Dominic Yau is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and High Court of Australia. Dominic has been, among other things, a decorated returned soldier in the Australian Army and former manager in the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA), having served overseas with the Department in Hong Kong and Beijing. 

Dominic holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (Melbourne) and Bachelor of Laws (Latrobe), and speaks Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), and Vietnamese. 

He also lectures in the Victoria University Australian Immigration Law programme