GALLERY OF ACHIEVEMENT INDUCTEES 2026
Mr Chris GILLETT (2005)
Chris is one of the country’s most awarded investigative documentary TV producers. He won Australian journalism’s highest honour – the Gold Walkley – with Adele Ferguson for their childcare exposés on Four Corners, which uncovered systemic failures and widespread physical and sexual abuse. The stories led to nationwide reform. His projects include uncovering dangerous medical devices making patients sick, Medicare fraud, retirement village deceit and exposing fake food. He was part of the team that secured the first sit-down interview with Lawyer X Nicola Gobbo from her international hideaway. He is a four-time Walkley winner, has won a New York Film Festival World Medal, a Logie and Quills.
Mr Warren PINK (1976)
Warren Pink enjoyed an outstanding playing career spanning over a decade at the highest levels of Australian basketball. From 1979 to 1990, he played more than 235 NBL games, competing in the finals in six of those, representing the Nunawading and Eastside Melbourne Spectres. Simultaneously, he represented Nunawading in the Victorian Basketball League (VBL) for over 250 games, winning three VBL State Championships. His international playing experience included tours to the USA, New Zealand, and the Philippines as part of an Australian All-Stars selection. He was part of the Victoria Under 20 State team that won the National Championship in 1978, earning selection in the Australian Under 20 National Squad. Selected in an All-Star senior Victorian team in 1986, he served as Club Captain from 1988–89 under NBL coaching identity Brian Goorjian, and as Vice-Captain from 1986–87. In 1995, he represented Victoria Police at the World Police and Fire Games, winning Gold and defeating the Los Angeles Police Department in the final. As a coach, Pink operated at the highest domestic and national levels. He served as Head Coach of the Dandenong Rangers men’s program in the SEABL (NBL1) and Victoria Championship from 1991–95, achieving a 75% win-loss record. Most notably, he served as an Assistant Coach in the Australian Under 17 Men’s National Network Program, working at Development Camps that included future NBA players Dante Exum (Utah Jazz, 5th pick) and Ben Simmons (No. 1 overall pick), with those squads achieving Silver Medal results at the 2012 and 2014 World Championships. Pink also served as Network Elite Coach with Basketball Victoria from 2003–2009 and coached Queensland South Under 16 Men to a Silver Medal at the 2012 Australian National Championships. Warren gratefully acknowledges former CGS teacher Les Maklary, whose unwavering belief, encouragement, and support during his student years played a formative role in shaping the player and coach he became.
Mr Brendan SCHWAB AM (1985)
Brendan is an architect of the global and Australian player association movements. Over a 30-year career – including eight years based in Europe as Executive Director of the World Players Association, the global peak body for the player association movement – Brendan has led and collaborated with the strongest player associations in the world and conducted multiple campaigns and rounds of collective bargaining. As the lawyer, then CEO and later Chair of Professional Footballers Australia (PFA), Brendan played a key role in the transformation of Australian soccer, built on the creation of a new governing body, new professional leagues, collective bargaining, engagement with Asia, and gender equality. In 2022, he was inducted into the Football Australia Hall of Fame, the first Australian to receive this honour in any sport for their work as a player union leader. Brendan has helped pioneer and advance the global sport and human rights movement by advocating for human rights commitments with major sports bodies such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and FIFA and co-founding the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA). He has fought landmark campaigns and cases for athletes and many other people impacted by sport (such as US Muslim basketballer Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir, Bahraini footballer refugee Hakeem alAraibi and the Afghan women’s national football team). On Australia Day 2026, Brendan was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to professional sport as a lawyer, and as an advocate for athletes’ rights.
Mr Tony Sheehan AM (1984)
Dr Michael WILLIAMS (1966)
The Gallery of Achievement The Camberwell Grammar School Gallery of Achievement was established to acknowledge and celebrate the success of generations of Old Camberwell Grammarians.
Tony worked in government for 32 years, most recently as Deputy Secretary at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with responsibility for International Security, Humanitarian, Consular, Middle East and Africa, and Legal Divisions. Prior to this, he was Commonwealth CounterTerrorism Coordinator responsible for coordinating Australia’s Counter-Terrorism arrangements for the Prime Minister. He was Chair of the Australia-New Zealand Counter Terrorism Committee.
Graduating from Monash University with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1972, Michael trained in Paediatrics at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and in Bristol, UK. In 1980, he became Mackay’s first consultant paediatrician, establishing both the region’s paediatric service and the Child & Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) at Mackay Base Hospital, where he served as Director. He provided outreach paediatric clinics in the Mackay region’s rural towns until 2018.
Earlier, Tony served as Deputy DirectorGeneral of ASIO. He had previously held several senior executive positions in the Attorney-General’s Department, including Deputy Secretary with responsibility for National Security, Criminal Justice and Emergency Management, and Chief Operating Officer. He also served as First Assistant Secretary, Homeland and Border Security, in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Tony also spent 19 years with DFAT, including postings to Taipei, Beijing and Jakarta.
A pioneer in rural telehealth, Michael established a telehealth partnership with the Children’s Hospital Brisbane in 1997, enabling subspecialist paediatric services to reach Mackay and surrounding rural communities. In 2016, he expanded this work by establishing the Queensland Paediatric Telehealth Service, improving access to paediatric consultation for children and adolescents across rural Queensland. He published 10 papers on telehealth between 1998 and 2021 and presented widely on its role in rural healthcare, alongside 10 additional papers on paediatric medicine.
Since leaving government, Tony has worked as an independent national security consultant. As of 2026, he was contributing to the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. Tony is Chair of the RAND Australia Advisory Board, a nonexecutive director of Australian Volunteers International, and a Distinguished Advisor to the Australian National University’s National Security College. A graduate of Monash University, Tony majored in Mandarin, building on language studies he began at Camberwell Grammar School. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has experience serving on ASX-listed company boards. Tony was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division for significant service to Australia’s national security, and to public administration in the King’s Birthday 2026 Honours List.
Michael has been an Associate Professor at James Cook University and served on committees with the RACP, Queensland Health and AMAQ. His dedication to rural and remote healthcare has been recognised with numerous honours, including Excellence in Health Service Awards from the Mackay Regional Health Authority in 1992 and 1993, the RACP Medal for Clinical Service in Rural and Remote Areas in 2000, and the AMA Queensland Rural Health Award in 2022. Beyond medicine, Michael has been a passionate environmental advocate. He served for 28 years as President of the Mackay Conservation Group and has been an active member of the Doctors for the Environment Australia Queensland committee, advocating for links between environmental sustainability and health. In recognition of this lifelong commitment, he was named Environmental Philanthropist of the Year at the 2025 Queensland Gives Philanthropy Awards.
It is an ongoing, evolving project, which aims to inspire current and future students to pursue excellence in a wide range of careers, community service and sport. A detailed biography of each past student inducted will be included in a Gallery of Achievement Perpetual File, to be held in the Camberwell Grammar School Community and Development Office. Some of these biographies have been edited for space. Full biographies are available at www.ocga.org.au.
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