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Professor Dennis Altman AM is the son of Jewish refugees, and a writer and academic who first came to attention with the publication of his book Homosexual: Oppression & Liberation in 1972. This book, which has often been compared to Greer’s Female Eunuch and Singer’s Animal Liberation was the first serious analysis to emerge from the gay liberation movement, and was published in seven countries, with a readership which continues today. [In 2010 it was published in Japan, and in 2012 University of Queensland Press issued a fortieth anniversary edition].
Since then Altman has written eleven books, exploring sexuality, politics and their inter-relationship in Australia, the United States and now globally. These include The Homosexualization of America; AIDS and the New Puritanism; Rehearsals for Change, a novel (The Comfort of Men) and memoirs (Defying Gravity). His book, Global Sex (Chicago U.P, 2001), has been translated into five languages, including Spanish, Turkish and Japanese. Most recently he published Gore Vidal’s America (Polity) and Fifty First State? [Scribe].
Altman is Professor of Politics and Director of the Institute for Human Security at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. He was President of the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (2001-5), and since 2004 has been a member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society. In 2005 he was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, and has been a Board member of Oxfam Australia. He was listed by The Bulletin as one of the 100 most influential Australians ever [July 4 2006], and was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia June 2008.
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Anna-Maria Arabia is CEO of Science Technology Australia. Previously Anna-Maria was a senior policy advisor to Anthony Albanese, Federal Infrastructure Minister, and was social policy advisor to former Labor Leader, Kim Beazley. Anna-Maria is a trained scientist completing a Bachelor of Science at the University of Melbourne and has undertaken post-graduate research at the Baker Heart Research Institute in Melbourne, and the Mario Negri Pharmacological Research Institute in Milan. Twitter: @ayyemm. |
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Professor Marian Baird is Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Women and Work Research Group in the University of Sydney Business School. She is a former Vice-President (Academic) of the NTEU University of Sydney Branch and is currently a Fellow of the University of Sydney Senate. |
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Professor Jim Barber is the University of New England's Vice-Chancellor.
Before taking up this position in February 2010, Professor Barber was Deputy-Vice Chancellor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University.
Professor Barber is a distinguished academic. After completing his PhD in experimental psychology, his research shifted into the applied fields of drug addiction and child welfare. His research record includes minimal interventions in the secondary prevention of drug addiction, and evidence-based social policy and child welfare.
He is a winner of North America's Pro Humanitate Medal for his research in child welfare and a winner of the Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching from Flinders University.
Prior to moving to senior executive positions in the higher education sector, Professor Barber's roles included that of Reader and then Professor of Social Work (La Trobe University and the University of Tasmania), Professor of Social Administration (Flinders University) and Dean at the University of Toronto.
Professor Barber’s experience includes roles of Company Director on a number of national bodies, including Open Universities Australia (Australia's leading provider of fee-paying online degree programs), Jesuit Social Services Australia and Graduate Careers Australia.Professor Barber has significant international education experience, most significantly taking on the additional role of interim President of RMIT International University of Vietnam. He has worked in regional universities and has a commitment to their important contribution in providing access to education, and also in driving economic prosperity and enhancing the morale, culture and identity of their regions. |
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Dr Andrew Bonnell is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Queensland. His publications include the books The People’s Stage in Imperial Germany (2005) and Shylock in Germany (2008) and numerous articles, specializing in modern German history. He is a past convener of the History discipline at UQ, and is History editor of the Australian Journal of Politics and History. He has been NTEU Branch President at UQ since 2003 and is currently NTEU Queensland Division President and a member of the NTEU National Executive. Member of the University of Queensland Senate (academic staff-elected) |
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Professor Scott Bowman began his professional life as a radiographer. As well as professional qualifications he holds Masters Degrees in Politics and Business Administration. He undertook a PhD in the field of clinical decision making. Before moving to Australia he worked at South Bank University and St Martins College Lancaster. In Australia he has held senior positions at Charles Sturt University, the University of South Australia and James Cook University. In August 2009 he was appointed the Vice Chancellor and President of CQUniversity Australia. In this position he has led an ambitious program of renewal with the aim to make CQUniversity Australia’s most engaged University. Under his leadership the University is well on track to become Queensland’s first dual sector University. Professor Bowman is a keen aviator and an enthusiastic potter and sculptor. |
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Dr John Buchanan is the Director, Workplace Research Centre, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Sydney. Between 1988 and 1991 he was part of the team that undertook the first Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (AWIRS). He joined theWorkplace Research Centre (formerly ACIRRT) in 1991 and has been its Director since 2005. Until recently his major research interest has been the demise of the classical wage earner model of employment and the role of the state in nurturing new forms of multi-employer co-ordination to promote both efficiency and fairness in the labour market. Building on this research, he is now devoting special attention to the evolution of the labour contract, working life transitions and the dynamics of workforce development. His other major research interest is the relationship between work and health.
