Australian Prospect Contributors
Don Aitkin was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Canberra from 1991 to 2002 and has a long-standing interest in policy studies and practice relevant to higher education and research. His intellectual interests centre on history, political science, music and literature.
Waubin Richard Aken is an elder of the Kaurareg nation. He is Chairman of Balkanu - Cape York Economic Development Corporation.
Greg Barns is a Hobart based writer and author of What’s Wrong with the Liberal Party? Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Andrew Bartlett is the leader of the Australian Democrats.
Peter Botsman is the chief editor and managing director of Australian Prospect. He has led public policy research institutes since 1988 including the Evatt Foundation, the Brisbane Institute and the Whitlam Institute. For online books and papers produced by Peter Botsman got to his working papers site
Greg Bourne is CEO WWF-Australia.
He is also a Member of the CSIRO Sector Advisory Council to the Natural Resource Management and Environment Sector, a Member of the National Environmental Education Council, Chair of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Reference Group and a member of the Victorian Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability’s Reference Group. He is a recipient of the Centenary Medal for services to the environment.
Phillip Boulten SC practices at the NSW Bar in Sydney. He
specialises in criminal law. He is the Convenor of the NSW Criminal Defence Lawyers Association and, in that capacity, has made a number of submissions to parliamentary committees concerning amendments to the ASIO Act and the creation of new terrorism offences in the Commonwealth Criminal Code. He is currently representing a number of people who have been investigated and charged in relation to terrorism offences.
Susan Brown is
International Policy Analyst, WWF International, Switzerland. Email: sbrown@wwfint.org
Fred Chaney is currently a member of the board of Reconciliation Australia, a former veteran liberal parliamentarian and all round fighter for the public good!
Anis Chowdhury is Professor, School of Economics, University of Western Sydney, and a founding editor of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy [Routledge, London and New York]
Richard Curtain is the principal consultant of Curtain consulting a public policy consultancy company established in 1993.
Nic Frances completed "Value-Based Economics" while working at the Brotherhood of St Laurence. He is now Executive Director of Easy Being Greena for-profit social and environmental purpose organisation. He is also a Director of Spirited Sustainable Enterprise Consulting. He is recognised by the World Economic Forum as one of the world's leading social entrepreneurs.
Daniel Donahoo is a Fellow at OzProspect, a non-partisan, public policy think tank.
Janina Gawler is a former CEO of the Australian National Training Authority. She is the Managing Director of consulting firm Co-Operative Change, which specialises in providing training and employment advice to public companies, NGOs and government.
Wilfred (Willie) Gordon is a Nugal-warra, from the Guugu Yimithirr nation. The word warra means your spirit’s place of belonging, or where your spirit began. Wilfred is a member of the Cooktown Chamber of Commerce and his Guurrbi Tours' are widely respected for their cultural and spiritual education. To make a reservation for a Guurrbi experience call Scott 61-7-4069 5166
Olle Hammarström is the Chairman of Polyproject Sweden a company that makes water treatment equipment mainly sand filters and sedimentation tanks, that are used in the treatment of industrial waste water. Polyproject’s biggest market is cleaning
scrubber water from the cleaning of fumes from garbage incineration or coal fired power plants.
Olle is also a Member of the
Board of Stockholm Economic Development
Agency, he holds an MBA and has worked
with the Departments of Industry and
Labour Market of the Swedish government
and as a mediator between employers and
unions.
Ian Hunter is an Australian Professorial Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland.
Jeff Jackson is majoring in Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, Los Angeles and will be interning with the United States Mission to the United Nations later in 2005.
Jacqueline James completed a Diploma in Music in 2002 and graduated in a Bachelor of Laws with Honours from James Cook University this year. She received the Marylyn Mayo Medal for her Honours thesis (which this article is based upon). Jacqueline has worked as a legal consultant to Cape York Indigenous leader, Noel Pearson, and his organisation, Cape York Partnerships.
Iyanatul Islam is Professor, Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University and a founding editor of the Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy [Routledge, London and New York].
Milton James has had many years of experience working with indigenous young people. He is a legend on Cape York Peninsula and on Torres Strait and is the leader of the Cape York Institute Youth Strategy and the Boys from the Bush program.
Norman Thompson is a retired academic and volunteer worker for Greens NSW MLC Lee Rhiannon. Prior to retirement he held positions at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, University of Cambridge in England and Macquarie University in Sydney.
