Press Council Members

The current Council has 22 members, one of whom is the Chairman, from 1 December 2000, Professor Ken McKinnon. Public, independent journalist and editor members are appointed by the Council on the nomination of the Chairman. There is a panel of ten public members (seven of whom attend each meeting), including Professor HP Lee, the Vice Chairman. There two independent journalist members (from a panel) and one editor member (from a separate panel). Additionally, the MEAA now appoints a journalist member. The ten members nominated by metropolitan, suburban, regional and country publishing groups and AAP Information Services represent the industry and most have alternates who act in their absence.
 

The Council seeks to ensure that its membership covers a wide range of qualifications, experience, community interests and regional representation. Public members are selected having regard to personal qualities, including community involvement, as well as the need for gender, ethnic and regional balance. Members are expected to act and vote as individuals, not as representatives of the bodies that nominated them. There is a procedure whereby members declare any direct or indirect interest in complaints before it. Members who declare such an interest leave the meeting when they have been directly involved in the processing of a complaint. In any case, members with a declared interest take no part in the debate nor do they vote on it.

Current Members and Alternates

A list of the current members and alternates follows. Biographies of the members are contained in separate pages. There are three such pages:

A list of the Chairmen, Vice Chairmen and Executive Secretaries since the foundation of the Council is contained in the history of the Council.

The APC office is in Sydney, but the Council, Complaints Committee often meets in other centres.

Members - May 2008

Chairman
Professor Ken McKinnon

Industry Members

Member	Constituent Body	Alternate
Phillip Dickson	Australian Associated Press	Selina Day
Roslyn Guy	The Age	Russell Skelton
Peter Jeanes	WA Newspapers	Zoltan Kovacs
Bruce Morgan	Regional Dailies	Peter Owen
Sam North	John Fairfax Publishing	Gerard Noonan
Bob Osburn	Community Newspapers of Australia (formerly ASNA)	Gene Swinstead
Campbell Reid	News Ltd	Sharon Hill
John Dunnet	Country Press Australia	David Sommerlad
John Trevorrow	Herald & Weekly Times Ltd	Rex Jory
Pam Walkley	ACP Magazines	vacancy

Prof Hoong Phun Lee (Vice-Chairman)	Brenton Holmes
Cheryl Attenborough	Wendy Mead
Helen Edwards	Katherine Sampson
John Fleetwood	Lisa Scaffidi
Vacancy
Journalist Members
Panel of Journalist Members	(2 attend each meeting)
Bruce Baskett	Prue Innes
Adrian McGregor
Panel of Editor Members	(1 attends each meeting)
Warren Beeby	Gary Evans
MEAA Representative
Alan Kennedy

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