Annual Report 2003
Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth
“Working together to enhance the wellbeing and life chances of children and young people.” Note: The highlighted quotes TABLE OF CONTENTS Page used throughout this report are attributable to the Alliance CEO, 1. THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2 Professor Fiona Stanley AC Chairman’s Report 2 Chief Executive Officer’s Report 3 Highlights 2003 5
2. STRATEGIC OVERVIEW 6 Key Strategies 6 Project Structure 7
3. GOVERNANCE and ADMINISTRATION 8
4. REPORT on OPERATIONS 10 Project 1: Collaboration 10 Network Development 10 Consensus Research Agenda 11 Clearing House 11 Communication Strategy 12 Project 2: National Data Network 12 Administration 12
5. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 13 Directors’ Report 13 Independent Audit Report 16 Directors’ Declaration 17 Statement of Financial Performance 18 Statement of Financial Position 18 Statement of Cash Flows 19 Notes to and forming part of the Accounts 19
6. APPENDICES 22 Working Groups 22 Organisational Members 23 OUR PURPOSE:
to enhance the wellbeing and life chances of children and young people through the establishment of new collaborations across disciplines and sectors for the development and application of useful knowledge.
he Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth was established in 2002 to harness Tthe expertise and resources of individuals and organisations in developing innovative Australian solutions to the range of complex problems affecting the health, development and wellbeing Research Alliance of increasing numbers of young Australians. for Children and The Alliance is building the capacity to connect people and establish networks that will enable Youth the sharing of ideas, information and knowledge across previously discrete boundaries of expertise and endeavour. ABN 100 902 921 The newly forged collaborations that are established through this process will make it possible Level 13, Dumas House, to more effectively and comprehensively address the “big picture” issues that are impacting 2 Havelock Street, on the quality of life of children and young people growing up in Australia. West Perth WA 6005 Phone: 08 9476 7800 This collaborative approach will enhance the nation’s capacity to achieve outcomes that are Fax: 08 9476 7850 significantly better than could be achieved from the more fragmented approaches practised in Email: the past. [email protected] Web: www.aracy.org.au The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth is a Company Limited by Guarantee.
The Alliance is an Approved Research Institute (ARI) with deductible gift recipient status and tax exemption.
All research produced by the Alliance will be publicly and freely available.
1 Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth ANNUAL REPORT 2003 1 THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Report from the Board Chairman: Michael Chaney
he 2003 reporting year is the first full year of operation of the Australian Research Alliance Tfor Children and Youth. Over the course of the year, the Alliance has continued to put in place structures and processes to support a strong and sustainable system of governance and to provide assurance to investors that funding is well managed, accounted for, and achieves the outcomes for which it is intended.
The finalisation of the Alliance constitution in December 2002 ensures that the organisation operates under a clear governance framework.
A draft business plan prepared in mid 2003 identifies the funding requirements and planned outcomes to the end of 2005. The business plan will be refined and updated on an ongoing basis.
During this early period of development, it has been particularly encouraging to note the extent of financial and practical support the Alliance has received both from government and from the philanthropic and corporate sectors.
This broadly based level of support has been reinforced by the impressive list of more than 150 member organisations and a comparable number of individual members who have joined the Alliance since membership opened in mid 2003.
The establishment of any new organisation poses unique challenges. This applies in particular to one which is as groundbreaking in its vision, goals, structure and method of operating as the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth.
In my role as inaugural board chairperson, I am particularly appreciative of the input and support of my fellow board members. Our inaugural directors, Ms Elaine Henry, Justice Tony Fitzgerald and CEO Professor Fiona Stanley and three subsequent appointees, Sir Gustav Nossal, Mr Peter Mason and Mr Paul Kelly have all been very important contributors over the past year.
The calibre and breadth of expertise represented in the governing board, together with administrative capacity developed by the national office puts the Alliance in a strong position for the implementation phase of its work program scheduled to commence in the second half of 2004.
Michael Chaney
Board Chairperson
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Report from the Chief Executive Officer: Professor Fiona Stanley AC
he Australian Research Alliance is poised to begin implementing the most broadly based Tcollaborative venture ever attempted in Australia or, as far as we are aware, anywhere else in the world, to address a social issue of major national significance.
In the second half of 2004, we will be appointing collaborative teams from across the spectrum of specialised disciplines and diverse sectors to begin the process of developing a comprehensive, integrated approach for tackling the top “big picture” issues that have been identified as requiring priority action if we are to achieve our goal of improving the health, development and wellbeing of young Australians.
The priority issues we will be initially addressing are based on input from more than 500 senior researchers, policymakers, and service managers who took part in a series of consultations across the nation in the latter part of 2003 to inform the development of the Alliance’s Consensus Research Agenda. The Agenda is nearing completion and will be announced shortly.
“Many of the The diversity of multidisciplinary, cross-sector representation we are envisaging in this first problems group of collaborative teams will provide a breath of knowledge and expertise that will enable us not only to find answers to the big questions that need to be addressed, but also to ensure confronting young that the innovative solutions we come up with are most likely to work in “real life” situations. Australians are the result of The involvement and support of policymakers and service providers throughout the process complex genetic, will ensure that those at the implementation end of the continuum are as well informed of the evidence underpinning our findings as those responsible for gathering and interpreting that biological and evidence. social factors interacting during Our collaborative capacity will be underpinned by the practice model we have been development that developing to guide our cooperative endeavours. This “model of good collaborative practice” will ensure clarity of expectations, appropriate accountability, and establish processes to will not be support the free exchange of ideas and information between participating groups while effectively safeguarding confidentiality, privacy and legal requirements. The knowledge management addressed in capacity being developed through the Alliance’s foundation projects will ensure that isolation from knowledge is integrated, communicated and applied to best effect. each other.” In sum, we will, for the first time ever, have the capacity to join up the critical links in the process chain enabling us to transform our collective concerns, to reliable knowledge, to evidence-based decisions, to effective action in a continuous cycle of monitoring, research, evaluation, communication and feedback.
“Inter-related In setting the scene for the ground breaking work program upon which we are about to embark, I wish to particularly acknowledge the early support (both funding and in kind) from problems require government and the philanthropic and corporate sectors and from many of our organisational integrated and individual members which has enabled us to lay organisational foundations that are solutions.” strong enough to support and sustain a venture of this magnitude over the period of time we believe will be required to ensure our long term success.
The Alliance has benefited greatly from the insights, expertise, dedication and networks which our inaugural Board members have brought to the very challenging role of presiding over the establishment of our organisation during its early developmental stages.
