Advisory Board

Professor Fiona Wood AM, Director of Burns Service of WA

Professor Carmen Lawrence - Professorial Fellow, University of WA

After training as a research psychologist at the University of Western Australia and lecturing in a number of Australian universities, Dr Lawrence entered politics in 1986, serving at both State and Federal levels for 21 years. She was at various times W.A Minister for Education and Aboriginal affairs and was the first woman Premier and Treasurer of a State government. She shifted to Federal politics in 1994 when she was elected as the Member for Fremantle and was appointed Minister for Health and Human Services and Minister assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women. She has held various portfolios in Opposition, including Indigenous Affairs, Environment, Industry and Innovation and was elected national President of the Labor Party in 2004. She retired from politics in 2007. She is now a Professorial Fellow at the University of Western Australia where she is working to establish a centre to research the forces driving significant social change in key areas of contemporary challenge as well as exploring our reactions to that change. The centre will also seek to expose for public discussion the processes most likely to achieve social change where that is a desired objective.

Professor Gavin Brown AO - Inaugural Director, Royal Institution of Australia

Gavin Moodie - Principal Policy Adviser, RMIT

Kerry O'Brien - Presenter '7.30 Report' ABC1

Professor Alison Tierney - Editor in Chief, Journal of Advanced Nursing

Richard Aedy - Presenter 'Life Matters' ABC Radio National

Dr Jo Tiddy - JTCT Consultants

Professor Catharine Lumby - Director, Journalism & Media Research Centre, University of NSW

Rowan Callick - Asia-Pacific Editor, The Australian