YOUR UNION
The new NTEU National Executive: Michael Thomson (USyd), Lynda Davies (Vice-President General Staff), Andrew Bonnell (UQ), Margaret Lee (Qld Division Secretary), Linda Cecere (Adelaide), Gabe Gooding (WA Division Secretary), Ryan Hsu (Swinburne), Grahame McCulloch (General Secretary, back row), Colin Long (Vic Division Secretary), Jeannie Rea (President, back row), Matthew McGowan (National Assistant Secretary), Virginia Mansel Lees (La Trobe), Genevieve Kelly (NSW Division Secretary), Terry Mason (IPC Chair), Jan Sinclair-Jones (Curtin), John Sinclair (ACU), Kelvin Michael (VicePresident Academic), Mel Slee (RMIT), Kevin Rouse (SA Division Secretary), Stephen Darwin (ACT Division Secretary). Absent: Lolita Wikander (NT Division Secretary) Jillian Miller retired as the Indigenous Policy Committee (IPC) Chair, who also sits on the Executive. Jillian, Coordinator of Indigenous Student Services at UniSA brought a long history as a union, education and community activist to the Executive. She made a memorable contribution to the 6th World Congress of Education International in Cape Town last year when she called on EI to get on with implementing standing policy to support Indigenous education workers. Jillian continues to represent South Australia on the IPC. Also retiring from the National Executive were Susan Price, John Fitzsimmons and Helen Masterman-Smith. Terry Mason retired as a Council elected member, but returns to the Executive as the new IPC Chair. Serving on the National Executive, along which also includes the Division Secretaries and full time National Officers, is a serious undertaking with enormous responsibility to ensure that the Union operates properly and is representative of the interests of members. NTEU members are very well served by our National Executive members.
NOVEMBER 2012 www.nteu.org.au
Retiring as Vice-Presidents were Gabe Gooding (General Staff ), and Professor Greg McCarthy (Academic). Over the past two years, Gabe and Greg provided leadership in their respective general staff and academic areas to the National Executive working parties established to develop the claims for this round of bargaining. Their counsel, as part of the national leadership team, has been important over the past two years with the changeover of two of the three fulltime elected officers. While Gabe continues on the Executive as the new WA Division Secretary, Greg leaves to focus upon his education leadership role at the University of Adelaide, where he is Head of the School of Social Sciences. Greg has been on the Executive for 8 years and Vice-President for three terms. He has provided leadership on research policy and advocacy, representing NTEU and Australian researchers nationally and internationally, including at the OECD. A Jeannie Rea, National President Below Left: Daryl D’Souza, RMIT. Below Right: Alex Simms, NZ TEU Vice-President.
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