He was one of the authors of Australia at work: just managing? (1999) of Fragmented Futures: New Challenges in Working Life published by Federation Press in 2003. These texts provide an overview of the restructuring of work in Australia since the 1970s. His most recently co-authored book is Safety in Numbers: Nurse-patient ratios and the future of health care, published by Cornell University Press in 2008. |
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Dr Meredith Burgmann was involved in the early feminist movement and was an Academic at Macquarie University for 18 years. She mainly researched and wrote about equal pay and Aboriginal women. She was the first woman President of the Academics Union. She was elected to Parliament in 1991 and President of the Legislative Council in 1999.
Meredith is a founding member of the National Pay Equity Coalition and Emily’s List and a founder (1993) of the Ernie Awards for sexist behaviour. She has written a book on misogyny for Allen & Unwin and a book on early Australian environmentalism and the Green Bans for UNSW Press. She is presently editing a book about ASIO. |
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Dr John Byron was Senior Advisor – Science and Research to Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, from May 2010 until January 2012.
For the previous seven years he was Executive Director of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. During that time he also served on a host of boards and committees, including: the Cooperative Research Centres Committee; the Old Parliament House Advisory Council; the Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council; the editorial advisory board of Campus Review the executive of the Association for the Medical Humanities (Australia/NZ); the management committee of Manning Clark House; the program committee of the Canberra Writers’ Festival; the executive and board of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; the Humanities Sub-Committee of the Excellence in Research for Australia Indicators Development Group; and as chair of the Centre for Research on Language Change at the Australian National University.
John has degrees in English from the Universities of Sydney and Adelaide. His PhD thesis was on recent movies dealing with reality, identity and authenticity. Prior to opting for the humanities, he undertook university studies in the sciences, and he maintains a keen amateur interest in developments in science and technology. He has worked in higher education and research policy in different capacities since 1997, including a stint in 2001 as national President of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. He was a member of the NTEU for over a decade while working in the university sector. |
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Erima Dall is a fourth year undergraduate at Sydney University, a student activist, and a member of Solidarity. She is currently an organiser for a student campaign to stop cuts to 340 staff members at the University and demand quality education for students. She is an outspoken critic of the way Universities are increasingly run like businesses, and believes that students and staff must campaign for proper government funding. In the last two years she has been active in campaigns to stop cuts to subjects and staff in Geoscience, Biology and Political Economy, in which she majors. In mid-2011 she participated in a sit-in in the foyer of the University’s Fisher Library to stop half-a-million books being sent to storage. Erima is also an Environment Officer of the Student Representative Council, and has been active in a student climate-action group for three years. On both the question of the climate and education she is opposed to privatisation, market-models, and higher-costs for consumers. She has spoken at the Climate Summit and Students of Sustainability conferences on the problems of market-based solutions to climate change, and the need for large-scale government investment in renewable energy. Her Honours thesis will focus on this topic.
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Dr Ian Dobson is an analyst of Australian university statistics who has produced a number of studies, reports and papers based on these. In the past he has analysed statistics for the Australian Council of Deans of Science, and recently has been working with a team from the Office of the Chief Scientist. An administrative career in planning and statistics from 1971 to 1995 at RMIT, Melbourne and Monash preceded nearly ten years spent as associate to Monash’s previous Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Peter Darvall.
He is also heavily involved in scholarly editing and English revision and is editor of the NTEU’s Australian Universities’ Review (AUR) and the Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. He edits PhDs, papers, websites, funding applications and policy documents for a number of universities and agencies in Australia and Scandinavia.