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“Breadth of Both at a personal level and on behalf of all our members, I would particularly like to collaboration will acknowledge our Chairman Michael Chaney, who, in addition to his chairmanship and give us the contribution to the Board, has provided other forms of practical support including pro bono consultancy support through Wesfarmers. capacity. Integrated The extent of public support for both our vision and our approach has confirmed for us that knowledge will building collaboration of the breadth and depth we are proposing offers the best, and perhaps give us the power. only, possibility for effectively addressing the complex problems confronting the young of today. Informed action will make the Implementation of the integrated innovative solutions we develop will benefit not only the difference.” individual children and families who are having to deal with the consequences of these problems, but the nation as a whole as more and more of our younger citizens grow up to be healthy, competent adults capable of making a worthwhile contribution to Australian society. The call on funding for costly, long term treatment options or remedial programs will be substantially reduced. “An investment As we move into the next phase of implementing our priority projects, we believe we have in the wellbeing developed the capacity and the means not only of making a real difference to young people’s of our young is an lives but also of demonstrating the value of our collaborative approach. It is an approach which, we believe, could just as effectively be applied to other social problems of similar investment in the magnitude and complexity and one that has generated considerable interest from overseas wellbeing of our bodies who are looking to us as offering a possible model for tackling similar problems entire nation that amongst their own population of young people. We are literally blazing a new trail. will pay With the support of our members and the many other agencies and sectors backing us, we are substantial determined to succeed in our ambitious vision. There is too much at stake to do otherwise. dividends long into the future.”
Fiona Stanley
Chief Executive Officer
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2003 Highlights
Policy Priority Knowledge Management Capacity On the Agenda The Alliance has made significant progress in laying the foundations for the infrastructure initiatives that will support - The Alliance and its members have been extensively promoting public and political awareness of the importance • the linking, integration and analysis of existing databases of healthy child development to the long term wellbeing of (National Data Network Project) with strong involvement the nation. from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the CSIRO
The Commonwealth Government, the Federal Opposition • a knowledge transfer mechanism to improve the and several State Governments have recently listed child accessibility, relevance and uptake of quality research development as amongst their top policy priorities with knowledge to guide policy development and service associated funding commitments. delivery for children and youth (Clearinghouse Project).
Organisational Capacity Operational Highlights The Alliance has implemented a robust system of Governance supported by administrative structures and processes that will Collaborative Capacity sustain the organisation and large scale collaborative The Alliance has continued to mobilise broadly based ventures over the longer term. collaboration throughout the year including the following key components - Three new board members were appointed during the year – eminent scientist and 2000 Australian of the Year Sir Gustav • Building the Membership – more than 150 of the Nossal AC, Chairman of the JP Morgan Chase Bank Group in nation’s top research, policy and practice organisations Australia Mr Peter Mason AM, and Editor-at-Large of the representing all relevant disciplines joined the Alliance Australian newspaper, Mr Paul Kelly. in 2003 (See page 13 for a listing of the full board). • Network Development - network meetings conducted with data specialists and users (Canberra, Support Base June 2003), business and community leaders (Sydney The Alliance continues to receive practical and funding July 2003), practitioners (Sydney August 2003), Alliance support from a wide range of sources including from members (December 2003) Government, business and philanthropic bodies. • Agenda for Action - 500 senior personnel working (See inside back cover for a list of our supporters). in research, policy and service management have participated in nationwide consultations to support the development of the Alliance’s Consensus Research Agenda that will identify priority issues to be addressed by soon to be established collaborative teams
• Research Network - more than 230 researchers have registered to take part in the proposed ARACY/ARC Future Generation Research Network. “Our goal is to mobilise the nation’s The Alliance was awarded seed funding from the collective capacity to generate Australian Research Council in December 2003 (under groundbreaking knowledge that has the ARC’s new Research Networks program) to support the further development of the proposed research the power to make a real difference to network which will focus specifically on issues young people’s lives, not just today but concerning children and youth. long into the future.”
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Key Strategies
“Collaboration he Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth is pioneering a new paradigm by is both the Twhich knowledge from disparate sources is integrated and transformed into comprehensive, context and the coordinated action that will enable a more effective response to complex social issues. means by which The distinctive and defining quality of the new approach being developed by the Australian we will achieve Research Alliance for Children and Youth is in the scale of collaborative effort being mobilised. our goal of This breadth of collaboration will enable data, knowledge and expertise from across the integrating and boundaries of previously discrete fields of inquiry, endeavour, administrative structures and translating diverse jurisdictional responsibilities to be shared, linked, integrated and practically applied to address knowledge into complex social problems in a planned and systematic way. effective action The key strategic components of this approach include - that will make a difference • developing the skills and knowledge needed to support large scale collaborations across to the lives disciplines and sectors of young • developing the capacity to - Australians.” • work with end users to identify research questions that will have the greatest impact on outcomes and to expand the knowledge base
“Our knowledge • produce evidence that will be useful and able to be put into action management • make better use of existing data and other knowledge resources initiatives will enable us to • contribute further to the effectiveness of international collaborations. more effectively • freely communicate this knowledge to anyone who needs it. bridge the gap between what we The Alliance model focuses on the prevention of problems rather than on costly cures. know, and what It is based on a virtuous cycle of monitoring, researching, evaluating, communication and we do with that feedback with a focus on what works best in policy and practice. knowledge in developing policies and delivering services that are most likely to work best in the day to day reality of people’s lives.”
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Project Structure
The Alliance’s Project Structure recognises the defining role that collaboration will play in all other aspects of Alliance operations.
Project 1: Goal Outcome
Collaboration To create the environment improved working relationships and conditions that will between groups concerned with facilitate collaborative effort the wellbeing of children and young people “For the first time ever, we will Key Activities have the collaborative Network Development To build, support and improved capacity to share and capacity to join facilitate an inclusive network exchange information and expertise of potential collaborators between groups concerned with the up the critical wellbeing of children and young links in the people process chain enabling us to Research Agenda To focus effort and improved coordination and focus transform our investment in areas that will for resourcing and effort under an achieve the greatest impact overarching framework of agreed collective priorities for action concerns, to reliable knowledge, to Clearinghouse To put knowledge into action improved policy and services based evidence-based by making it more accessible on the best available evidence of decisions, to to policy makers and service what works. providers effective action in a continuous cycle of monitoring, Communication Strategy To provide the improved translation of research research, communication infrastructure findings and stronger commitment evaluation, for the activities of the to evidence-based decision-making. Alliance communication and feedback.” Project 2.
