at Waverley cemetery, Sydney, along with her 5x great-grandmother Mary, in the world’s largest monument to Irish nationalism.