Dr Antonio Buti is a member of the Western Australian Parliament, Honorary Fellow at the Law School at the University of Western Australia and Adjunct Professor at the Law School of Murdoch University. He was educated at the University of Western Australia, Australian National University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He has written extensively on a wide range of issues and his biography of Sir Ronald Wilson, A Matter of Conscience, won the 2007 Western Australian Premier's Book Award for non-fiction and the Premier's Prize.