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Pastor (Pr) Paul Robert Burton
Is a Minister of Religion, Musician, Environmentalist, Paralegal & Human Rights Advocate.

Born in [[Bishop's Stortford Essex England, Paul migrated from England to South Australia with his parents and his younger brother and sister when he was around 11 ½ years old.

After completing matriculation in high school in Adelaide South Australia he started his working life at 16 as an Electronic Technician (Technical Officer Grade 1) with a foundation in fundamental electronics, communications and computing. After four years of training and following a life changing significant health event, Paul gave up everything to pursue his love of music, moved from Adelaide, South Australia to Sydney NSW and became a professional musician and has continued with his passion for music for over 35 years.

Thorough that time Paul developed his musical skills and became a multi-tasking, multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter and producer. He has performed and worked with some amazing other musicians including; Elvis Presley’s drummer DJ Fontana, Frank Zappa’a drummer Chad Wackerman, James Brown’s drummer Tony Cook and has an extensive list of musical associations with a veritable “who’s who” of the Australian Music Industry.

Paul has worked in Australia and Europe for many years with his band “The Shuffle Kings”and as a live and/or studio session musician with:John Williamson, Jimmy Barnes, Keith Urban, Kev Carmody, Phil Emmanuel, Felicity Urquhart, Doug Mulray, Nathan Cavaleri, Kevin Borich, Pete Wells (guitarist Rose Tattoo), Anne Kirkpatrick, Paul Demarco, Eddy Youngblood, Don Hopkins, Dave Wray (Frank Bennett), Jim Conway, Paul Kelly, Ed Kuepper, Doc Neeson, Steve Prestwich, Graeme Connors, Dave Tice, The Headhunters, Austen Tayshus, Ian Moss, Gail Page, Wilbur Wilde, Grace Knight, Don Walker, The Brewster Brothers, Moonshine Jug & String Band and more.

After many years of performing and not long after the passing of his grandmother, around 2000, he began an applied theological practice “[|Advaita Vedanta]” that aimed at illuminating the common ground between all religions and spiritual practices, and in 2004 he was initiated into the Holy Ramakrishna Order and from this time forward dedicated his life to Pastoral work, selfless service and using his musical skills in new and creative ways to help empower and educate people.

In 2010 he turned his attention to the rapid rise of invasive mining and the importance of protecting the Australian environment, cultural heritage and precious natural resources. He founded ‘Our Land, Our Water, Our Future Inc’ and began an intense journey of grass-route community-based education and communication through direct community engagement whilst travelling throughout NSW, QLD and Victoria. This morphed in 2013 into collaboratively restructured work to develop creative community building and community connection projects to empower individuals.

In 2016, he became more active in the protection of God given, common law, constitutional and fundamental human rights, especially in regards to children, and began assisting families with Pastoral support and advocacy.

Whilst he was involved in environmental matters He spent considerable time with the Gomeroi/Gamilaroi Mob in North West NSW, and it was through his efforts to protect the sacred sites of indigenous Australians that he became aware of the vast number of aboriginals that had been forcibly removed from their families and who had also, in nearly all cases, had their own children forcibly removed. He began assisting Auntie Mimmie, a Gomeroi/Gamilaroi elder who had two grandchildren removed and who had also co-founded a large group called the “grandmothers against removals”, indigenous Australian grandmothers championing to have their grandchildren returned, they were in effect fighting state condoned child trafficking and child abuse. This was how he first came into contact with what was then called the NSW Dept of Family and Community Services (FACS) also known previously as DOCS.

Most people are of the belief that Australia stopped engaging in Genocide around 1967 with the referendum and changes to the constitution for the Aboriginal people, however, in Paul’s view nothing could be further from the truth. “they are removing more indigenous children now than ever, they are targeted by the system and now the child removal net is growing much much bigger”

As a consequence of a significant event in mid 2017 Pastor Paul found himself at the centre of a targeted international multi-media defamation campaign and became embroiled in a number of court cases with both the media and the NSW State Government. As a consequence he has appeared self represented before more Magistrates and Judges than any other individual in Australia. He has had two successes in the NSW Court of Appeal, Burton v Babb [2020] NSWCA 331 and Burton v Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions [2019]NSWCA 245 and has established significant caselaw in regards to, holding public officers personally accountable for their actions, and in a constitutional challenge currently on-foot of suppression laws that prevent the public exposure of state condoned child trafficking and child abuse.