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Members' biographies:
Chairman
He was Vice-Chancellor of Wollongong University from 1981 until 1995. During this period he was President of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (1991 & 1992) and Chairman of IDP Education Australia (1993 & 1994). Earlier he was Chairman of the Australian Schools Commission (1973-81) and Director of Education in Papua New Guinea (1966-73). He was educated at Adelaide, Queensland and Harvard Universities (where he took his doctorate in psycholinguistics as a Harkness Fellow). Senior appointments/ honours in Education, Science, Technology and the Arts include: Education
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see also - return to membership list  Cheryl AttenboroughCheryl Attenborough now resides in Hobart, Tasmania. She spent time in both New South Wales and South Australia prior to this. Cheryl's career path has taken her into the fields of education, retail, finance and the public sector. She is currently a Project Manager with the Australian Taxation Office. Cheryl is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is involved with her local community through the Lindisfarne Rowing Club and served for a number of years on the Club's management committee. Cheryl was an inaugural member of the Tasmanian Communities Online Advisory Board from 2003-2006. She is also a member of a craft co-operative. Her interests are family, reading, craft and design and traveling both inter and intrastate. Cheryl was appointed as a public member, for an initial three-year term, in July 2004. return to membership list Francesca BeddieFrancesca lives near Queanbeyan in NSW. She is a director of Make Your Point, a consultancy offering tailored training in communication. She is also an editor and public policy consultant. From 2002 to 2004 she was the executive director of Adult Learning Australia, a national advocacy body promoting learning. Ten years with the Department of Foreign Affairs led to postings in Jakarta, Moscow and in Berlin, the latter as Deputy Consul-General. Francesca has also held positions with AusAID as Director of Policy Development, the PNG Drought Taskforce and the Public Affairs & Ministerial Services. She has been a consultant in International Affairs, as well as to the Foundation of Development Corporation and to the Australian Taxation Office. Francesca is also a published author. return to membership list 
Helen EdwardsHelen Edwards is a Director of the Lane Vineyard, a family viticulture and wine business. She has had extensive experience in industry regulation in the health sector and as a director and councillor on a range of boards, currently being a member of St Peter's College Council and Secretary of the Adelaide Hills Wine Industry Association. She was appointed as a Public Member of the Council in August 2002. see also - return to membership list 
John FleetwoodJohn was born in 1957 in Adelaide where he still resides. He is currently the Manager Human Relations at ETSA Utilities, the South Australian distributor of electricity. Prior to his current position, John held a number of Union positions over 18 years. He was the Senior Industrial Officer for the South Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Association and prior to that held the position of Director of the South Australian branch of the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia. Before that he was the Industrial Team Leader of the South Australian and Northern Territory branch of the Australian Services Union. He has also been a Board member of the Electricity Industry Superannuation Scheme. Prior to his Union career he was employed in the electricity industry. John's interests include politics, current affairs, the media, fishing and sport (particularly Australian Rules football and cricket). He was appointed to the panel of Public Members in April 2004. see also - return to membership list 
Brenton HolmesBrenton lives in Curtin in the ACT. He works as a Principal Consultant with Hudson Global Resources, specialising in recruitment for senior executive and government roles. He spent fifteen years working for Senate Committees, having been a senior state public servant and ministerial official. He has worked in capacity development projects in Fiji, for the new East Timorese legislature, and implemented political literacy programs in local and remote communities. Brenton has been a long-time participant in community advocacy. He plays drums in a lounge band and sings ancient music in an a capella choir - when he's not reading or surfing. Brenton has been a Public member of the Press Council since June 2003. return to membership list 