National Data Network To realise the full potential improved data for informing policy of existing national data and service design. resources
7 Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth ANNUAL REPORT 2003 3 GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
he Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth is • Mr Peter Mason, AM appointed December 2003: Ta Company Limited by Guarantee with deductible gift Chairman of the JP Morgan Chase Bank Group in recipient status and tax exemption. Australia
The Alliance operates at two levels: • Mr Paul Kelly appointed January 2004: Editor-at- Large for the Australian newspaper. • the company level of governance and administration (A more comprehensive profile of the board members is • Collaborative Teams established to achieve specific included in the Audited Financial Statements page 13). Alliance objectives Research Committee: The Research Committee oversees the disbursement of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth Ltd Research Fund and ensures that the research undertaken by the Alliance is scientific in nature and is or may prove to be of value to Australia. The Research Fund receives all gifts to Members the Alliance in accordance with the requirements of the
L Australian Taxation Office. L Research L Advisory Committee L Board L Committee Distribution Advice on
of research emerging trends/ funds L issues for work There are eight Research Committee members. agenda National Office • Dr John Ainley: Deputy Director of the Australian Alliance Agreements/MOU’s Council for Educational Research (ACER) L L L L
P L L L
ch olicy L • Professor Alan Hayes: Dean and Head of the Resear P P P P R R R R Practice Australian Centre for Educational Studies at Macquarie P P P P University, and Professor of Early Childhood Studies • Professor Ross Homel: Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University in Queensland The Alliance Board: The breadth of experience represented on the Alliance board • Professor Brian Oldenburg: Professor and Head of provides for strong leadership and sound decision-making. the School of Public Health at Queensland University of Technology • Mr Michael Chaney (Chairman) appointed July • Associate Professor Ann Sanson: Deputy Director 2002: Managing Director of Wesfarmers and a director (Research) at the Australian Institute of Family Studies of several public companies • Associate Professor Dorothy Scott: Associate • The Hon Tony Fitzgerald, AC, QC appointed July Professor, School of Social Work, Melbourne University 2002: Former Judge on the Federal Court of Australia and chair of the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW • Professor Fiona Stanley AC: Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and • Ms Elaine Henry, OAM appointed July 2002: Chief Youth Executive Officer of The Smith Family and Chair of the Stronger Families & Communities Partnership • Professor Graham Vimpani: Paediatrician, Acting Director of the Child, Adolescent and Family Health • Professor Fiona Stanley, AC, appointed July 2002: Services, Hunter Area Health Service and Professor and Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Head of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Alliance for Children and Youth and 2003 Australian of Newcastle. the Year • Sir Gustav Nossal, AC, CBE, appointed November 2003: distinguished immunologist and former Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 2000 Australian of the Year
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Members: • Executive/Membership Officer Deidre Fountain: supports To achieve the breadth of collaboration envisaged, the the Board and all other committees and working groups, Alliance has sought to build an inclusive network of undertakes membership recruitment and maintains the members with broadly based representation across sectors website. and disciplines. • Program Coordination Manager Carey Drake-Brockman: The more than 150 national and state based organisations oversees the development of the core projects including that have joined the Alliance since mid 2003 represent fields identifying, developing, coordinating and reporting on as diverse as child and adolescent health and development, the activities of the project working groups. social and behavioural science, education, justice, economics, rural and urban planning, environmental science, population • Communications Officer Deirdre Croft (part-time): statistics, philosophy, public sector management, ethics, produces newsletter, electronic briefings, membership culture and the arts, transport and communications. materials and supervises website maintenance.
Within these fields of specialised knowledge, current • Administration Officer Narelle Thomas: undertakes all membership includes roughly equal numbers of administrative duties, including payroll, book keeping, organisations working in research and those involved in purchasing, management of the CEO’s diary and direct service provision. The current membership includes a provides general clerical support to the Office. smaller number of policy organisations most of whom are Advisory Bodies: government agencies with a coordinating role across a number of other areas of government responsibility. Working Groups: Five multidisciplinary working groups have been established National Office: to oversee the early development of: The National Office provides support to the Board, its committees and other working groups, and the means to • an inclusive network of Members coordinate collaborative effort to produce the best outcomes. • a Model of Good Collaborative Practice
• CEO Professor Fiona Stanley (part-time): provides • the Research Agenda strategic leadership • the Clearinghouse Project • National Coordinator Lynne McGuigan: deputises for the • the National Data Network. CEO, acts as Company Secretary, provides management of the National Office, coordinates activities, builds and Members of the Working Groups are listed in the maintains an inclusive network of 'partners'. Appendices on page 22.
Advisers and Consultants: The work of the National Office is supported by consultancy input as required.
Management and Governance Communications Financial
Strategic Advice: Strategic Communications: Banking: Poynton: Gem Consulting (pro bono) Sankey Associates National Australia Bank Limited, West Perth WA
Management: Media Liaison: Accountant: Ernst & Young (pro bono), Chatter Box Mack & Co Westfarmers (pro bono)
Governance: Website: Auditor: Freehills (pro bono) Beacon Technology Ernst & Young (pro bono)
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Project 1: COLLABORATION
Goal: to create the enabling environment Advice to Government that will facilitate collaborative effort. • The Alliance coordinated and prepared a joint submission of 16 member agencies in response to the Commonwealth Government’s proposed National Agenda for Early Childhood. Key Activity 1: • The priority areas for action identified in the Alliance Network Development coordinated submission are all reflected in the consultation feedback report which the Government released in October 2003. Goal:To build, support and facilitate an inclusive network of potential collaborators Network Meetings and Opportunities In partnership with member organisations and supporters, Membership the following meetings were conducted with members and allied groups. The Alliance has succeeded in its goal of building a broadly based membership with all major disciplines and sectors • National Data Network Expert Roundtable - represented amongst its organisational and individual Senior representatives from close to 30 Government, members. non-Government, university and private organisations met in Canberra in June to discuss the proposed • A multidisciplinary Membership Working Group was National Data Network at a roundtable hosted by the established in early 2003. Australian Bureau of Statistics on behalf of the Alliance. • Membership opened in mid April 2003 with more than • Business and Community Leaders Forum - The 150 organisations and similar number of individual New South Wales Governor hosted a Forum in Sydney in members joining the Alliance in less than eight months. August 2003 to introduce the Alliance to business and • A statement from members affirming their commitment community leaders. The forum included a presentation to work together to improve the health and wellbeing of from Professor Fraser Mustard who is an international children and youth was published in the Australian expert on the early years of human development. newspaper to commemorate Universal Children’s Day in • Practitioners’ Workshop - About 20 senior October 2003. Publication of the statement was representatives of service provider organisations on the sponsored by Ernst & Young. eastern seaboard attended a Practitioners’ Workshop in Capacity Building Sydney in September 2003 which was hosted on behalf The Alliance was awarded $40,000 in seed funding from the of the Alliance by the Smith Family and JB WERE. Australian Research Council (ARC) to develop a research • Research Directions Consultation Meetings – network focusing specifically on the health, development more than 500 senior researchers, policymakers and and wellbeing of children and young people. The Alliance is service managers took part in nationwide consultations applying for five year funding of the network under the from October – December 2003 (further information ARC’s new Research Networks Program. under the Research Agenda Project below). • Professor Ross Homel was appointed to develop the • Strategic Directions Members’ Meeting – More network and application due to be submitted in March than 100 members from almost 90 different 2004. organisations (about half of whom are involved in service provision) attended the Alliance’s Strategic • More than 230 researchers and research users have Directions Members’ Meeting which was hosted on registered (from across a broad range of disciplines and behalf of the Alliance by Ernst & Young in Melbourne in including several from overseas) to be part of the December 2003. Alliance’s network. • A planning meeting of network participants in Canberra is scheduled for January 2004. • An announcement on successful applicants is expected around July/August 2004.
