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Trustees The Hon. Barry O’Keefe AM QC is a former Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, Judge of the Supreme Court NSW, QC in NSW, Vic, ACT, NT and WA, Member Executive Law Council of Australia and is currently the President of the National Trust Australia. He is currently Chairman of CEFA's Board of Trustees.
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Mrs Joy Chambers-Grundy has had a distinguished career in Television, Literature and the Arts as an author, actor and poet. For 15 years she was a Director of Grundy Worldwide, the largest Independent Television Company in the world and she now holds the position of Chairman of RG Capital Holdings Ltd.
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Major General Michael Jeffery AC AO (Mil) CVO MC (Retd) is a former Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and a former Governor of Western Australia. He served operationally in the army in Malaya, Borneo, Papua New Guinea and Vietnam and commanded the Army’s 15,000 man 1st Division. He also served in various senior staff appointments in operations, logistics and equipment procurement. |
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Mr Thomas Keneally AO is President of the Australian Society of Authors and member of the Literary Arts Board. He was founding Chairman of the Australian Republican Movement and distinguished Professor at the Department of English at the University of California.
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Dame Leonie Kramer AC DBE is former Chancellor and Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, National President of the Order of Australia Association, and Member of the Board of Studies NSW and was a Delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention.
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Lady Potter AC is the Life Governor of the Ian Potter Foundation, Chairman Melba Foundation, Patron-in-Chief Melbourne Opera Company, Director Covent Garden Awards, Director of Ian Potter Museum of Art at University of Melbourne.
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The Hon. Barrie Unsworth is a former Premier of New South Wales and Chairman of the Australia Day Council (NSW). He is Chairman of the State Transit Authority and Ambulance Services Board (NSW).
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All Trustees are also Foundation Councillors of CEFA. Foundation Council Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC is an Author and Historian, Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne, and a governor of the Ian Potter Foundation. Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton AO is Chancellor and Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University and ABC Boyer Lecturer 1992.
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Dr Kym Bonython AC DFC AFC KSJ is a company director and former board member of the Australia-Japan Foundation. ABC Radio Broadcaster 1937-1975.
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Professor Greg Craven is the Executive Director of the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy and Chair in Government and Constitutional Law at Curtin University. He was also a member of the ‘Yes’ Committee in the 1999 Republic Referendum.
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Dr John Hirst is an Author and Historian at La Trobe University. He was formerly a member of the Prime Minister's Republic Advisory Committee, Chair of the Commonwealth Civics Education Group, and is currently a Council Member for the National Museum of Australia.
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Major General W B Digger James AC AO (Mil) MBE MC is a company director and former Director-General of Army Health Services, and former National President of the RSL 1993-1997.
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Associate Professor Gregory Melleuish is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Wollongong. Since 2000 he has been the President of the Asia Pacific Affiliate Branch of the World History Association.
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Sir David Smith KCVO AO is a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law at Australian National University. He is Director of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
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Dame Elisabeth Murdoch AC DBE is philanthropist and Trustee of the McClelland Regional Art Gallery. She was Victorian of the Year in 2005.
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Mr Hugh Morgan AC is a Director of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia, President of the Business Council of Australia, Co-Chair of the Commonwealth Business Council; President of the Australia Japan Business Co-operation Committee.
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The Honourable Sir Laurence Street AC KCMG KStJ QC is a Commercial Mediator and Disputes Consultant. He is a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW and Lieutenant Governor of NSW. He is a former Chairman of John Fairfax Holdings Ltd.
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The Honourable Justice Lloyd Waddy RFD is a Judge of the Family Court of Australia, and Chairman of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. He is a Foundation Director of the Australia-Britain Society.
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Professor George Williams is a Barrister. He is also the Anthony Mason Professor and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law at the University of New South Wales. He is a co-editor of the Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia.
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