Hon Desley Boyle MP
Minister for Local Government and
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnership, QLD
Tom Calma
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner
Australian Human Rights Commission
Mr Calma is an Aboriginal elder from the Kungarakan tribal
group and the Iwaidja tribal group whose traditional lands are south
west of Darwin and on the Coburg Peninsula in the Northern
Territory. He has been involved in Indigenous affairs at a local,
community, state, national and international level and has worked in
the public sector for over 30 years.
Until his appointment as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Social Justice Commissioner Mr Calma managed the Community
Development and Education Branch at Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Services (ATSIS) where he worked with remote Indigenous
communities to implement community-based and driven empowerment and
participation programs. In 2003, he was Senior Adviser of Indigenous
Affairs to the Minister of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous
Affairs and from 1995 to 2002 he was a senior diplomat in India and
Vietnam.
Andrew Clarkson
Director, Aurukun Local Partnerships
Program,
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, QLD
Ned David
Chair
Torres Strait Island Regional Chair Council
Ned David is a Kulkalaig (Traditional owner from the Central
Islands in the Torres Strait) whose homeland includes Tudu (Warrior
Island), Iama (Yam Island) Gebarr (Gabba Island) Mucar (Cap Island)
Sassie Zagai (Long Island) the surrounding reefs of Wapa
(Warrior reef) and Thidu (Dungeness).
Ned is the current Chair of the Torres Strait Islanders Regional
Education Council, a position he has held since April 2000.
He is the Chair of the Magani Lagaugal Corporation which is the
Native Title Registered Body Corporate for Iama (Yam Island) and
Tudu. He is also the current Secretary of the Torres Strait
Islanders Media Assocciation (TSIMA). Ned has a very broad work
history that includes government and private sector. Ned’s current
role as the Manager of Strategic Initiatives Bound for Success
Torres Strait involves working across all sectors and agencies to
improve life opportunities for all students in the Torres Strait.
Commissioner Robert Fitzgerald AM
Productivity Commission
Robert Fitzgerald has been a full time Commissioner at the
Productivity Commission since January 2004. Since that time, Robert
has convened the Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage working group
for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service
Provision. Currently, Robert is also the Presiding Commissioner on
the Productivity Commission Study into the Contribution of the Not
for Profit Sector, and is working on inquiries into Gambling and
Executive Remuneration.
Robert has extensive experience in commerce, law, public policy and
community services. Prior to being appointed to the Commission,
Robert was a member of the National Competition Council for five
years (1999-2003). He has also been the Community and Disability
Services Commissioner and Deputy Ombudsman in NSW, the founding
Chair of the National Roundtable of Nonprofit Organisations and
National President of the Australian Council of Social Service.
Gummi Fridriksson
Director, Welfare Reform
Cape York Partnerships, QLD
Gudmundur (Gummi) Fridriksson is a Director of Cape York
Partnerships. Gummi moved to the Cape York Institute following a
Project Manager role with Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation
and has spent the last years implementing Welfare Reform in Cape
York. Gummi has over twenty years of management experience
having managed major projects in Europe, China, Hong Kong, Australia
and PNG. His extensive skills cover project management,
contract procurement and administration and design team
co-ordination. Gummi has a degree in Sociology, Masters
Degree in Business Administration and is a Member of the PNG
Institute of Management, PNG Institute of Directors, PNG Chamber of
Commerce and the International Project Management Association.
Dr Dave Goddard
Director
Collaborative Systemic Change, WA
Dave Goddard is a Director of Collaborative Systemic Change
Pty Ltd (CSCPL) and has worked with Indigenous Communities in all
States and Territories in Australia, as well as overseas, in the
past two decades. Originally a Director of Education in the
Kimberley region of WA, Dave has since worked closely with Nick
Norris during 15 of those years, undertaking research and
development in Indigenous communities that has culminated in the
development of two models: the Strategic Action Framework (SAF) and
Mutual Ways, a strategy to develop sustainable change in Indigenous
communities.
Both models were used in the creation of such successful projects
as:
• Gumula Mirnuwarni Education Project under the banner of the Polly
Farmer Foundation and Hamersley Iron (which has been replicated in
over 60 schools across Australia)
• The Fortescue Metals Group Vocational Training and Employment
Centre (FMG VTEC)
• The Northern Territory Remote Learning Partnership Agreements
between the Northern Territory Department of Education and Training
and 15 large remote communities in the Territory.
Rick Harris
Senior Director
Remote Housing Construction and Infrastructure, NT
Rod Lowther
Director, Schools Review
Department of Education and Training, WA
Tobias Nganbe
Head of Culture and Community
Wadeye School, NT
Nick Norris
Managing Director
Collaborative Systemic Change
Nick Norris has held senior executive positions in education,
defence and business. His consultancy work includes both
business, government and non-government clients, and ranges from
stand alone organizations to complex systems. He is the Managing
Director of Collaborative Systemic Change Pty Ltd. In addition
to his consultancy work, he conducts facilitator training in
Australia and the United Kingdom
Catherine O’Sullivan
QLD State Manager
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, QLD
Magistrate Howard Osborne
Magistrates Court
Department of Justice and Attorney General, QLD
Michael Stubbins
Director, Indigenous Coordination,
Probation and Parole
Queensland Correctional Services
Michael has spent more than thirty years working in the
justice system, including six years as the Clerk of the
Court/Registrar of the Magistrates Court on Thursday Island and was
one of the founding members of the Thursday Island Community Justice
Group. Before working for Queensland Corrective Services he spent
seven years with the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Policy as a legal officer and managed the Community Justice
Group program. In his current role he is responsible for
strengthening and expanding probation and parole services in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Vicki Wade
Director Aboriginal Health
Sydney South West Areas Health Service, NSW
Vicki is a proud Nyoongar woman her people are from the south
west of Perth, WA. Vicki has lived on Gandangarra land for
many years and has been accepted into that community. Vicki’s
background is nursing where she was a cardiac nurse for twenty
years. Vicki recently worked in the Department of Health as state
manager of the NSW Aboriginal Vascular Health Program she has
recently been appointed as the Area Director for Aboriginal Health
in Sydney South West Area Health Service.
Conjoint Professor Kenneth Wyatt AM
Director, Office of Aboriginal
Health, WA
He has a strong Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi heritage and
believes that education and access to the knowledge society involves
life-long learning and is the key to the change and making informed
decisions of choice.
Ken recently held the position of Director Aboriginal Health New
South Wales Department of Health from 2003 and has returned home
after being successful in being appointed as the Director Aboriginal
Health with the Western Australian Department of Health. His
leadership at the national level and within New South Wales is
widely acknowledged and appreciated by many.
Ken has been actively involved with numerous committees associated
with Aboriginal Affairs, Education, Health and the Aboriginal Lands
Trust at the community, State and National levels and with ATSIC as
a Regional Chair.
Ken is committed to working towards achieving better outcomes and
opportunities for Indigenous Australians and Australian society.