He completed a Monash PhD on higher education equity policy and social mobility in 2004, has authored/co-authored about 65 published papers, and presented a similar number of papers at conferences in Australia, Europe and the USA. His research interests include access and equity, student fees, university funding, the so-called brain-drain, the ‘decline’ of science in Australian universities, aspects of the Australian PhD and academic/general staff relationships.
Since 2005, he has split his time between Australia and Finland, and is currently a researcher at the University of Helsinki’s Network for Higher Education and Innovation Research and an adjunct researcher with Monash University’s Centre for Population and Urban Research. |
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Dr Jamie Doughney is the proud former President of the Victorian NTEU. For a day job, Doughney is a researcher at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies at Victoria University, Melbourne (proudly, a low-SES university). |
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Dr Sandra Grey is the President of the New Zealand Tertiary Education Union which represents both academic and general staff at tertiary institutions around New Zealand. Sandra is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focus is on social movements in New Zealand. Sandra’s most recent publication in this field is Women's Movements: Flourishing or in Abeyance? co-edited with Marian Sawer. She has also published on the substantive representation of women in politics including in the journal Politics and Gender, and in Sawer, Trimble and Tremblay (ed) Representing Women in Parliament. Sandra is currently working on a major project examining activism by the New Zealand women’s, union, and anti-poverty movements since 1970. |
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Tammi Jonas was the 2010 National President of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. As she nears completion of her PhD in cultural studies at the University of Melbourne, she anticipates joining the 45% of those who don't intend to pursue an academic career. Tammi writes a regular column for The Advocate, farms free-range rare breed pigs, but can most often be found stirring the proverbial pot with her left hand and the cast-iron one with her right. |
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John Kaye was elected as Greens member of the NSW Upper House in March 2007. He has been a vocal critic of electricity industry privatisation and a strong advocate for renewable energy and energy efficiency. Before entering parliament, John taught and researched electrical engineering at the University of NSW where he specialised in sustainable energy and greenhouse issues.
John has a PhD from the University of California Berkeley and over twenty years of research and teaching experience. John is the Greens NSW spokesperson for Education including universities and is a proud member of the NTEU. |
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Professor Steve Larkin is a Kungarakany man fromDarwin in the Northern Territory. Prior to 1995, Steve worked in urban, rural and remote Aboriginal communities in health and community development programs whilst working with the Northern Territory Government. In 1995 Professor Larkin was appointed by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) as their National Aboriginal Health Adviser. In 1997 Professor Larkin became the inaugural Chief Executive Officer for the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO. In 1999, Professor Larkin joined the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care as an Assistant Secretary in the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) where he managed the Social Health (including implementing and managing the Bringing The Home program), Substance Misuse, Men’s and Prison’s health, Executive Policy as well as the Research and Data programs. In 2002 Professor Larkin managed the National Indigenous Employment program for a brief period before transferring to the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) as Deputy Principal. In 2004, Professor Larkin was appointed as Principal (CEO) of the Institute. In 2009 Professor Larkin took up his current position of Pro Vice-Chancellor – Indigenous Leadership withCharlesDarwinUniversity. Professor Larkin has served on numerous national advisory committees in Indigenous Affairs. He is currently a member of the Board with Beyond Blue, the national depression initiative and was appointed as Chair of the Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council in 2009, and Chair of the NT Board of Studies in 2010. |
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Professor Simon Marginson is a professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, where he works in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Much of his work is focused on international and global aspects: in recent years he has conducted research in 16 Asia-Pacific universities.
Simon is an active academic commentator and public commentator on higher education issues, with a regular column in The Australian. One of the Editors of the world journal Higher Education, he has served on the Australian Universities Review Board since 1989. Recent books include Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Strategic responses to globalization (with Sarjit Kaur and Erlenawati Sawir, 2011) and Handbook of Higher Education and Globalization (with Roger King and Rajani Naidoo, 2011). |
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Stephen Matchett writes for The Australian and the Sydney Institute. He is a former marketing director of Monash and UWS and holds a BA and PhD (in US political history) from the University of Sydney.