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Project 1: COLLABORATION
Model of Good Collaborative Practice Collaborative Project – “Building a Better With the support of The Boston Consulting Group, the Future for Our Children” Alliance has been developing a Model of Good Collaborative As part of the Agenda setting process, the Alliance has been Practice that will ensure clarity of expectations, appropriate collaborating with the Academy of Social Sciences in accountability, and processes that enable the free exchange Australia in the conduct of a broad-ranging study of of ideas and information across different perspectives while available knowledge that may be relevant to the safeguarding confidentiality, privacy and legal requirements. developmental needs of children and youth. The study commenced in 2003 and is due to be completed in 2004. • A multidisciplinary Working Group was appointed in November 2003 to oversee the development of the model. • A series of discussion papers have been written with a Key Activity 3: final report due in mid 2004. Clearinghouse
Goal:To put knowledge into action by making it Key Activity 2: more accessible to policy makers and service Consensus Research Agenda providers
Goal:To focus effort and investment in areas that Model for Collating and Disseminating will achieve the greatest impact. Knowledge The Alliance has been working on the development of a Identification of Priority Issues for Action web-based “knowledge management” mechanism that will The Alliance has been working on the development of a make research knowledge more accessible and relevant to Research Agenda that will organise and generate the future the requirements of policymakers and service providers. work of its Collaborative Teams. The Agenda will identify • An International Consortium was appointed in July 2003 and prioritise core issues that will need to be addressed if to undertake a feasibility study into the need for and the health and wellbeing of young Australians is to be likely support of such a mechanism. improved. • Based on interviews with key stakeholders, a report on • Two Research Agenda Project Leaders were appointed in phase 1 of the study (December 2003) concluded that a July 2003 (Professor Ross Homel and Professor Jan web-based system which categorised, reviewed and Carter). summarised knowledge relevant to Australian children • Nationwide consultation meetings were conducted from and youth would increase the usefulness and application October – December 2003 (through 46 focus groups of research knowledge at the policy and practice level. and 19 personal interviews) in which more than 500 • Phase 2 of the study will investigate and recommend a senior researchers, policymakers and service managers model that is considered most appropriate to the took part. Alliance members contributed to the management and communication of knowledge about organisation of consultation meetings in different states children and youth in an Australian context. and territories. • A final report on the outcomes of the consultation is due in mid 2004.
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Project 2: NATIONAL DATA NETWORK
Key Activity 4: Goal: to realise the full potential of Communication Strategy existing surveys, studies and databases through data linkage. Goal: to provide the communication infrastructure for the activities of the Alliance. Expert Roundtable to Canvass Support and Identify Issues The capacity to manage and support high quality communication strategies and processes underpins all • The Expert Roundtable attended by 30 data producers, dimensions of the Alliance’s work program and will analysts and users in Canberra in June 2003, identified a ultimately determine its success in building effective series of Foundation and Demonstration Projects to collaboration. support the further development of the National Data Network in relation to data sharing, data linkage and Stage 1 of the Communication Strategy was developed in data gaps. December 2002 and has been progressively implemented Model and Business Plan for the National throughout 2003. Data Network Key strategic tasks have included building the membership, • Consultants were appointed in November 2003 to building a support base and developing a distinctive Alliance develop an Options Paper of an operational and profile which is synonymous with its purpose. governance model for the National Data Network, and a Business Plan for the progressive implementation of the • The Alliance web-site came on line in January 2003 network. • Two newsletters were published in March 2003 and July • A final report is due in mid 2004. 2003 Support for the Development of the • Two information brochures were published in 2003 National Data Network • A State of the Alliance report summarising progress in • The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and the CSIRO establishing the Alliance was published in December are working closely with the Alliance in the development 2003 of the National Data Network. • Four Electronic Briefings were posted to members • The ABS is taking the lead in a consortium to develop a • Extensive media coverage and speaking engagements “demonstration” version of a National Data Network by followed the appointment of Alliance CEO as 2003 the end of 2004. Australian of the Year. • the CSIRO has invested more than $6 million in network Stage 2 of the Strategy will get underway in 2004. infrastructure research as part of its Health Data Integration initiative.
Administration
A small team of staff at the National Office provides support to the Board, its committees and other working groups, and the means to coordinate collaborative effort to produce the best outcomes.
• Full administrative and financial responsibility was transferred from Telethon Institute of Child Health Research to the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth in June 2003 • A draft Business Plan was prepared in August 2003 and will be updated on an ongoing basis.
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Directors’ Report
Your directors present their report on the company for the Information on Directors year ended 31 December 2003. Mr Michael Alfred Chaney The directors have been in office since the start of the Michael Chaney is Managing Director of Wesfarmers, a financial year to the date of this report unless otherwise major diversified Australian public company headquartered stated. The names of the directors are:- in Perth. The group employs around 29,000 people across Australia and New Zealand. Mr Chaney is also a director of Michael Alfred Chaney BHP Billiton Limited and Gresham Partners Holdings Limited. Gerald Edward Fitzgerald, AC, QC Mr Chaney is a member of the Business Council of Australia Elaine Henry, OAM and the Council of the National Gallery of Australia and a Director of the Centre for Independent Studies. Mr Chaney Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley, AC has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Sir Gustav Nossal, AC, CBE (appointed 3 November 2003) Administration from the University of Western Australia. Mr Peter Mason, AM (appointed 28 November 2003) Chaney completed the Advance Management Program at Paul Kelly (appointed 5 January 2004) Harvard University Business School in 1992 and has also The net profit of the company for the financial year after been awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the provision for income tax was:- University of Western Australia.
