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Judges for CLW Leadership Achievement Award

From 2006-2009

2009 Leadership Achievement Award’s Panel of Judges  

Karen Buczynski

Karen Buczynski-Lee, Filmaker and Writer

Karen Buczynski-Lee is a filmmaker having graduated from Swinburne Film and TV school in 1985.  She is now in her second year of a Masters of Film and TV at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.  She is passionate about reclaiming the history of Australian women in film.  Her current project is a film about the life, times, political, cultural, economic and legal legacy of Vida Goldstein.  Entitled When Vida Met The President this film weaves the story of the achievements of Vida Goldstein against the backdrop of her family drama with her father joining the ‘anti suffragists’.  Vida’s politics was most definitely personal. 

 In-between submitting to the ABC and writing with Dr Jocelynne Scutt over nine years Karen Buczynski-Lee has worked as a researcher, a political You tube writer and director, a conference consultant and a concept person for advertising and business articles. Intermittently she publishes critiques and articles; her most recent being The Vote That Shook The Nation.  She lives in the hope that she will soon see fifty percent of women within parliament and fifty percent of women within the Australian Broadcasting Cooperation, particularly in leadership roles.

Dr  Lynette  Dumble,  Medical Scientist, Founder  and Director  of  Global  Sisterhood  Network

Lynette Dumble

 

 

 

 

Dr. Lynette J. Dumble PhD, MSc, is a feminist medical and environmental scientist and the founder and international co-ordinator of the Global Sisterhood Network, an alliance of feminists from around the world who are working together to improve women's lives. Her past academic appointments include: senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne's Department of Surgery at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Department of History and Philosophy of Science; visiting medical scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Tulsa and University of Illinois in Chicago; and visiting professor of surgery at the University of Texas in Houston. 

She is a member of the Boston-based Global Committee on Women, Population and Environment, and the Amsterdam-based Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights, a past state president of the Australian Federation of University Women and University College at the University of Melbourne, and is active in several movements challenging the assumptions of globalization, biotechnology, and militarism in relation to women's livelihoods, public health and food security.

She has a major interest in women's health, and is the author of "Medical Misogyny" to be released by Zed Books London in March 2004. She has also authored published more than 500 articles in medical, scientific, environmental and political journals and in the print and electronic media, on diverse subjects ranging from transplantation immunobiology, biotechnology, and medical ethics, to the cultural, political, scientific and social discrimination against females from conception to grave. 

Christine Nixon, Chief  Police Commissioner, Victoria Police

Chrisitne Nixon

 

 

 

 

 

Ms Nixon is the Chief  Commissioner of Victoria Police, an organisation of 14,000 staff and an annual budget of $1.6 billion operating out of 550 work locations, including 330 police stations, throughout the state.   Ms Nixon commenced working with Victoria Police on 23rd April 2001, after serving with the New South Wales Police from 1972.   Chair of the CrimTrac Agency, the Australia and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) and the Australian Police Professional Standards Council. Co-Chair of the Australian Institute of Police Management (AIPM), and board member of the Australian Crime Commission. Member of the Senior Officer in Government since 2001.

 Cheryl O’Connor,  CEO,  Australian  College  of  Educators

Ms Cheryl O’Connor FACE is the full-time Chief Executive Officer of the Australian College of Educators.   Cheryl is responsible to the National Council for efficient and effective operation of the association.  Cheryl has worked extensively across many areas of education.  She worked as an education and a human resources consultant immediately prior to taking up this position.  She held senior leadership and managerial positions with the NSW and ACT departments of education. She was and Executive Director, Human Resources and Director of Schools in the ACT Department of Education and Director of Personnel in the NSW Department of Education and Training.  As a school principal her leadership was characterised by innovation and inclusiveness within the school and community, an effective shared leadership style that allowed many staff who worked with her to develop their own leadership strengths.  She worked tirelessly to advance the interests of young people, families and the profession.  She has a well established reputation as a public advocate for education.  During seven years as a consultant her expertise was called upon in the areas of school organisation, educational leadership, mentoring and coaching, program review and strategic planning.  She is also a skilled workshop presenter and facilitator.  Her qualifications are a Bachelor of Education and a Masters in Public Administration.  Personal interests are the arts, the garden, good stories, family and friends.

Dr Shirley  Randell  AM,  Consultant for Gender and Governance for Empowerment in Rwanda, Eastern Africa


 Shirley Randell

Dr. Shirley Kaye Randell AM, FACE, FAIM, FAICD is Consultant for Gender and Governance for Empowerment in Rwanda, Eastern Africa. She had a distinguished career in education and management in commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia, culminating in Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Adult Education and the City of Whitehorse in Victoria. She has provided advisory services in education, governance for empowerment, gender mainstreaming and public sector reform for governments, development partners, and international non-government organisations in the Pacific, Asia and Africa since 1997. Dr. Randell is World Vice President of the Geneva-based International Federation of University Women and Founder and Secretary General of the Rwandan Association of University Women. She is also a member of the New York-based Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund Board. She is a prolific writer and speaker on human rights, gender, women’s leadership and education issues and maintains an amazing network with friends around the world, keeping them up to date with regular bulletins on development progress.

Diann Rodgers-Healey, Founder of CLW

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Dr  Jocelynne  Scutt,  Barrister & Human Rights Lawyer, First Anti-Discrimination Commissioner, Executive Producer, Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal of Fiji and  Head of the Family Division and Employment Division of the High Court of Fiji.

Jocelynne Scutt

Dr Jocelynne Scutt is a Barrister and Human Rights lawyer, writer and commentator. Scutt has worked with the Australian Institute of Criminology and as director of research with the Legal and Constitutional Committee of the parliament of Victoria. From 1981 to 82 she worked at the Sydney Bar and then was Deputy Chairperson of the Law Reform Commission, Victoria. In 1986 she returned to private practice in Melbourne. In 2007 she accepted a judicial post on the Fiji High Court. She is currently Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal of Fiji and  Head of the Family Division and Employment Division of the High Court of Fiji.

2008 Leadership Achievement Award’s Panel of Judges  

 

2007 Leadership Achievement Award’s Panel of Judges  

 

2006 Leadership Achievement Award’s Panel of Judges

 

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