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Robyn May is a PhD candidate at Griffith University, in the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management. Robyn's PhD is investigating the casualisation of academic employment, what has caused it and what are the implications. The research is part of an ARC project, Gender and Employment Equity, strategies for advancement in Australian Universities, and Robyn is the grateful recipient of a scholarship with the project and additional support from the Griffith Business School. Robyn hopes to complete her thesis by mid 2013. |
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Professor Greg McCarthy is the Head of School of Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. He has wide research interests, including the causes of public policy failure, the politics of climates change, the politics of culture with a special interest in the cinematic representation of governance, electoral politics, and has contributed via both research and practice in international higher education debates.
Along with the social sciences disciplines, the School of Social Sciences covers three languages, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian, and he has taken a keen interest in developing these programs within Australia and overseas for both domestic and native speakers. As such, he has overseeing a notable expansion in-country learning programs in China and Indonesia. He is currently writing a book with colleagues in China comparing contemporary governance in China and Australia. |
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Grahame McCulloch has been General Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union since its formation in 1993. Prior to that he was General Secretary (1985-1993), Assistant General Secretary (1984) and Industrial Officer (1982-83) of the Union of Australian College Academics (UACA).
He has been a participant and member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Council and Executive since the mid-1990s. He was a member of the Australian Government’s Trade Development Council (1989-1992) and National Advisory Committee on International Education Training and Services (1989-1993).
He has wide international experience including membership of the Education International (EI) World Executive Board (2004-present) and its Higher and Further Education Committee (1996-1998).
As the higher education sector’s leading national union industrial strategist and negotiator, Grahame has written and spoken widely on the finance and economics of higher education, the culture and work practices of academic labour and the development of unionism in the university sector. He has a strong interest in access to higher education, international higher education and the political and economic consequences of globalisation.
Before entering the union movement, Grahame studied history and politics at the University of Tasmania (1977-1979) and was a national student leader holding full time posts with the Australian Union of Students (AUS) as Tasmanian Regional Organiser (1978) and National Education Vice-President (1980).
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Catriona Menzies-Pike is Managing Editor of New Matilda, a daily news and current affairs website.
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Jillian Miller is a Mirning woman with family ties to the West Coast of South Australia. Jillian has been a union member since her student teacher days and was on the AEU National ATSIEC for 8 years. She is currently the Chairperson of the Indigenous Policy Committee of the NTEU and works at the University of South Australia as Coordinator - Indigenous Student Services. Jillian was previously, Superintendent Aboriginal Education in South Australia, and the inaugural chairperson of the Senior Officers Nation Network Indigenous Education (SONNIE).
Jillian led two recent national research projects for DEEWR initiated by the IHEAC: Good Practice Models of Leadership that Sustain Indigenous Participation, Retention and Success in Higher Education, and A Study of First Year Experiences of Indigenous Students in Australian Universities. She is a member of the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Board and the ACER Indigenous Standing Committee. |
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Arfa Noor is the 2011/2012 CISA President. The Council of International Students Australia (CISA) is the national peak representative for International Students studying in Australia across all sectors.
Arfa came to Australia in 2009 as an International Student from Pakistan and is currently completing her Bachelors in Business from the Melbourne Institute of Technology. She has been working with the International Education sector for almost two years now as a student representative and advocate.
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Andrew Norton is the higher education program director at the Grattan Institute. Before joining the Grattan Institute in August 2011, he had worked as a higher education policy adviser for 13 years. Starting as a ministerial adviser, he moved to the University of Melbourne where he worked for Alan Gilbert and Glyn Davis. He is a regular media commentator on higher education issues, and the author of many publications on higher education. |
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Dr John O'Brien is an Honorary Associate Professor within the Discipline of Work and Organisation Studies at the University of Sydney.
He was an activist within the Union of Australian College Academics and subsequently the NTEU at branch, state and national level until his retirement in 2010. He was a member of the NTEU National Executive from 1993 until 1998.
His research interests include public sector industrial relations and in the education sector. He has written about work organisation and union activity in the British Civil Service and the Australian Public Service. He has a written a history of the NSW Teachers' Federation.
He was an ACTU nominated member of the Higher Education Council in early 1990s and a member of the Privacy Advisory Committee to the Australian Privacy Commissioner from 2003 until 2011.
He is currently undertaking a history of the National Tertiary Education Union (and its predecessor organisations) funded by the NTEU and located at the University of Sydney.