Ros Kidd is a freelance historian. Her testimony to the 1996 HREOC Inquiry into underpayment of wages to Aboriginal employees on Queensland reserves (the Palm Island Inquiry) demolished the Crown’s case, ultimately leading to reparations of $7000 to each claimant, a total payout nearing $40 million. Her work was also cited by the Premier of Queensland in his current offer of $55.6 million to settle claims for ‘Stolen Wages’. Ros has worked for the Indigenous Crime Taskforce, the Stolen Children Inquiry, the Forde Inquiry into Abuse of Children in State Institutions, the Cape York Justice Study, and the Bringing Them Home Oral History Project. She provides evidence in support of Native Title claims. She is a member of AIATSIS; Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Griffith University; Member at Large, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) (National); Patron, ANTaR (Queensland); Member, Professional Historians Association (Queensland) Inc; Member, Royal Historical Society of Queensland. For more, contact Ros Kidd www.linksdisk.com/roskidd
Lara Kostakidis-Lianos is a graduate law student at the University of NSW. She completed an Arts degree in Modern History at the University of Sydney in 2001, writing a thesis on mandatory sentencing in the Northern Territory. Lara is also working on a Native Title Representative Body Professional
Development Program, hosted by the Castan Centre at Monash University with the support of UNSW Law School.
Professor Marcia Langton is one of Australia's leading authorities on contemporary social issues in Aboriginal affairs. Marcia was appointed Professor of Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne in 2000. An Arts graduate of the ANU with first-class honours in anthropology, Marcia is completing a doctoral thesis in the Department of Geography at Macquarie University. On her appointment to the University, Marcia chose to be located in SAGES, and her current teaching commitment includes three undergraduate Geography subjects - Place and Possession, Native Title and the Garma Fieldtrip. Marcia was named joint winner (with Larissa Behrendt of the University of Technology, Sydney) of the inaugural Neville Bonner Award for Indigenous Teacher of the Year in 2002. The award recognised outstanding work by Indigenous university teachers.
Marcia has many years experience working as an anthropologist in Indigenous affairs with land councils, the Queensland government, commissions and universities. Marcia has been a member of the Centre for Aboriginal Reconciliation, serving on the Legal and Cultural Issues Sub-Committee, Director of the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management and has acted as a consultant to the Northern Land Council and the Australian Film Commission. Marcia's work in anthropology and the advocacy of Aboriginal rights was recognised in 1993 when she was made a member of the Order of Australia.
Marcia has published extensively on Aboriginal affairs issues including land, resource, and social impact issues, indigenous dispute processing, policing and substance abuse, gender, identity processing, art, film, and cultural studies.
Peter McEntee is the Executive Officer of the Kimberley Aboriginal Pastoralists Association, based in Broome WA. He has worked closely with Indigenous pastoralists in the Kimberley since 1987 and is also involved in the delivery of management skills training through the course “Station Business” which he developed in 1998.
Bill Mitchell is one of the most capable and creative economic thinkers in contemporary Australia. He occupies a Professorship at the Centre of Full Employment and Equity, University of Newcastle.
Gerhardt Pearson is Executive Director, Balkanu Cape York Development Corporation and Chairman of the Indigenous Stock Exchange. Gerhardt is a Bama Bagaarrmugu of the Guuguwarrra Nation from Kalpowa and Jeanie River area. The Lama Lama refer to his group as the Mbarimakarranma or people from the little Red Flying Fox area.
Noel Pearson is Director of The Cape York Institute For Policy And Leadership. Noel is a history and law graduate of the University of Sydney. Noel is a Bama Bagaarrmugu of the Guuguwarrra Nation from Kalpowa and Jeanie River area. The Lama Lama refer to his group as the Mbarimakarranma or people from the little Red Flying Fox area.
Robert Reich is one of the founders of American Prospect, former US Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and currently Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy at Brandeis University and its Heller Graduate School.
Lee Rhiannon, Greens member of the NSW Legislative Council, has worked in the social justice and environment movement for three decades. She is a qualified zoologist and botanist. Prior to commencing fulltime work with the Greens in 1998, she was the Director of AID/WATCH, coordinator of the NSW Coalition for Gun Control and member of the Women’s Advisory Council to the NSW Government.
Margaret Thornton is Professor of Law & Legal Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne
Neil Watson long career as a workplace change guru was inspired by, Fred Emery, the great Australian social scientist who was at the heart of the thinking that led to the development of socio-technical systems and Participative Democracy.