Professor H P LeeProfessor Hoong Phun ("HP") Lee, LL.B (Hons) (Singapore), LL.M. (Malaya), Ph.D. (Monash), holds the Sir John Latham Chair of Law at Monash University since 1995 and currently is the Deputy Dean. He was appointed as a teaching fellow at Monash in 1973 and was subsequently promoted to senior tutor, lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor and professor. He was a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1985-86. In 1995 he was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Northern Territory University. He was the Associate Dean (International) 1998-1999, Associate Dean (Staffing) 2000-2003 and Acting Dean October 2003 - January 2004. He was appointed an alternate public member of the Australian Press Council in 1987 and was made a full member in 1991. In 1994 he was appointed the Deputy Chair of the Freedom of the Press Committee. In 2004 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Council. He was Chairman of the International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee of the Australian Red Cross (Victoria) from 1998-2000. In 2001 he was appointed a member of the International Board of Advisors of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research. His principal fields of interest are Australian constitutional law, constitutional law of Malaysia and Singapore, administrative law, national security law and the Australian Judiciary. Professor Lee is the author of Emergency Powers (Law Book, 1984) and Constitutional Conflicts in Contemporary Malaysia (OUP, 1995), co-author of The Australian Judiciary (Cambridge UP, 2001), Australian Federal Constitutional Law - Commentary and Materials (LBC Information Services, 1999) and In the Name of National Security - the Legal Dimensions (Law Book, 1995), co-editor of Australian Constitutional Landmarks (Cambridge UP, 2003), Australian Constitutional Perspectives (Law Book, 1992) and The Constitution of Malaysia (OUP, 2 vols, 1978 and 1986). In 1988 Professor Lee was awarded an AVCC (Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee) Visiting Fellowship. In 1994 he was awarded the inaugural LAWASIA Research Institute Fellowship. see also return to membership list 
Wendy MeadAfter a career in arts administration spanning theatre, opera, music and festivals in South Australia, Victoria and Queensland, Wendy now lives in Brisbane where she works in counselling education. She has been involved in a number of committees and a wide range of volunteer organisations, is currently a director of CMR Catering Pty Ltd (owned by her husband and a partner) and is a practising counsellor and life coach. She enjoys playing tennis, gardening, reading, attending concerts and the theatre and the wonderful outdoor lifestyle of Queensland. She has been the public member for Brisbane and south east Queensland since 2000. return to membership list 
Katherine SampsonKatherine Sampson is Managing Director and principal of Mahlab Recruitment (Vic) Pty Ltd, a specialist legal recruitment business operating nationally and overseas. Katherine studied Arts and Law at Monash University and worked as a solicitor at Corr & Corr (now Corrs Chambers Westgarth) before commencing her career in legal recruitment in 1985. Katherine has served on a number of boards and committees in both legal and non-legal spheres including positions as an executive committee member of the Australian Corporate Lawyers Association for almost a decade, Deputy Chair of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute Ethics Committee (1991-2002) and board member of the Melbourne International Arts Festival (1998-2004). She is a member of the AICD and WCEI Australia (Women Chiefs of Enterprises). She has been a Board member of Craft Victoria and is a Fellow of Leadership Victoria, having completed the Williamson Community Leadership Program in 1996. She is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Australian Corporate Lawyers Association and Law Institute of Australia. Her interests include family, reading, travel and the arts. return to membership list 
Lisa ScaffidiLisa Scaffidi is the State Director W.A. for CEDA (The Committee for Economic Development of Australia) an apolitical organization which looks at economic and social issues impacting Australia. Lisa is also a Councillor for the City of Perth. Lisa has been a public member of the Press Council since July 2003. return to membership list |
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Emeritus Professor Ken McKinnon is one of Australia's most senior educators, with experience at the highest levels in Universities, schools and government. Since 1995 he has been a consultant to higher education in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (as a principal of McKinnon Walker Pty Ltd). Projects have included work for the sector as a whole, national organisations (DETYA, the AVCC, and IDP Education Australia), and fifteen individual universities (including a year as Vice-Chancellor of James Cook University during 1997). His latest publication (with Walker and Davis) is Benchmarking. A Manual for Australian Universities (Canberra. Commonwealth of Australia. February 2000)