TJ RYAN FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of Bruce Hawker Consulting
Bruce Hawker is the Managing Director of Bruce Hawker Consulting. For the last forty years he has worked at the highest levels of government and politics in Australia. After graduating from the University of Queensland in 1977 with a BA in Government, he moved to Sydney to study law. Thereafter he served as a ministerial adviser to the NSW Attorney-General in the Wran Government and later as Chief of Staff to Opposition Leader and later Premier, Bob Carr. In 1997, he established Hawker Britton, Australia's leading campaign and government relations firm. Bruce has worked on more than forty political campaigns in Australia and abroad, including the elections of Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Bob Carr, Peter Beattie, Anna Bligh, Steve Bracks, Jim Bacon, Mike Rann, Geoff Gallop and Clare Martin. Bruce is a published author, public speaker, documentary maker and regular commentator in the electronic and print media.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Researcher
- Professor
Professor David Brereton has an MA and PhD in Political Science from Stanford University. Formerly Director, Research and Prevention, Criminal Justice Commission, he was appointed as the foundation Director of the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining (CSRM) at the University of Queensland in late 2001. He held this position until mid-2012. During his tenure, he built CSRM into a world-leading centre of research expertise on the social challenges facing the mining and minerals sector. He has now taken on the role of Deputy Director of Research Integration in the CSRM's parent body, the Sustainable Minerals Institute, with responsibility for driving cross-disciplinary initiatives to improve the sustainability performance of the minerals industry.
In addition to a strong record of engagement with the Australian mining industry, Professor Brereton has worked as a researcher and advisor in Latin America, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, The Philippines, Solomon Islands and Mongolia. Organisations he has undertaken work for include: The World Bank, IFC, the Australian Government, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Anglo American, Newmont Mining, Barrick Gold, Xstrata, Newcrest Mining, MMG Limited, BG Group, Anglo Gold Ashanti, the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and the Minerals Council of Australia. Amongst other things, he is lead author of the ICMM's Good Practice Guide on Indigenous Peoples and Mining and a guidance document on Community Development Agreements, prepared for the World Bank.
Professor Brereton's current areas of research interest encompass: the implementation of sustainable development principles in the minerals industry; the development and application of sustainability indicators; indigenous peoples and mining; regulatory policy and practice relating to the minerals industry; understanding and managing the cumulative impacts of resource development; and the social impacts of new technologies in the mining industry.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Deputy Director, Centre for Decent Work and Industry Queensland University of Technology
Deanna Grant-Smith holds a PhD in public consultation and policy analysis and is Deputy Director of the Centre for Decent Work and Industry at the Queensland University of Technology. She has more than 20 years of experience conducting research and providing policy and strategy advice across the areas of environmental policy, participatory planning, community engagement, and organisational strategy and development. Deanna has extensive experience in developing and delivering consultative approaches for a range of issues including transport and infrastructure planning, and environmental policy review, and has conducted and supervised a range of research activities to inform strategic evidence-based decision-making. Within a government setting these include research into: boating activity in high growth areas; Indigenous boating safety; transport needs and disadvantage; and risk management approaches in regulatory regimes. Deanna currently researches stakeholder engagement with a focus on marginalised or disadvantaged groups, particularly young people and women, and cultural and political engagements with sustainability particularly those associated with waste. She also explores the potential for exploitation and exclusion presented by unpaid work and emerging forms of unpaid and unwaged work.
Chris Salisbury has a doctorate in Political History from the University of Queensland, conferred in 2013 after his PhD thesis examined the policy history of the Beattie government's 'Smart State' strategy. Chris held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Centre for the Government of Queensland at the University of Queensland from 2013-15, and from 2009-15 was involved in the Centre's 'Queensland Speaks' oral history project as researcher and interviewer. Since 2014 he has taught Australian history at the University of Queensland, and has lately researched under-embargo Cabinet Minutes for Queensland State Archives prior to the documents' public release. Chris has published numerous journal articles and commentaries on Queensland politics and history.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Fellow
Dr Erin O'Brien is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. Her research examines political activism, advocacy, and participation with a focus on political consumerism. Dr O'Brien's current research examines the political mobilisation of consumers, shareholders and investors on a range of social justice issues including modern slavery and environmental degradation. Her Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (2021-2024) titled 'Australian civil society combating modern slavery with ethical consumerism' examines the shift in the framing of responsibility between the state, civil society, and corporate actors, and the norm adoption of ethical consumerism as a solution to complex multi-jurisdictional issues. Dr O'Brien is concerned with studying the interplay between activists and the state in the construction of knowledge and formation of policy, with research interests in the areas of political activism, advocacy and resistance; political consumerism, shareholder activism, ethical consumption; tactics and influence of political interest groups; political narrative and storytelling; and modern slavery and human trafficking.
Dr Heather Douglas is a social scientist interested in social change processes. Her career spans health, business, public policy, rural and community development in New South Wales, ACT, Queensland, Victoria and the World Health Organisation in Geneva. After completing her PhD on social business, she worked as an academic in Melbourne before returning to Brisbane.
