Kate Miller (Chair)
Kate Miller has had extensive senior executive experience in media, government and arts organisations. For many years a producer and broadcaster with ABC Radio particularly Radio National, she then became ABC Manager Regionals in Western Australia and then Radio Manager, State Manager and State Director of the ABC in New South Wales. Kate worked for the ABC as a broadcaster and senior manager from 1974 till 2000. Kate became Chair of the Advisory Council of the Sydney Institute of Technology, the largest TAFE in NSW in 2001 (2001-2005). In 2003 Kate was appointed Government Relations Manager for the NSW Department for Women.
Kate became the General Manager of the Barking Gecko Theatre Company, (Western Australia’s specialist theatre company for children). Kate is presently a member of the Board of Artsource, the peak body for visual artists in Western Australia. Previous Board experiences include membership of the 1980’s government inquiry into community services in Western Australia plus membership of a major teaching hospital.
John Menadue AO
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. He was the founding chair of the Centre for Policy Development.
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Anna Booth
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
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
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
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.
Nadine Flood
Nadine Flood is National Secretary of the CPSU. After studying Economics at Macquarie University and being a union delegate in universities and local government, Nadine began as an organiser with the CPSU in 1995, representing members across government agencies and in Telstra. She has also worked with the ACTU and with international unions such as the SIEU in America.
In more recent times, Nadine has represented CPSU members in agencies such as DEEWR, ABS and the APSC as well as directing the CPSU’s involvement in the Your Rights at Work campaign.
Antoinette le Marchant
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.
Andrew Rothery
Andrew Rothery is the Chairman of the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. He is the founder and former Executive Chairman of the private equity firm Archer Capital. He also serves on the boards of various National Australia Bank/MLC wealth management companies and the board of the International Grammar School, Sydney. In addition he chairs the advisory board of the Michael Reid group of companies and the board of the Australian Art Fair Foundation.
Anne De Salis
Anne has held senior executive roles with AMP Limited, MBF Australia Pty Ltd and the Commonwealth Treasury. She was also a Senior Advisor to then Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Currently, Anne is a non-executive director of the NSW TAFE Commission and Members Equity Bank Pty Ltd, as well as a trustee for two large public sector super funds. Anne runs a business as an independent consultant/executive coach working with The Academy Network and Executive Coaching International. As a member of Chief Executive Women and McCarthy Mentoring, she also supports and mentors young women in business.
Anne worked with large Australian businesses as Group Executive, Corporate Culture and Communications, at MBF and as General Manager of AMP’s large corporate superannuation business.
Prior to joining Prime Minister Keating’s Office, Anne worked in the Commonwealth Treasury as an economic adviser to the Federal Government. In 1991 she became the first woman to join Treasury’s senior executive service since Federation. She completed her masters degree at the ANU and became a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors in 2002.
Greg Smith
Greg Smith is Adjunct Professor, Economic and Social Policy, Australian Catholic University (Canberra) and consults and teaches in economic and social policy, and public policy advising. He is a member of the Commonwealth Grants Commission. Until 2004 Greg held senior positions in the Australian Treasury, including Executive Director Budget Group and Revenue Group, head of the Financial System and Tax Policy Divisions and Secretary to the Financial System Inquiry (1997). In the mid 1980s he was tax policy adviser in the Office of the Treasurer. He has been a member in recent years of several policy review processes including strategis state budget reviews, a land transport taskforce, and the Future Tax System Review (2008 -09)