Australian Press Council Independent Journalist Members

Mike Steketee Mike Steketee started his career in 1966 as a cadet journalist with the Daily Telegraph in Sydney. He joined the Sydney Morning Herald in 1975 and his positions there included Washington correspondent, NSW State political correspondent, Canberra political correspondent and head of bureau and political editor based in Sydney.

He became The Australian’s national affairs editor in 1994. Since 2012 he has been a freelance journalist.

Mike has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University (1975) and is co- author of “Wran, An Unauthorised Biography” (1986). In 2000, he won a Walkley award for journalism leadership.

Mike Steketee joined the Council as an independent journalist member in January 2014

Prue Innes Prue Innes was appointed an independent journalist member of the Council in August 2007. She has been a journalist for about 24 years. She did her cadetship at the Herald and Weekly Times. She then went to The Age where she became a specialist court reporter and then law reporter, but her time at The Age included two years in the Canberra press gallery and a year on the subs' desk. She was a member of the review panel of the MEAA which produced the revised Code of Ethics in the late 1990s, and was the inaugural chair of the national ethics panel, until resigning earlier this year. She was active in the Victorian ethics committee for a number of years. Prue was the first media officer in the Victorian court system, until July 2007. She was a member of the Courts Media Liaison Group which brought together key players to work out issues of concern for media coverage of the courts and improve media access. In 1998 she took a Churchill Fellowship looking at the relationship between the courts and the media, and was a member of the advisory board of Melbourne University's Centre for Media and Communications Law from its inception until resigning last December. She holds a BA from Melbourne University and a Graduate Diploma in Commercial Law from Monash University.

Peter Kerr Peter Kerr is the NSW Director of Asialink, which works with business, government, philanthropic and cultural partners to build Australia-Asia capability. He was Executive Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald until 2012, responsible for overseeing ethics and standards and handling legal and complaints issues. He was also Foreign Editor at the Herald for five years. He has been a reporter, editor and sub-editor in Australia and Britain for newspapers, magazines and Australian Associated Press

Gerard Noonan After various casual jobs as a builder's labourer, farm labourer, clerk, skin diver and spray painter in Victoria and North Western Australia, Gerard began in journalism at a Melbourne suburban newspaper in 1976. He worked at Australian Associated Press and the Australian Financial Review as a political and industrial relations reporter until 1986, when he transferred to Sydney to be news editor of the Australian Financial Review. From 1988 to 1992 he was the editor of the Australian Financial Review, and then the Editorial director of The Magazine Group to1998. In 1998 he was appointed senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald and worked as education editor and NSW political correspondent before being appointed commissioning editor and senior writer for the Sydney Morning Herald in 2005. Gerard represented the John Fairfax Group as an alternate on the Australian Press Council from 1999 until his retirement from the company. Gerard holds a Bachelor of Arts from Monash and La Trobe Universities (1978) and completed a MA (distinction) in history at University of Sydney in 2002.

March 2014 Australian Press Council Address : Level 6, 309 Kent Street, GPO Box 3343 Sydney 2001 Phone : (02) 9261 1930 or 1800 025 712 Fax : (02) 9267 6826 Email : [email protected] Web : http://www.presscouncil.org.au