Year Ended Mr Gerald Edward Fitzgerald, AC, QC 31 December Former NSW Appeal Court Judge Tony Fitzgerald has a 2003 distinguished career in the law. Mr Fitzgerald also served as a Judge on the Federal Court of Australia and Supreme Court Operating profit/(loss) after income tax $546,410 of Australian Capital Territory, and was the inaugural President of the Queensland Court of Appeal. Mr The company is a company limited by guarantee. The Fitzgerald’s name is synonymous with the inquiry into official company has a financial year ending 31 December. The corruption in Queensland that he chaired from 1987 – 1989. company was incorporated in Australia on 13 June 2002. Mr Fitzgerald also chaired inquiries into the conservation, management and use of Fraser Island and the Great Sandy The company was established for the charitable purpose of Region, and conducted the Cape York Justice Study in 2001. facilitating, co-ordinating and supporting the development Mr Fitzgerald chairs the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW of knowledge through scientific research and the effective and is a Professional Fellow at the University of Melbourne use of that knowledge which is or may prove to be, of value Law School. Mr Fitzgerald is currently engaged as a to Australia by enhancing the well being and the life mediator and arbitrator in Sydney and Brisbane in the areas chances of children and young people. of commercial, employment, insurance, media, property and public law. No significant change in the nature of these activities occurred during the year. Ms Elaine Henry, OAM No matters or circumstances have arisen since the end of Mrs Elaine Henry OAM, is Chief Executive Officer of The the financial year which significantly affect the operations of Smith Family. Prior to this appointment she was Executive the company, the results of those operations or the state of Director of the NSW Cancer Council for 12 years from 1985- affairs of the company in future financial years. 1997. In May 2000 Elaine was awarded the Cancer Council’s Inaugural Award for Professional Excellence in Likely developments in the operations of the company and Service Delivery. She was a non-executive Director of AXA the expected results of those operations in future financial Trustees from 1998 – 2001. Elaine has served on a wealth years have not been included in this report. of committees at the state, national and international levels and currently Chairs the Commonwealth’s Stronger Families The company’s operations are not regulated by any & Communities Partnership, is a Member of the Welfare environmental regulation under a law of the Commonwealth Reform Consultative Forum and the Prime Minister’s or of a State or Territory. Community Business Partnership. She is on the board of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, is a
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Directors’ Report
member of The Alcoa Research Centre for Stronger Mr Peter Mason, AM Communities Board, Curtin University of Technology, the Mr Mason has more than 30 years experience in investment Children and Education Research Centre Advisory Board, banking in Australia and overseas. He is currently Chairman University of Newcastle, the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory of the JP Morgan Chase Bank Group in Australia, a director Board, University of Wollongong and is a Trustee of the of the Mayne Group Limited and a director of AMP Limited. National Breast Cancer Foundation. She is also Chair of the He spent 15 years with the Schroders group where he was Interim Board of the Not for Profit Council of Australia. In Chairman and Chief Executive of Schroders Australia Limited February 2000 Elaine was selected as one of 50 Australian and Group Managing Director with responsibility for women to be profiled in the 2000 Businesswomen’s Hall of Schroders investment banking businesses in the Asia Pacific Fame and in August 2001 was named one of 30 Australian region. As a former director of the Lloyds Banking group, he Financial Review BOSS True Leaders. was responsible for the group’s investment banking businesses in Australia and the United Kingdom. Mr Mason Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley, AC is a former director of a number of public companies and Fiona Stanley is the founding Director of the Telethon educational and charitable institutions, including 12 years as Institute for Child Health Research in Perth. The multi- Deputy Chairman of the Children’s Hospital in Sydney and disciplinary Institute, established in 1990, researches eight years as Chairman of the Children’s Hospital Fund. He prevention of major childhood illnesses and disabilities. is a member of the Council of the University of New South Professor Stanley is on the editorial board of three Wales and Chairman of the Council’s Finance Committee. international journals, is a member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council and the Mr Paul Kelly Western Australian Premier’s Science Council. Professor Mr Kelly is currently Editor-at-Large for the Australian Stanley’s main areas of research are analytical studies newspaper having previously held the positions of National investigating the causes and prevention of birth defects and Affairs Editor (1985-91) and Editor-in-Chief (1991-96). He major neurological disorders particularly the cerebral palsies; has worked as a political correspondent and newspaper and the causes of lifelong consequences of low birth weight and television commentator over the past 30 years reporting on other pre and postnatal problems; patterns of maternal and five Australian Governments and international affairs in child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations; America, Europe and Asia. Mr Kelly is the author of a strategies to enhance health and wellbeing in populations. number of successful books on Australian politics and the Professor Stanley was named Australian of the Year in 2003. Australian way of life and wrote and presented a television documentary ‘100 Years – The Australian Story’ which was Sir Gustav Nossal, AC, CBE screened by the ABC in 2001 to mark the Centenary of Sir Gustav Nossal is an eminent scientist who is world Federation. He is a former member of the Australia- renowned for his ground-breaking research into Indonesia Institute Board, a former director of the Victor immunology. He initially worked as a researcher and then Chang Cardiac Research Institute, and is currently Adjunct Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Professor of Journalism at the University of Queensland and Research over a 30 year period from 1965 to 1996 and was a participant in the Australia-America Leadership Dialogue. Professor of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne. In 2002, he was a visiting fellow at the Kennedy School of Sir Gustav has chaired numerous national and international Government and a visiting lecturer at the Weatherhead committees relating to science and health including the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University. International Union of Immunological Societies, the World Health Organisation’s Vaccines and Biologicals Program, the Strategic Advisory Council of the Bill and Melinda Gates Children’s Vaccine Program, the Australian Academy of Science, and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. He is the former Deputy Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation and is currently Chairman of The Felton Bequests Committee, Chairman of The Global Foundation and a Principal of Foursight Associates Pty Ltd. Sir Gustav has received numerous honours for his work from countries around the world. He was Australian of the Year in 2000.
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Directors’ Report
During the year to 31 December 2003, a total of seven (7) No indemnities have been given or insurance premiums Directors meetings were held which were attended by each paid during or since the end of the financial year for any director holding office as follows:- person who is or has been an officer or auditor of the company.
Number of Meetings No person has applied for leave of Court to bring Meetings Attended proceedings on behalf of the company or intervene in any proceedings to which the company is a party for the Mr Michael Alfred Chaney 7 7 purpose of taking responsibility on behalf of the company for all or part of those proceedings. Mr Gerald Edward Fitzgerald, AC, QC 7 5 The company was not a party to any such proceedings Ms Elaine Henry, OAM 7 7 during the year.
Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley 7 7 Signed in accordance with a resolution of directors
Sir Gustav Nossal, AM, CBE 2 2 at Perth on 15 April 2004 Mr Peter Mason, AM 1 0
The company is a company limited by guarantee and the liability of members is limited to an amount not exceeding $1. Accordingly no dividends were paid or options over Michael Alfred Chaney shares granted. Director The directors do not receive any remuneration or other benefits as the positions are honorary in nature.