John is a life member of the NTEU. |
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Deborah O’Neill is the Member for Robertson.
Education is Deb’s passion and before she entered federal politics it was also her profession.
Deb was a lecturer at the University of Newcastle’s School of Education at Ourimbah, and had a long career as a high school teacher on the NSW Central Coast.
In line with her professional interests she has chosen to sit on the House Standing Committee on Education and Employment.
Deb is also a member of the House Standing Committee on Health and Ageing and Joint Committee on Public Accounts and Audit. |
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Jeannie Rea is the National President of the NTEU, commencing in October 2010 from being the Deputy Dean of Arts, Education and Human Development at Victoria University, She started at the university as a level A academic, following a career as a TAFE teacher and as a teachers’ union media coordinator. Her teaching and research is in gender studies, public relations, public advocacy, environmental science and labour history, with a particular focus upon intersectionality and social change. She has worked in education for over thirty years actively participating in many levels of institutional governance and management in both union and professional capacities. Having also held positions in government, NGOs and trade unions locally and internationally, she is well placed to reflect upon the changes and trends in tertiary education. Jeannie has a demonstrated lifelong commitment to access and equity in education and to transformative pedagogy and curriculum. In the past year she written and spoken extensively on contemporary issues in higher education, and also on trade union responsibilities to support and advocate for Indigenous Australians, on union action for climate change and environmental sustainability; and on the mask of feminisation obscuring women’s lack of gender equality in the workplace. |
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Belinda Robinson commenced as Chief Executive with Universities Australia – the peak body representing Australia’s 39 universities - in January 2012. Belinda is a highly experienced Chief Executive of peak national organisations with an extensive background in public policy and in the private sector.
Belinda has been the Chief Executive of peak bodies for over a decade and came to Universities Australia from the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association where she was Chief Executive for over 6 years.
Belinda spent nine years in the Federal Government including six in senior and executive positions within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet where she was responsible for the oversight of a range of resource, primary industries and environment policy issues. Belinda has also worked in a variety of resource planning roles, in State and local governments, including with the NSW Department of TAFE.
Belinda has sat on many Boards and Committees. In addition to her role at UA Belinda is also a Director of Autism-Asperger ACT, a Member of the CSIRO Energy and Transport Sector Advisory Council, and a Director of ASX listed company Beach Energy. She has a BA from the University of New England, a Masters of Environmental Law from the ANU, is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has a strong interest in corporate governance.
As Chief Executive of Universities Australia, Belinda will spearhead the sector’s campaign to deepen its engagement with the Australian public, to build strong mainstream support and to secure universities place as the centrepiece for securing national long-term economic and social prosperity. |
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David Robinson is the associate executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, representing more than 66,000 academic and general staff across the country. David is responsible for the Association’s research, communications and advocacy work, and international relations.
Prior to joining CAUT, he was the senior economist with the the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,Canada’s leading progressive think-tank. He has also been a lecturer atSimonFraserUniversityinBurnaby,British Columbia, andCarletonUniversityinOttawa. He is the author of a number of articles, reviews, and reports on higher education and research policy, vocational education and training, and the impact of international trade and investment agreements on labour markets and public services.
Currently, David also serves as the senior adivsor on higher education, copyright and international trade issues to Education International, the global union federation representing more than 30 million teachers and education workers in 171 countries and territories. |
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Jo Scott is the Policy Analyst for the New Zealand Tertiary Education Union. Her recent work has included analysis of the Performance Based Research Fund, including working with union members in the Canterbury region whose research has been affected by the recent earthquakes. As well Jo has undertaken policy development in the areas of access to and funding for public tertiary education, and implications of free trade agreements on tertiary education.
Jo is a descendant of Te Koeti Turanga and Patiere Tutoko, who resided at Makaawhio Pā at the mouth of the Makaawhio River, Te Tai Poutini (West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand). Jo is also a member of clan Scott, so draws on two strong tribal identities.