Heather sits on the Editorial Advisory Board for several academic journals and has been a board member of research and academic agencies. She is a research associate with the University of the South Pacific, and the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre at Massey University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer in Communication and Public Relations
Dr John Harrison brings several decades of professional practice in journalism and communication to his work at the University of Queensland. He has worked in print, radio and television as a journalist, editor and producer, and has won awards for his journalism. He teaches both journalism and professional communication, and has pioneered the use of service learning project teams in the communication program. An award winning university teacher, John Harrison is recognized for his innovative teaching practice, and for his teaching and research collaboration with colleagues in science, medicine and engineering.
Dr Linda Colley is based on the Brisbane campus and teaches in HRM/ Strategic Management. She brings extensive practical experience from her career in HRM and industrial relations in the Queensland public service.
Her research builds on this career, with her PhD examining Queensland public service employment from 1859 to 1999, and her UQ Postdoctoral fellowship examining workforce planning in the contemporary Queensland public service. She has published on topics such as merit, tenure, job security, redundancy, gender and age at work, public management reform, privatisation, and the effects of austerity measure on public employment.
Linda is active in two international networks, as co-convenor of a Permanent Special Interest Group on ‘Public Servants at Work' within the International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM), and convenor of a stream on ‘Women in later working life' at the 2014 Gender Work and Organization (GWO) conference.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University
Dr Liz van Acker is a Senior Lecturer, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith Business School. She has an Honours degree from the School of Humanities at Griffith University and a PhD from the Department of Government at the University of Queensland. She was one of the Chief Investigators of a project funded by an Australian Learning and Teaching Grant (2010-2012). This project provided a national study of capstone subjects. Her research interests include innovation and industry policy, relationship support programs and government policies, gender and politics and service delivery by the third sector.
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- OAM Is a Well Respected Ngugi Elder from Mulgumpin in Quandamooka, South East Que
Dr Robert Anderson OAM is a well respected Ngugi Elder from Mulgumpin in Quandamooka, South East Queensland and currently lives in Brisbane. Since Native Title for the for Quandamooka Nation was recognised on the 4th July 2011 by the High Court of Australia, he has been a Family Representative on the prescribed body corporate, Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, QYAC, established to progress the native title interests of the Quandamooka Peoples. He is well known for both striving to progress and protect the rights of workers through the trade union movement and for his efforts to maintain and promote the reconciliation process as an Aboriginal Elder and currently as a member and delegate of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples.. Known as Uncle Bob, he served as a trade union delegate and State Organiser for the Building Workers Industrial Union from 1951 to 1978 and has been recognised as an Honorary Member of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union.
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Executive Director
Dr Mary Crawford was a high school teacher for 20 years during which time she taught in Australia, UK and Cyprus. In 1987 she was elected to the House of Representatives as the MP for Forde and remained there as a member of the government until 1996. During her time in the Australian Parliament she led the Crawford Committee which developed and implemented a National Policy on Child Care and established the Child Care Accreditation Council. She was instrumental in ensuring child care centres became part of tertiary institutions in Australia on University and TAFE campuses. Dr Crawford was also responsible for the ‘Sticks and Stones' Report which examined violence in schools and sought to establish a National policy. Her work also led to the implementation of the National JET (Jobs, Education, and Training) scheme for women re-entering the workforce and she developed and implemented the first ‘women only' job clubs in Australia. These gave individual case workers for women entering or re-entering the workforce. From 1994-1996 she was also the Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister with responsibility for Local Government. In 1997 Dr Crawford was employed at Queensland University of Technology as a Lecturer in Government/Business relations in the School of Management within the Faculty of Business. She developed and redesigned courses for students in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes. She also taught for QUT in China, in both Suzhou and Hong Kong. Dr Crawford was awarded her PhD in 2008 for work on ‘Gender and the Australian Parliament' where she explored the way in which the Australian parliament is gendered as male but much of its processes and practices remain hidden. In January 2020 she was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to women, and to the people and Parliament of Australia. Dr Crawford was appointed Executive Director of the TJ Ryan Foundation in April 2017, succeeding Professor Roger Scott.
Job Titles:
- Health Organiser, Together Queensland
Giovanni (Gianni) Sottile is a union official, and has worked on climate and energy policy in Queensland. As Convener of the Labor Environment Action Network for 5 years, Gianni led campaigns within the ALP which won the creation of Clean Co, a publicly owned renewable energy generator with $2 billion dollars of state money to invest in new projects. As a union official, he has led strategy to organise low-paid workers in growing sectors of the economy, including community pharmacy. Gianni has experience on the management committee of several organisations, and has been involved in training and adult education for political and workers' campaigns. He has a Bachelor of Arts with 1st Class Honours in History from the University of Queensland.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Public Administration
John Halligan is Professor of Public Administration, Faculty of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia. His research interests are comparative public management and governance, specifically public sector reform, performance management and government institutions. He specialises in the Anglophone countries of Australia and New Zealand, and for comparative purposes, Canada and the United Kingdom. Current studies are Corporate Governance in the Public Sector, Performance Management, and a comparative analysis of public management.