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Independent audit report to members of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth Limited
Scope While we considered the effectiveness of management’s The financial report and directors’ responsibility internal controls over financial reporting when determining the nature and extent of our procedures, our audit was not The financial report comprises the statement of financial designed to provide assurance on internal controls. position, statement of financial performance, statement of cash flows, accompanying notes to the financial statements, We performed procedures to assess whether the substance and the directors’ declaration for the Australian Research of business transactions was accurately reflected in the Alliance for Children and Youth Limited (the company), for financial report. These and our other procedures did not the year ended 31 December 2003. include consideration or judgement of the appropriateness or reasonableness of the business plans or strategies The directors of the company are responsible for preparing a adopted by the directors and management of the company. financial report that gives a true and fair view of the financial position and performance of the company, and that Independence complies with Accounting Standards in Australia, in We are independent of the company, and have met the accordance with the Corporations Act 2001. This includes independence requirements of Australian professional responsibility for the maintenance of adequate accounting ethical pronouncements and the Corporations Act 2001 records and internal controls that are designed to prevent and detect fraud and error, and for the accounting policies Audit opinion and accounting estimates inherent in the financial report. In our opinion, the financial report of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth Limited is in Audit approach accordance with: We conducted an independent audit of the financial report in order to express an opinion on it to the members of the (a) the Corporations Act 2001, including: company. Our audit was conducted in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards in order to provide reasonable (i) giving a true and fair view of the financial position assurance as to whether the financial report is free of of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and material misstatement. The nature of an audit is influenced Youth Limited at 31 December 2003 and of its by factors such as the use of professional judgement, performance for the year ended on that date; and selective testing, the inherent limitations of internal control, (ii) complying with Accounting Standards in Australia and the availability of persuasive rather than conclusive and the Corporations Regulations 2001; and evidence. Therefore, an audit cannot guarantee that all material misstatements have been detected. (5) other mandatory financial reporting requirements in Australia. We performed procedures to assess whether in all material respects the financial report presents fairly, in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001, including compliance with Accounting Standards in Australia, and other mandatory financial reporting requirements in Australia, a view which is Ernst & Young consistent with our understanding of the company’s financial position, and of its performance as represented by the results of its operations and cash flows.
We formed our audit opinion on the basis of these procedures, which included: G H Meyerowitz
• examining, on a test basis, information to provide Partner evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial report, and Perth • assessing the appropriateness of the accounting policies 15 April 2004 and disclosures used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by the directors.
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Directors’ Declaration
In accordance with a resolution of the Directors of Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth Limited, we state that:
1. the financial statements and notes, as set out, are in accordance with the Corporations Act 2001:
(a) comply with Australian Accounting Standards and the Corporations Regulations 2001; and
(b) give a true and fair view of the financial position as at 31 December 2003 and of the performance for the year ended on that date of the company;
2. in the directors’ opinion, there are reasonable grounds to believe that the company will be able to pay its debts as and when they become due and payable.
Signed in accordance with a resolution of directors at Perth on 15 Aril 2004
Michael Alfred Chaney
Director
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Statement of Financial Performance for the year ended 31 December 2003
Notes 2003 2002 $$
Revenues from ordinary activities 3 1,019,151 - Employee benefits expense (221,370) - Consultants expense (126,399) - Travel expense (49,863) - Communications expense (23,835) - Premises outgoings expense (13,164) - Information technology expense (6,668) - Insurance expense (4,393) - Depreciation expense (932) - Other expenses from ordinary activities (26,117) -
Profit from ordinary activities 546,410 -
Statement of Financial Position as at 31 December 2003
Notes 2003 2002 $ $ CURRENT ASSETS Cash assets 562,664 - Receivables 5 30,064 - Other 6 9,488 -
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 602,216 -
NON CURRENT ASSETS Property, plant and equipment 7 12,718 -
TOTAL NON CURRENT ASSETS 12,718 -
TOTAL ASSETS 614,934 -
CURRENT LIABILITIES Payables 8 38,561 - Provisions 9 29,963 -
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 68,524 -
NET ASSETS 546,410 -
EQUITY
Retained profits 10 546,410 -
TOTAL EQUITY 546,410 -
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5 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Statement of Cash Flows for the year ended 31 December 2003
Notes 2003 2002 $$ CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Receipts from funders, gifts and other income 1,019,151 - Payments to suppliers and employees (442,837) -
Net cash provided by operating activities 12(a) 576,314 -
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Payment for property, plant & equipment (13,650) -
Net cash used in investing activities (13,650) -
Net increase in cash held 562,664 - Cash at 1 January 2003 - -
Cash at 31 December 2003 12(b) 562,664 -
Notes to and forming part of the Accounts
1. CORPORATE INFORMATION The financial report has been prepared in accordance with the The company is established for the charitable purpose of historical cost convention. facilitating, co-ordinating and supporting the development of The following is a summary of the material accounting policies knowledge through scientific research and the effective use of adopted by the company in the preparation of the financial that knowledge which is or may prove to be of value to report. Australia by enhancing the well being and the life chances of children and young people. Plant & Equipment The company is a company limited by guarantee and the liability Depreciation is provided on all fixed assets on a straight line of members is limited to an amount not exceeding $1. The basis. The depreciation rate used for plant and equipment is directors may impose an annual subscription on any class of 7.5% - 33% pa. membership from time to time and the member within a class which is subject to an annual subscription is liable to pay the Income Tax subscription. Under Section 50-5 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, the income of the company is exempt from income tax. 2. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Employee Benefits Provision is made for the company’s liability for employee Basis of Accounting benefits arising from services rendered by employees to The financial report is a general purpose financial report which balance date. Employee benefits expected to be settled within has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the one year have been measured at the amount expected to be Corporations Act 2001, including applicable Accounting paid when the liability is settled plus related on-costs. Other Standards. Other mandatory professional reporting employee benefits payable later than one year have been requirements (Urgent Issues Group Consensus Views) have also measured at the present value of the estimated future been complied with. outflows to be made for those benefits.