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Professor Glenda Strachan is a professor in the Department of Employment Relations and Human Resources, in the Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Queensland. She has developed a body of research on contemporary and historical workplace change especially issues that relate to women’s working experiences. Currently she is first Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkage Grant ‘Gender and Employment Equity: Strategies for Advancement in Australian Universities’. The book Managing Diversity in Australia: Theory and Practice (Strachan, French and Burgess) was published in 2010 by McGraw-Hill. Her work has been published in international and Australian journals. Glenda has a PhD from the University of Queensland which was published as Labour of Love: The History of the Nurse’s Association in Queensland 1850 - 1950, (Allen & Unwin, 1996). Prior to entering academia Glenda worked with trade unions. |
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Michael Thomson is the President of the University of Sydney NTEU Branch. Thomson began working at the University in 1989 as an Attendant Driver and currently works in student administration. His job involves updating student records, enrolment, student progression, exams, results and graduations. |
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Professor Margaret Thornton is Professor of Law at the Australian National University. She has degrees from Sydney, New South Wales and Yale Universities and is a Barrister of the High Court. Her research spans discrimination, feminism, legal education, legal profession and the corporatisation of universities. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Her most recent book is Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law, Routledge, London, 2012. |
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Professor Peter van Onselen is contributing editor at The Australian, writing weekly columns for business section on Wednesdays and the focus section on the weekends. He also writes a weekly column in the News Ltd Sunday papers and hosts "Australian Agenda" and "The Contrarians" on Sky News. Dr van Onselen is a Winthrop Professor at The University of Western Australia, and co-authored "John Winston Howard: The Biography" (Melbourne University Press).He previously presented cover stories for Channel 9's current affairs program "Sunday" and wrote a weekly column for The Bulletin. |
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Amanda Vanstone entered Federal Parliament in 1984, as a Senator for South Australia. At that time she was the youngest member of the Senate. She was re-elected in 1987, 1993, 1998 and 2004.
She served as a Minister in the Australian Government from the 1996 election until January 2007. Except for a period of just over three years as Minister for Justice /Customs all her Ministerial positions were in Cabinet. She is the longest serving female Cabinet Minister since Federation.
1996-1997 Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs
1997-1998 Minister for Justice
1998-2001 Minister for Justice and Customs
2001-2003 Minister for Family and Community Services and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women
2003-2006 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
2003-2006 Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation/Indigenous Affairs
2006-2007 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
2007-2010 Australian Ambassador to Italy and to San Marino and Permanent Representative to the U.N. Food & Agriculture Organisation and the U.N. World Food Program
Prior to entering Parliament, Ms Vanstone worked as a legal practitioner and was educated at the University of Adelaide, where she completed both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees. She also has a Marketing Studies Certificate and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.
Currently Ms Vanstone writes a fortnightly column for The Age.
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Dr Julie Wells was appointed University Secretary and Vice-President at RMIT in April 2009. Prior to that, she was the Director of Policy and Planning at RMIT, and before that, Principal Policy Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor.
Julie heads the Governance and Planning portfolio, which comprises the University Secretariat, the Policy and Planning Group and the Chancellery. Governance and Planning provides integrated support for governance and strategic and business planning across RMIT. It incorporates responsibility for the University Council, its committees and RMIT’s controlled entities, statutory and performance reporting, government relations, institutional research and student load planning and management, and a range of university-wide administrative functions.
She has extensive experience in public policy and in tertiary education administration and management. She has taught in schools, universities and TAFE colleges and between 1998 and 2002 she was the Policy and Research Coordinator in the National Office of the National Tertiary Education Union. She has also worked as an adviser to Commonwealth and State parliamentarians and in the Victorian and Australian Public Service. She was a founding member of the Board of the Council of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.| |
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Michael West is a cultural representative of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council who are the traditional custodians of the Land, Air, Water and Culture within their boundaries.
Michael is a member of the Stolen Generations and is an Aboriginal man of the Gamilaroi Nation.
Michael is a:
- Delegate of National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
- Executive Member of National Sorry Day Committee (NSDC)
- Director of the NSW Indigenous Chamber of Commerce (NSWICC)
- Guwaali CEO & Founder.
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Professor George Williams AO is one of Australia’s leading constitutional lawyers and public commentators. He is the Anthony Mason Professor, a Scientia Professor and the Foundation Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. He is also an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.
George has written and edited 28 books and as a barrister has appeared in the High Court of Australia in a number of cases. He has chaired and participated in public inquiries for a number of governments, and writes a regular column for the Sydney Morning Herald. |