Professor Halligan is project director of a major ARC research project on Whole of Government in the Australian Public Sector. His main interests in the project are: whole of government as an approach to public sector management coordination in government, including the impact of new experiments role of central agencies in steering and coordinating public sector change (including the contribution of whole of government to cultural change).
Professor Halligan has held academic appointments at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, and visiting positions at various institutions including Georgetown University (Washington DC), Australian National University, Catholic University of Leuven and the Victoria University of Wellington.
Kieran Gregory is a Sessional Academic with the Queensland University of Technology's Business School. Kieran has extensive public sector experience across Queensland and New South Wales, working in a wide range of policy related roles. He is particularly interested in integrity related issues within the public sector. Kieran holds a Bachelor of Business (with Distinction) and a Master of Business (Research). He has published on areas including public policy, stakeholder engagement and sustainability.
Job Titles:
- Social Science Researcher and Research Manager
Professor Laurie Buys is an experienced social science researcher and research manager, who frequently collaborates with scientists from various disciplinary backgrounds on complex research initiatives.
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology
- Emeritus Professor
Emeritus Professor Mary Sheehan retired from the directorship of CARRS-Q on 30 June 2008, but continues her research and postgraduate mentoring and activities at the Centre. Professor Sheehan's specific area of research interest is the application of social psychological theory to educational and rehabilitation initiatives to enhance community road safety, particularly the safety of young people, and in reducing the incidence of drink driving. This has resulted in some of CARRS-Q's most successful and innovative road safety programs such as: the development of the seminal Under the Limit (UTL) Drink Driving Rehabilitation Program a trial of alcohol ignition interlocks with high-risk Queensland drink drivers (UTL 2) the Rural and Remote Road Safety Research project in North Queensland the Skills for Preventing Injury in Youth (SPIY) school-based first aid and peer protection program. Mary has received international recognition for her work in alcohol, drugs and traffic safety through ministerial and executive appointments such as the International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic Safety (ICADTS) and the United States Academy of Science Transportation Research Board (TRB). She is a foundation member of the Australian College of Road Safety (ACRS), and was awarded a Fellowship in 2000 for her contribution and commitment to road safety. Professor Sheehan was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for service to education and to public health through research work into the causes and prevention of road, work and social accidents in Australia, and through the development of community awareness programs raising the level of debate in the area.
Mr Clem Campbell was a Labor member of the Parliament of Queensland from 1983 to 1998. Clem Campbell obtained a Bachelor of Agricultural degree and later worked as a Research and Regional Economist with the Queensland Department of Primary Industries. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Bundaberg at the 1983 election, and held the seat until the 1998 election. He served as a member of various Parliamentary Committees during the term of the Goss Labor government.
After he retired from Parliament, Clem Campbell joined the staff of Griffith University. In 2008 he became the founding chairman of Green Cross Australia and current chair of Earth Charter Australia. He is also a director with Football Queensland.
In 2013, Clem Campbell became the United Nations Association of Australia Queensland President.
Job Titles:
- Formerly Commissioner for Public Employment in the Northern Territory
Mr David Hawkes was Commissioner for Public Employment in the Northern Territory for 13 years. He was awarded an Institute of Public Administration of Australia (IPAA) National Fellowship in 1994. With over 30 years experience at senior executive levels, David Hawkes made a significant contribution to Northern Territory public administration.
Trevor Berrill is an award winning, private consultant in sustainable energy (SE). He has worked in both renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) for over 30 years, including:
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate at Connexity Associates
Christine Flynn is an Associate at Connexity Associates. She has held senior executive roles in State and Commonwealth public services and is a highly experienced consultant, facilitator and coach. An organisational development expert, Christine is experienced in organisational diagnostics and dynamics, interventions and development, change management, risk management with experience in national and international clients. She works successfully with Chief Executives and their teams to improve organisational and individual performance. She is an experienced OD practitioner and an experienced board chair and director. She is an accredited AICD course facilitator. Christine is undertaking postgraduate research in the field of leadership and change management.
External member, Audit and Risk Committee,Queensland Audit Office (November 2011 - present); Principal Consultant, Christine Flynn Consulting (September 2006 - present); Chair, Queensland Credit Union Board (2007 - present - first appointed as a Director in 2001); General Manager, Programs, Australian Public Service (January 2004 - June 2006) Director, Organisational Development, Queensland Public Service (1988 - 2003).
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law Queensland University of Technology
- AM Is Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Techn
Professor Tom Cochrane AM is Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law at the Queensland University of Technology where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) until retirement at the end of 2013. He serves on a number of Boards and projects including the Library Board of Queensland, Queensland Poetry, the Australian Digital Alliance and others. He was co-leader of the Creative Commons Project for which QUT was the institutional leader for Australia. This, together with other open access initiatives, signals Tom's long-standing commitment to access to knowledge, and to research outputs worldwide. His academic research in earlier years focused on Queensland in the time of Premiers Ryan and Theodore.
Job Titles:
- Project Officer
- Secretary
- Treasurer
Veronica is a Project Officer in the School of Psychology and Counselling at the Queensland University of Technology