Professor Peter Shergold AC began his appointment as the Chancellor of the University of Western Sydney on 1 January 2011.
After studying in the UK and the USA, culminating in a PhD from the London School of Economics, he accepted an academic appointment at the University of NSW in 1972 and became Head of the Department of Economic History in 1985.
He has a distinguished career in the Australian Public Service, having established the Office of Multicultural Affairs. He went on to head the Commonwealth agencies responsible for Indigenous Affairs, Employment, Workplace Relations, Education, Science and Training. He was Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for five years from 2003.
Professor Shergold serves on the Boards of AMP and Corrs Chambers Westgarth. He chairs the National Centre for Vocational Education Research, is actively involved in the non-profit sector serving on the Boards of the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence and the General Sir John Monash Foundation. He is the Macquarie Group Foundation Professor at the Centre for Social Impact. More recently Premier Barry O’Farrell has appointed Professor Shergold to be the Chair of a new NSW Public Service Board.
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Building Partnerships: the view from Western Australia
Linda is the inaugural Chair of the Federal Government’s Not-For-Profit Sector Reform Council. The Reform Council was established in December 2010 and is made up of 12 eminent persons from the not-for-profit sector and is tasked with driving and co-coordinating the government’s not-for-profit reform agenda.
Linda is a former Queensland Attorney-General and State Member of the Queensland Parliament. Since retiring from State politics Linda has continued her passion for supporting the community through her role as a Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies based at QUT. Her work at the Centre includes co-coordinating a Nonprofit Model Law project which aims to have the nonprofit sector itself, develop a set of model laws for its regulatory environment.
Linda also volunteers her time by serving as a Director on the Boards of The Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation, Hockey Queensland and Coast2Bay Housing Group (a nfp social and affordable housing company).
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Welcome remarks from the Chair
Progress around Not-for-Profit Sector Reform
Maree Walk has recently been appointed Chief Executive of Community Services, Australia’s largest child protection agency.
She has a background in social work and more than 25 years experience working in the community services sector, including front line child protection and management roles within government and non-government organisations.
Prior to joining Community Services, Maree spent 11 years at The Benevolent Society where she oversaw child and family work and managed the organisation’s programs and operations. This included successfully extending the agency’s work into Queensland and expanding the organisation’s services regionally in NSW.
Maree has served on a number of boards and committees including, from its inception, the Early Learning Reference Group of GoodStart and the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies. She also served on the board of the Child and Family Welfare Association of Australia. Maree has been involved in numerous children’s advocacy-related initiatives state-wide and nationally including Keep Them Safe, the Coalition for Children in Care and numerous advocacy campaigns.
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Towards strong government/not-for-profit partnerships in NSW
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Building partnerships to achieve positive social outcomes
As governments increasingly look to not-for-profits for service delivery, and as attention turns to place-based local solutions, building partnerships between not-for-profits and government has become a top priority.
True partnerships are the key to ensuring not-for-profits are empowered to do what they do best. They are, in a nutshell, crucial to the achievement of positive social outcomes.
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