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Notes to and forming part of the Accounts
2003 2002 2003 2002 $$ $$
3. REVENUE FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES 9. PROVISIONS Receipts from funders 647,131 - Employee entitlements 29,963 - Receipts from gifts and other income 372,020 - Number of employees at year end 7 Total revenues from ordinary activities 1,019,151 - 10. EQUITY 4. PROFIT FROM ORDINARY ACTIVITIES Retained profits at the beginning Profit from ordinary activities before income tax has been of the financial year - - determined after: Net profit for the year ended Expenses 31 December 2003 546,410 - - Depreciation of plant & equipment 932 - - General expenses 143,102 - Retained profits at the end - Premises outgoings 13,164 - of financial year 546,410 - - Employee benefits expenses 221,370 - - Chief executive officer services 15,000 - 11. CAPITAL AND LEASING COMMITMENTS - Communications expenses 23,835 - Operating lease commitments - Travel expenses 49,863 - Non-cancellable operating leases contracted for but not - Corporate expenses 5,475 - capitalised in the financial statements 472,741 - Payable - not later than one year 4,219 - 5. RECEIVABLES - later than one year but not later than five years 9,308 - Other debtors 17,018 - GST refundable 13,046 - 13,527 - 30,064 - 12. STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
6. OTHER CURRENT ASSETS (a) Reconciliation of the net profit to the net Prepaid insurance 9,488 - cash flow from operations Profit from ordinary activities 546,410 - 7. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT Non cash flows in profit from ordinary activities At cost 13,650 - Less accumulated depreciation 932 - Depreciation 932 - 12,718 - Changes in assets and liabilities Increase in receivables (30,064) - Movements in carrying amounts: Increase in other assets (9,488) - Plant and equipment Increase in payables 38,561 - Balance at beginning of year - - Increase in provisions 29,963 - Additions 13,650 - Depreciation expense (932) - Net cash flow from operating activities 576,314 - Carrying amount at the end of year 12,718 - (b) Reconciliation of cash balances: 8. PAYABLES Cash balance comprises: Trade creditors 30,217 - Cash at bank 562,664 - ABN withholding tax payable 264 - PAYG tax payable 6,474 - Cash balance as per statement Accrued expenses 1,606 - of cash flows 562,664 - 38,561 -
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Notes to and forming part of the Accounts
13. FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS (a) Interest rate risk The company’s exposure to interest rate risk, which is the risk that a financial instrument’s value will fluctuate as a result of changes in market interest rates and the effective weighted average interest rates on those financial assets and liabilities, is as follows:- Weighted Average Effective Interest Rate Non Interest Bearing 2003 2002 2003 2002
Financial assets Cash - - - 562,664 - Receivables - - 30,064 -
Total financial assets 592,728 -
Financial liabilities Trade and sundry creditors - - 38,561 -
Total financial liabilities 38,561 -
15. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS The following were directors of the company during the (b) Credit risk period: The maximum exposure to credit risk at balance date to Mr Michael Alfred Chaney recognised financial assets is the carrying amount, as disclosed in the statement of financial position and notes to the financial Mr Gerald Edward Fitzgerald AC, QC statements. Ms Elaine Henry, OAM Prof Fiona Juliet Stanley, AC (c) Net fair values Sir Gustav Nossal, AC, CBE The net fair value of financial assets and financial liabilities approximates their carrying value. Mr Peter Mason, AM The Directors do not receive any remuneration or other 14. SEGMENT REPORTING benefits as the positions are honorary in nature. Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth Ltd operates During the year, payments of $15,000 were made for the within Australia for the charitable purpose of facilitating, co- provision of chief executive officer services by the Telethon ordinating and supporting the development of knowledge Institute for Child Health Research, an organisation at which through scientific research and the effective use of that Prof Fiona Stanley is a director. knowledge, which is or may prove to be, of value to Australia by enhancing the wellbeing and life chances of children and young people. 16. EVENTS SUBSEQUENT TO BALANCE DATE There have been no material post balance date events or transactions which could affect the financial position or performance of the company.
17. COMPANY DETAILS The registered office and principal place of business of the company is: Level 13, Dumas House 2 Havelock Street West Perth WA 6005
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6 APPENDICES
Working Groups
Membership Working Group • Mr Richard Eckersley - Fellow, National Centre for • Professor Brian Oldenburg (Chair) - Professor and Epidemiology & Population Health ANU, Canberra Head of the School of Public Health Queensland University of • Professor Ross Homel - Professor of Criminology and Technology Criminal Justice, Griffith University • Professor Alan Hayes - Dean and Head of the Australian • Professor Frank Oberklaid - Director, Centre for Centre for Educational Studies at Macquarie University, and Community Child Health, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne Professor of Early Childhood Studies • Professor George Patton - Director, Centre for Adolescent • Professor Tony McMichael - Director of the National Health, Royal Children's Hospital and Professor of Paediatric Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian Psychiatry, Melbourne University National University, Canberra • Professor Peter Saunders - Director, Social Policy Research • Professor Margot Prior - Department of Psychology, Royal Centre, University of New South Wales Children’s Hospital and Melbourne University • Associate Professor Dorothy Scott - Associate Professor, • Professor Fiona Stanley AC - Alliance CEO School of Social Work, Melbourne University • Dr Judy Straton - Senior Medical Advisor, National Centre • Professor Fiona Stanley AC - CEO of the Australian for Disease Control, Commonwealth Department of Health and Research Alliance for Children and Youth and Director of Ageing, Canberra Telethon Institute for Child Health Research • Ms Lynne McGuigan - Alliance National Coordinator • Mr Mark Sullivan - Secretary, Department of Family & • Ms Deirdre Croft - Alliance Communications Officer Community Services
Collaboration Working Group Clearinghouse Working Group • Professor Fiona Stanley AC (Chair) - CEO of the Alliance • Ms Carey Drake-Brockman (Chair) - Program & Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research Coordination Manager, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth • Dr Gabrielle Bammer - Senior Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. • Dr Michael Booth - Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dept of Paediatrics and Child Health, Westmead Hospital, NSW • Mr David Hazlehurst - Assistant Secretary, Family & Children's Policy Branch, Commonwealth Taskforce on • Dr Maggie Dean - Paediatrician (retired) Developmental Health & Wellbeing, Commonwealth • Associate Professor Ann Sanson - Deputy Director Department of Family & Community Services Australian Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne • Professor Brian Head - Deputy Director, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance National Data Network Working Group • Dr Marie Leech - General Manager, Community Services, Mission Australia • Professor Ian Rouse (Chair) - Information Services, Curtin University of Technology, WA • Mr Bob Marshall - Knowledge Teams International • Professor Dave Abel - Deputy Chief, Mathematical and • Dr Rob Moodie - Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Health Information Services, CSIRO, Canberra Promotion Foundation • Ms Carey Drake-Brockman - Program Coordination • Ms Lynne McGuigan – Alliance National Coordinator Manger, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth. • Associate Professor Dorothy Scott – Associate Professor, • Mr Jonathan Palmer - Chief Information Officer, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne Technology Services Division, ABS, Canberra • Professor Fiona Stanley AC - CEO of the Australian Research Agenda Working Group Research Alliance for Children and Youth and Director of Telethon Institute for Child Health Research • Professor Graham Vimpani (Chair) - Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, Newcastle University • Dr Judy Cashmore - Deputy Chair, Social Policy Research Centre University of NSW • Ms Carey Drake-Brockman - Program Coordination Manager, Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
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Organisational Members 2003
