Robert Redlich was appointed as a Victorian Supreme Court judge in 2002 and served as a trial judge for two years and then as a member of the Court of Appeal for 13 years before his retirement in 2017.  He was subsequently appointed Commissioner of the Independent Broad Based Anti-Corruption Commission in 2018 and retired from that position at the end of his 5 year term.  He maintained a general practice at the Victorian Bar across common law, commercial and criminal law jurisdictions.  He is a former President of the Victorian Bar.

Formerly CEO of Open Universities Australia, Secretary of the Victorian Department of Education & Training, Executive Director of Universities Australia, Secretary to the federal departments of Health and Environment and Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Department. Member os the boards of several other community organisations.

 Graeme Booth

TREASURER

Formerly Deputy Secretary for Roads in the Tasmanian Government, Graeme was a senior executive  and Director with an Australian global services firm SKM (now Jacobs).  He is now an Executive Coach and Company Director and active in helping his  local community increase their participation in elections at state and federal level.

BVSc (Melbourne); PhD (Monash) – Ministerial Responsibility and Accountability; Formerly: Veterinary Officer, Department of Agriculture (Victoria); Councillor, Rural City of Wodonga; MP, Cabinet Secretary & Speaker, Parliament of Victoria; Associate Professor, Monash University (Governance)

Dr John Hewson AM is a former Australian politician who served as leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. He has a doctorate in economics from Johns Hopkins University.

Chair, Victorian Branch, Australian Fabian Society. Former Research Associate, Social Science: School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University. Former research assistant, Monash University.

Peter Acton was Managing Partner of the Boston Consulting Group’s Melbourne office and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and of the Australian Institute of Managers and Leaders. His book Poiesis: Manufacturing in Classical Athens was published by OUP in 2014. He is Founding President of Humanities21, a not-for-profit advocacy organisation committed to promoting the importance of the humanities in work and personal life.

Geoffrey Watson specializes in product liability, professional negligence, general insurance and appeals. He has a national practice, appearing in the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of each of the States and Territories.

He writes and lectures on the subjects of tort law, insurance, anti-corruption law, and legal history. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame.