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Emeritus Professor Laksiri Jayasuriya AM, |
Emeritus Professor Laksiri Jayasuriya AM,
Hon. Senior Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
Presentation Title: Australian Multiculturalsim in Crisis. Whereto from here?
Emeritus Professor Laksiri (Laki) Jayasuriya, A.M., is currently Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Discipline of Social Work and Social Policy, in the School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia. He graduated from the University of Sydney in 1954 and obtained his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. He has written widely and published in scholarly journals in the fields of social policy, multiculturalism, and ethnic affairs. Until his retirement in 1992, he held the Foundation Chair of Social Work and Social Administration at the University of Western Australia. In addition to his academic appointments and responsibilities, he has been involved in a range of community activities, especially in the field of social policy, welfare, ethnic affairs, and development assistance. He has an extensive record of involvement in public affairs since 1972, and has played a major role in policy developments relating to multiculturalism and ethnic affairs in Australia both state and national levels. He has served on numerous government bodies and committees of inquiry and been a policy advisor to many governments.
Lillian Holt
University of Melbourne Fellow
Presentation Title: Diversity: A Conversation for Country and Community
Lillian Holt was appointed a University of Melbourne Fellow in 2003. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Centre for Indigenous Education, University of Melbourne.
She has a BA with majors in English and Journalism (University of Queensland) and an MA from the University of Northern Colorado, USA. Currently, she is enrolled in a PhD at Melbourne University. The topic is: Aboriginal Humour
Lillian has travelled extensively, both withinin Australia and overseas and has also spoken at a diverse range of conferences, nationally and internationally.
Her substantive position before coming to take up her appointment(s) at Melbourne University, was Principal of Tauondi (pronounced Town-dee) which was an Aboriginal Community College in Port Adelaide. She worked there for sixteen years, the last seven as the first Aboriginal Principal.
Lillian’s passionate interests (as opposed to hobbies) are: People and Words! She regards her best asset to be her humour and is passionately interested in the healing of race relations in Australia.
The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RRD
Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia
Presentation Title: Diverse Communities and the Family Court of Australia
The Hon Justice Alastair B. Nicholson was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne which he attended from 1946 to 1955. He studied law at Melbourne University and graduated in 1960. His Honour signed the Roll of Counsel of the Victorian Bar in 1963. He practised extensively in all jurisdictions at the Bar including general common law, family law, crime, town planning, local government and administrative law and also appeared as counsel in a number of public inquiries. His Honour was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1982. In February 1988 his Honour was appointed Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia and a Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. He chaired the 2nd World Congress on Family Law and the Rights of Children and Youth held in San Francisco USA in June 1997 at which time he was appointed President of the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts. His Honour has, since 1984, been the Chairman of the ACSO (Australian Community Support Organisation), which is a charitable organisation devoted to the provision of care, accommodation and counselling to ex prisoners of both sexes. He is currently a patron of the Child Care and Family Support Network and the Melbourne Wildlife Sanctuary Project, a member of the advisory committee of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation and Chair of the Coalition Against Bullying supported by that organisation.
Professor Mary Kalantzis
Dean, Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services, RMIT University
Professor Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University and President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. She has been a part time Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee and a member of the Australia Council’s Community Cultural Development Board. She is the author or co-author of a number of books, including: A Place in the Sun: Re-Creating the Australian Way of Life, Harper Collins, Sydney, 2000; Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures, Routledge, London, 2000 and Productive Diversity, Pluto Press, Sydney, 1997.
Dr Sev Ozdowski
Human Rights Commissioner & Disability Discrimination Commissioner
Until his appointment as Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Sev Ozdowski OAM was chief executive of South Australia's Office of Multicultural and International Affairs. Dr Ozdowski has a long-term commitment to human rights and his relationship with the Human Rights Commission dates back to the original Commission of the early 1980s. He is the author of many papers on sociology of law, human rights, immigration and multiculturalism. He has held senior positions in the Federal portfolios of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Attorney-General's and Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has also worked as Secretary of the Human Rights Commission inquiry into the Migration Act 1958 and for the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. Dr Ozdowski has a Master of Laws and Master of Arts in Sociology from Poznan University, Poland, and a PhD in Sociology of Law from the University of New England, Armidale, NSW.
Clarence Da Gama Pinto
Program Director - Leadership, Mt Eliza Business School
Presentation Title: Diversity, Power and Privilege in an Australian context
Clarence Da Gama Pinto is a Program Director at Mt Eliza Business School specialising in leadership development for business executives. His ancestors hail from the former Portuguese colony of Goa, but was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He was educated in Kenya, India, and the UK, Clarence has lived in London and in parts of China for most of his adult life, before immigrating to Australia in 1988. A former researcher and journalist, he has travelled widely and specialised in doing business in Europe, North East and South East Asia. He directed the Business School's first executive education diversity program - "Leading Work Place Diversity" and has a keen research interest in global leadership competencies, cross-cultural management and international affairs. He continues to work with some of Australia's blue-chip companies such as Macquarie Bank, the ASX, Honda and Holden. He describes himself as "a cosmopolitan trying to find a place in this world!"
Pat Quirke-Parry
Head of Sales, SBS
Pat Quirke-Parry was appointed Head of Sales of SBS in February 1996. As such she is responsible for all major sources of revenue (except Government) including TV and Radio advertising, sponsorship, product and program merchandising and for some of the Brand Marketing of SBS as a whole.
With over thirty years experience in Commercial television Pat Quirke-Parry had previously worked as Senior Vice President (Marketing) for the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation as it re-positioned and re-launched all three of its television stations in readiness for Corporatisation as the Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) and TV12, in October 1994. Each station had a distinctly different profile - one Chinese, News and Entertainment, one English, News and Entertainment and the third - multi-cultural, multilingual and special interest. All three stations were commercialised to one extent or another.
Her role at SBS is, she says, one of the most challenging and interesting of her whole career - "there are many multi-cultural broadcasters in the world but one that broadcasts in 68 languages each week and telecasts each month in at least 60 is truly unique".
Hurriyet Babacan
Executive Director, Women's Policy and Community Outcomes Branch, Community Engagement Division, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Queensland
Presentation Title: Diversity: Social Exclusion Or Inclusion?
Hurriyet Babacan currently holds the position of Executive Director of Multicultural Affairs Queensland, Office for Women and Community Outcomes Branch in the Community Engagement Division, Department of Premier and Cabinet. Prior to this appointment, Hurriyet was the Head of Social and Community Studies at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Hurriyet migrated to Australia from Turkey as an adolescent and has first hand experience of being a migrant and settling in Australia without English language skills. She has a Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Arts in Social Policy, Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and is about to submit her PhD. Hurriyet has extensive work experience in areas of social policy, community development and research. Over the last 20 years she has worked as a social worker, academic public servant, researcher and trainer in a number of states. Hurriyet has extensive research and scholarship experience, particularly in relation to research and publications on multiculturalism, racism, cultural diversity and community development. She has been involved in numerous grass roots community agencies including voluntary work non-government organisations, community networks and social movements.
Debra Dodgson
National Manager, Workforce Diversity, Australia Post
Debra started her career with the Commonwealth Public Service where she held a number of positions prior to joining Australia Post. Debra joined Australia Post in 1987 and worked in the Ministerial Liaison Unit where she was involved in complaint management for Ministerial enquiries and Government relations. In 1997, Debra commenced in the newly created position of Grievance Consultant with the Diversity Unit of the Victoria/Tasmania administration of Australia Post. Debra was responsible for harassment awareness training and management of harassment and discrimination matters. As Manager Diversity (Vic/Tas), Debra had overall responsibility for implementation and management of Australia Post's Workforce Diversity strategy in an operational, business focused environment. Key initiatives included Indigenous Employment Strategy, development training for women, formal accreditation for Harassment Contact Officers and harassment awareness training. Debra commenced her current role as Australia Post's National Manager, Workforce Diversity, in January 2003 where she is responsible for National strategic policy development and advice on all Diversity issues.
Neil Edwards
Executive Chairman, Port of Melbourne Corporation
Presentation Title: Productive Diversity - A Decade On.
Neil Edwards was appointed Executive Chairman of the Port of Melbourne Corporation in March 2003.
From 1999 to March 2003, Neil was Secretary of the Dept of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development. IIRD is the Victorian Government's lead economic development agency with responsibilities for business, science, industrial relations, tourism and regional development. Neil joined the Victorian Government in 1996 as Executive Director, State Development Policy.
His previous career was with the Commonwealth public service - most recently as First Assistant Secretary in the then Department of Industry, Science and Tourism. The majority of his Commonwealth public service career was with the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, where he held several senior executive positions, including that of Head of Multicultural Affairs, in social and cultural policy, and in corporate management. His other responsibilities in Prime Minister and Cabinet related to administrative law and to the parliament and cabinet, and to international, economic development and telecommunications policy matters.
Professor Joe Camilleri
Professor of International Studies, Latrobe University
Joseph Camilleri is Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University. He has written a number of important books on international relations, Australian foreign policy, international peace and security, human rights, the United Nations, and the Asia-Pacific region. His most recent books include: - States, Markets and Civil Society in Asia Pacific (Edward Elgar 2000) - To be followed later this year by Regionalism in the New Asia Pacific Order (Edward Elgar 2003) - Edited Religion and Culture in Asia Pacific: Violence or Healing? (Vista 2001) - Co-edited Democratizing Global Governance (Palgrave Macmillan 2002). Professor Camilleri has been actively involved on issues of human rights, cultural and religious dialogue, development, environment, and security. He has given evidence to several government enquiries, and participated in numerous national and international conferences. He is a well-known commentator and lecturer on social and political affairs, the recipient of St Michael’s Award for distinguished service to the community, and President of the Christian peace movement, Pax Christi. He is currently engaged on a major project on inter-civilisational dialogue.