Appendix 1: Members of the Tribunal
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Appendixes APPENDIX 1: MEMBERS OF THE TRIBUNAL TRIBUNAL MEMBERS, Members 30 JUNE 2014 Dr IS Alexander (G,V) President Mr R Bartsch (G) The Hon Justice DJC Kerr, Chev LH Dr M Couch (G,V) Mr N Gaudion (G) NEW SOUTH WALES Dr H Haikal-Mukhtar (G,V) PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Dr W Isles (G,N,V) Professor GAR Johnston AM (G,V) Federal Court Professor RC McCallum AO (G,N) The Hon Justice AC Bennett AO Professor TM Sourdin (G,V) The Hon Justice RF Edmonds Dr SH Toh (G,N,V) The Hon Justice JM Jagot The Hon Justice N Perram VICTORIA Deputy Presidents The Hon BJM Tamberlin QC PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Mr RP Handley Federal Court Appendix 1: Members of the Tribunal Professor R Deutsch The Hon Justice SC Kenny Mr SE Frost The Hon Justice JE Middleton NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Deputy Presidents Miss SA Forgie Senior Members Mr JW Constance Ms G Ettinger (G,S,T,V) Ms FJ Alpins Ms NP Bell (G,N,S,V) 2013–14 Annual2013–14 Report Ms N Isenberg (G,S,V) NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Mr PW Taylor SC (G,T,V) Senior Members Ms JF Toohey (G,N,S,V) Mr JR Handley (G,N,T,V) Ms AK Britton (G,N,S,V) Mr GD Friedman (G,S,V) Mr D Letcher QC (G,N,T,V) Mr FD O’Loughlin (G,T,V) Ms JL Redfern (G,N,S,T,V) Mr E Fice (G,S,T,V) Mrs G Lazanas (G,T,V) Members Dr TM Nicoletti (G,V) Dr R Blakley (G,V) Administrative Appeals Tribunal Tribunal Appeals Administrative Ms L Coulson Barr (G,N) 116 Brigadier C Ermert (ret’d) (G,T,V) Deputy President Dr GL Hughes (G,T,V) Ms KJ Bean Dr RJ McRae (G,N,V) NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Ms RL Perton OAM (G,N,S,V) Senior Members Miss EA Shanahan (G,V) Mr RW Dunne (G,T,V) QUEENSLAND Dr NA Manetta (G,V) Members PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Professor D Ben-Tovim (G,N,V) Federal Court Lt Col R Ormston (ret’d) (G,S,V) The Hon Justice AP Greenwood Professor PL Reilly AO (G,N,V) The Hon Justice JA Logan RFD Mr I Thompson (G,N) Deputy Presidents Mr PE Hack SC WESTERN AUSTRALIA Mr I Molloy PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Federal Court Senior Members The Hon Justice AN Siopis Mr BJ McCabe (G,S,T,V) The Hon Justice ML Barker Associate Professor PM McDermott RFD Deputy Presidents ( G,T,V ) Mr SD Hotop Dr KStC Levy RFD (G,T,V) The Hon RD Nicholson AO Mr RG Kenny (G,T,V) NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Members Dr ML Denovan (G,V) Senior Members Dr GJ Maynard, Brigadier (ret’d) (G,V) Mr S Penglis (G,T,V) Dr M Sullivan (G,V) Ms CR Walsh (G,T,V) Dr PL Wulf (G,T) Members Dr JL Chaney (G,V) SOUTH AUSTRALIA Mr WG Evans (G,V) PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Dr ARL Frazer (G,V) Ms KL Hogan (G,S,T,V) Federal Court Brigadier AG Warner AM LVO (ret’d) (G,S,V) The Hon Justice JR Mansfield AM APPENDIXES Family Court The Hon Justice CE Dawe 117 TASMANIA NOTES Presidential members and Senior Members are PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS listed by date of appointment to the Tribunal in that category of membership. Members are Family Court listed alphabetically. The Hon Justice RJC Benjamin Presidential members may exercise the powers of the Tribunal in all of the Tribunal’s divisions. Senior Deputy President Members and Members may exercise the powers of the Tribunal only in the divisions to which they The Hon RJ Groom AO have been assigned. The divisions to which Senior Members and Members have been assigned as at NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS 30 June 2014 are indicated as follows: G General Administrative Division Senior Member N National Disability Insurance Scheme Division Ms AF Cunningham (G,N,S,T,V) S Security Appeals Division T Taxation Appeals Division Members V Veterans’ Appeals Division Ms S Taglieri (G,N) Dr RJ Walters RFD (G,V) APPOINTMENTS AND CESSATIONS, 2013–14 AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY NEW APPOINTMENTS PRESIDENTIAL MEMBER Senior Member Dr Nicholas Manetta Family Court Member Lynne Coulson Barr The Hon Justice MM Finn Member Professor Ronald McCallum AO Member Sandra Taglieri Appendix 1: Members of the Tribunal NON-PRESIDENTIAL MEMBERS Member Ian Thompson Senior Member Professor RM Creyke (G,N,S,T,V) RE-APPOINTMENTS Members The Hon Brian Tamberlin QC Air Vice-Marshal FD Cox AO (ret’d) (G,V) Dr B Hughson (G,N,V) CESSATIONS Mr MG Hyman (G) The Hon Justice Dennis Cowdroy OAM 2013–14 Annual2013–14 Report Mr S Webb (G,T,V) The Hon Justice Bruce Lander Dr PS Wilkins MBE (G,N,V) Senior Member Narelle Bell Member Dr Kerry Breen AM Administrative Appeals Tribunal Tribunal Appeals Administrative 118 MEMBER PROFILES THE HON JUSTICE DUNCAN KERR, CHEV LH LLB BA (SocW) President First appointed 16 May 2012; current appointment until 15 May 2017 Justice Kerr became a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in May 2012. He was elected to the executive of the Council of Australasian Tribunals in June 2013 and as Chair in June 2014. