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Antoinette le Marchant is the former CEO of KU Children's Services, having recently retired after 13 years with the organisation. Antoinette has had a long senior career in the NSW and Federal public services, including at the Cabinet Office, Attorney General’s Department and NSW Transport as well as Comcare, the Federal Government’s workers compensation and occupational health and safety agency. She is a former editor of the Australian Quarterly and director of the Australian Institute of Political Science, its publisher. She is on the NSW Government’s Social Justice Reference Group and the NSW Motor Accident Authority as well as on the Central Sydney Planning Committee.
John Menadue was Private Secretary to Gough Whitlam from 1960 to 1967. He then served seven years as General Manager of News Limited, Sydney. He headed the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet from 1974 to 1976, working for Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser. After four years as Ambassador to Japan, he returned to Australia in 1980 to head the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. He was CEO of Qantas between 1986 and 1989, and continues to advise several national companies. He has recently chaired major Health reviews in NSW and SA.
Anna Booth is a director of the workplace relations consultancy, CoSolve, which she co-founded in 1999. CoSolve provides independent mediation, facilitation and arbitration services in workplaces in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. She is also a board member of Members Equity Bank and non-executive chair of the law firm Slater & Gordon. Anna is a former national trade union official with corporate experience arising from executive positions and membership of boards, including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG).
Tony Douglas is a director of media and polling group Essential Media Communications, which specializes in campaigns on public education, the environment, workers rights and other public issues. Prior to EMC, Tony was a broadcast journalist, designing and producing Australia’s first national environment radio program, ‘Watching Brief’, and helping design and manage Radio Australia’s regional environment information project with AusAID (1990-1992).
Chloë Flutter works for The Boston Consulting Group. Since joining BCG in 2004, she has worked for a range of clients in manufacturing, retail, transport, financial services and the public sector. Prior to joining BCG, Chloë worked in international development, including for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the NGO Olympic Aid/Right To Play. She also co-authored a Lowy Institute Paper on Australian expatriates. Chloë has a Bachelor of Economics from the ANU and a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Sydney. She also completed a doctorate on employment policy at the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Martin Foley is a former senior adviser in the Victorian Government and former Secretary of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Services Union. Now Member for Albert Park, he has a longstanding interest in progressive policy change and ways in which new forms of decision making and democratic participation can be fostered in the lives of Australians.
Stephen Jones is the National Secretary of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU), taking up a three year term from 1st January 2006. Stephen has worked in the union movement for 15 years including twelve years with the CPSU and 2 years at the ACTU. In that time, he has worked as an organiser, lawyer and elected union official in the union's public and private sector areas. Stephen’s areas of interest include public administration and the role of government, human rights and telecommunications policy.
Kate Walsh currently works with a range of non-profit social justice and environmental organisations as a consultant specialising in strategic communications, campaign development, facilitation and organisational sustainability. Most recently she was the Campaign Coordinator at GetUp! during the 2007 Federal Election and prior to that Director of the Mittagong Forum. Between 2001 and 2005 she was a Director of AID/WATCH and has also worked for the NSW and Australian Greens.
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