ACROD ACT Centre for Developmental Health WA Alcohol and other Drugs Council of Australia ACT Centre for Family Health and ANU Institute for Indigenous Australia ACT Midwifery University of Technology Sydney NSW Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies NSW Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) University of Technology Sydney NSW Australasian Cochrane Centre VIC Centre for Multicultural Youth Issues VIC Australian Association for Research in Education VIC Centre for Research into Adolescents' Health NSW Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) ACT Centre for Social Change Research Australian Bureau of Statistics ACT Queensland University of Technology QLD Australian Centre for Population Research ACT Centre for Youth Drug Studies Australian Childhood Foundation VIC Australian Drug Foundation VIC Australian Children's Television Foundation VIC Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland QLD Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies TAS Child and Youth Mental Health Service (Hunter) NSW Australian Collaboration VIC Child Development Network QLD Australian Confederation of Paediatric and Child Health Nurses WA Child Health Research Institute SA Australian Council for Educational Research VIC Children Services Tribunal QLD Australian Federation of Childcare Associations ACT Children's Cancer Institute Australia NSW Australian Federation of Homelessness Organisations ACT Children's Hospital at Westmead NSW Australian Infant, Child, Adolescent and Children's Welfare Association of Victoria VIC Family Mental Health Association NSW Christian Brothers (QLD - NT) QLD Australian Institute for Suicide Research and CIRCLE (Collaborative Institute for Research, Prevention Griffith University QLD Consulting and Learning in Evaluation), Australian Institute of Criminology ACT Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology VIC Australian Institute of Family Studies VIC Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety and Depression University of New South Wales NSW Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers (AIWCW) VIC Commission for Children and Young People NSW Australian Multicultural Foundation VIC Commission for Children and Young People QLD Australian National Schools Network NSW Commissioner for Children TAS Australian Network Academic Public Health Commonwealth Department of Family & Community Services ACT Institutions (ANAPHI) QLD CREATE Foundation NSW Australian Nursing Federation ACT Creche and Kindergarten Association of QLD QLD Australian Parents Council Inc NSW CSIRO - Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences ACT Australian Society for Medical Research NSW Curriculum Corporation VIC Australian Youth Research Centre VIC de Lissa Institute of Early Childhood & Family Studies SA Australians Against Child Abuse VIC Deaf Children Australia VIC Barnardos Australia NSW Department of Health WA WA Beyond Blue - National Depression Initiative VIC Department of Paediatrics Melbourne University VIC Big Brothers Big Sisters Australia Ltd VIC Department of Psychology Royal Children's Hospital VIC Byronchild Magazine (Byron Publications Pty Ltd) NSW DepressioNet VIC Carers Australia ACT Dusseldorp Skills Forum (DSF) NSW Centre for Adolescent Health VIC Education Foundation VIC Centre for Applied Economic Research Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry University of New South Wales NSW The University of Western Australia WA Centre for Community Child Health VIC Families Australia ACT
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Organisational Members 2003
Family Action Centre University of Newcastle NSW NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health NSW Family Services Australia Inc ACT NSW Research-Parenting Centre NSW Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia Inc ACT Nutrition Australia VIC Garvan Institute of Medical Research NSW Office of Children and Young People NSW Good Beginnings - National Parenting Project NSW ORYGEN Research Centre VIC Health Issues Centre La Trobe University VIC Our Community VIC Health Promotion Unit Northern Rivers Area Health Service NSW Philanthropy Australia VIC Helen Mayo House Women and Children's Hospital SA Playgroup Australia Inc NSW Injury Research Council The University of Western Australia WA Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australia NSW Inspire Foundation NSW Relationships Australia Inc ACT Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy (ISTP) WA Research Australia Limited NSW Jundah Aboriginal Corporation QLD Royal Australian College of General Practitioners VIC Key Centre for Ethics Law Justice and Governance QLD Royal Children's Hospital Foundation Research Centre QLD Key Centre for Women's Health VIC School of Public Health Queensland University of Technology QLD Kids Help Line QLD SDN Children's Services Inc NSW Koya Indigenous Research Group WA Smart Population Foundation NSW Lifeline Australia Inc ACT Social Policy Research Centre NSW MacKillop Family Services VIC St James Ethics Centre NSW Macquarie University NSW Sydney Attachment Parenting NSW Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic Telethon Institute of Child Health Research WA and Social Research University of Melbourne VIC The Australia Institute ACT Mental Health Council of Australia ACT The Australian Council for Children and Youth Organisations Inc VIC Menzies Centre for Population Health Research TAS The Benevolent Society NSW Menzies School of Health Research NT The Cancer Council Australia NSW Mission Australia NSW The Cancer Council of Victoria VIC Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development VIC The Centre for Independent Studies NSW Mothers and Babies Research Centre NSW The College of Nursing NSW Murdoch Childrens Research Institute VIC The Foundation for Young Australians VIC National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health The QUT Resilience Project, School of Public Health, Organisation (NACCHO) ACT Queensland University of Technology QLD National Association for the Prevention of The Smith Family NSW Child Abuse and Neglect NSW Tresillian Family Care Centres NSW National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health ACT Trust for Young Australians VIC National Children and Youth Law Centre NSW Uniting Care Australia ACT National Drug Research Institute WA Victorian Parenting Centre VIC National Ethnic Disability Alliance NSW Victorian Schools Innovation Commission VIC National Family Day Care Council of Australia Ltd NSW VSDC Services for Deaf Children VIC National Heart Foundation of Australia VIC WA Centre for Health Promotion Research National Institute for Governance ACT School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology WA National Institute of Labour Studies SA Young Media Australia SA National Rural Health Alliance ACT Youth Affairs Council of South Australia SA NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research NSW YWCA of Darwin NT YWCA of Sydney NSW 24 Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth ANNUAL REPORT 2003
Thank You to our Supporters
The Alliance acknowledges the practical and funding support Volunteers it has received during 2003 especially from the agencies and The National Office acknowledges the contribution of the individuals listed below. following people who undertook various administrative tasks and special projects for the Alliance on a voluntary Corporate basis during 2003. The following agencies have variously facilitated, contributed specialist advice and/or sponsored events and promotional • Kevin Chapman activities on the Alliance’s behalf on a pro bono basis during • Alison Harvey 2003 • Ayako Yamada. • Beacon Technology International • Boston Consulting Group The Alliance has benefited from cooperative relationships • Ernst & Young with a range of international collaborators including • Freehills • Assistant Professor Marni Brownel: Manitoba Centre for • Gem Consulting (Geoff Rasmussan) Health Policy • JP Morgan • Professor Clyde Hertzman: Director of the Population Health Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced • JB WERE Research • Wesfarmers. • Professor Daniel Keating: Early Child Development and Government Education, University of Toronto • Funding from the Commonwealth Government (through • Professor Terry Klassen: Director Cochrane Child Health the Interdepartmental Taskforce on Child Health, Field and, Director Alberta Research Centre for Child Development and Wellbeing and the Stronger Families Health Evidence (ARCHE) and Communities Strategy) • Jaleh McCormack: Research Administrator, Child Health • provision of office accommodation to house the national Research and Policy Unit, City University, London office from the Western Australian Government • Professor Fraser Mustard: Founding President and Fellow Philanthropic of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Seed funding from • Dr Sandra Nutley: Director of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation, Centre for Evidence Based Policy • The Baker Foundation and Practice in the UK • The Ian Potter Foundation • Dr Helen Roberts: Professor of Child Health, City • Lotterywest University in the UK • and the following individuals • Professor Noralou P Roos: Director, Manitoba Centre for • Gretel Ainsworth and Geoffrey Ainsworth Health Policy • Professor Trevor Sheldon: Co-principal investigator, • Michael Chaney “What Works for Children?” and Founder Director, NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York • Frank Cooper • Dr Gillian Pugh: international expert on early childhood • Peter Mason. development and CEO of the Coram Family in the UK.
Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth
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