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania. Before his appointment, Justice Kerr practised as a barrister and specialised in public law, constitutional and administrative law, refugee and human rights law and appellate work. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2004. He was also President of Greening Australia Ltd in 2011–12. Justice Kerr served in the Commonwealth Parliament as the member for Denison for 23 years (1987–2010). He was Attorney-General (1993) and Minister for Justice (1993–96) in the Keating Government and Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs (2007–09) in the Rudd Government. Before his election to the House of Representatives, Justice Kerr served as Crown Counsel for the State of Tasmania, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Papua New Guinea and Principal Solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW). DR ION ALEXANDER MBBS (Hons) LLB FRACP FCICM Part-time Member, NSW First appointed 2 August 2004; current appointment until 25 October 2014 Ion Alexander is a Senior Staff Specialist at Sydney Children’s Hospital at Randwick and was a Clinical Director from 2001 to 2008. In September 2011, he took up a temporary appointment as Associate Director of Medical Administration at the Children’s Hospital Westmead. He has been a member of the NSW Health Care Complaints Peer Review Panel since 1997 and was a member of the Professional Services Review Panel from 2001 to 2010. FIONA ALPINS BComm LLB (Hons) Part-time Deputy President, Vic First appointed 5 April 2012; current appointment until 4 April 2017 Fiona Alpins has been a member of the Victorian Bar since 1996, having been admitted to practice in Victoria in 1995. She practises mainly in revenue law and also practises in commercial law. Deputy President Alpins was a Senior Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne in 2002 and 2004–05, where she lectured in superannuation law to postgraduate students. APPENDIXES From 1997 to 2002, she lectured at Central Queensland University in subjects including commercial law, contract law and taxation law. 119 RONALD BARTSCH BA BSc LLB LLM DipEd Part-time Member, NSW First appointed 11 April 2013; current appointment until 10 April 2018 Ronald Bartsch has extensive experience in aviation consulting and auditing having established Aviation Consultancy Services in 1986. He has wide ranging operational and senior management experience in the aviation industry, occupying positions as Head of Safety and Regulatory Compliance at Qantas and Manager of Air Transport with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. Mr Bartsch is currently the Managing Director of AvLaw Pty Ltd, an international aviation consultancy firm that provides specialist advice to the aviation sector on a range of operational, legal, regulatory and safety issues. He is also a Director of Regional Express Holdings Ltd and a Director of the Australian Association of Unmanned Systems. Mr Bartsch is an experienced pilot, a former high school mathematics and science teacher, currently a Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Aviation at the University of New South Wales and the author of numerous aviation publications. He has formal qualifications in the arts, education, law and science and was admitted as a barrister of the High Court of Australia in 1993. KATHERINE BEAN BA LLB MA GradDipLegPrac Full-time Deputy President, SA First appointed 7 December 2009; current appointment until 31 May 2018 Katherine Bean was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1990. She joined the office of the Australian Government Solicitor in Sydney the same year and remained with the AGS until 2009, first in Sydney and later in Adelaide. Immediately prior to her appointment to the Tribunal as a Senior Member, she held the position of General Counsel with the AGS. Deputy President Bean has extensive administrative law experience, having practised in the Appendix 1: Members of the Tribunal Tribunal since 1996, including in the immigration, social security, veterans’ affairs and workers’ compensation jurisdictions. She was appointed as a Deputy President of the Tribunal in 2013. During 2013–14, Deputy President Bean was the Executive Deputy President for South Australia, and a member of the Tribunal’s Executive Deputy Presidents Committee and the Practice and Procedure Consultative Group. NARELLE BELL BA LLB Full-time Senior Member, NSW 2013–14 Annual2013–14 Report First appointed 1 July 2001; current appointment until 30 June 2014 Narelle Bell was appointed to the Tribunal as a full-time Member in 2001 and as a full-time Senior Member in 2004.