BOARD & STAFF

REDFERN-WATERLOO AUTHORITY BOARD

Chair - Dr Col Gellatly

Dr Col Gellatly is the current Chairperson of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority, as of 1 July 2007. Dr Gellatly is the former Director-General of the Premier’s Department, a role which he held since being appointed in 1994. He has held a number of senior management positions within the NSW public service, including as Director General of the Department of Land and Water Conservation. He has been NSW representative on a wide range of State/Commonwealth Working Parties and Committees and has had three periods as a part-time Commissioner with the Industries Assistance Commission. He has also served on a diverse range of boards and committees. Dr Gellatly has a degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of New England, a Master of Commerce from the University of NSW and a PhD from North Carolina State University.

CEO – Mr Robert Domm

BA LLB (Mon) MLLR (Syd) GDLP (ANU)

Robert Domm is Chief Executive Officer of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority and Managing Director of the Australian Technology Park. He previously spent four years at the City of Sydney where he was General Manager during a period of unprecedented growth and change, through Council boundary changes and amalgamation with South Sydney Council. He served for three years as a Director and Company Secretary of the Sydney Festival Limited. A qualified legal practitioner and former labour advocate, Mr Domm has also worked as an adviser to Government. He brings broad experience and a strong commitment to social justice to the workings of the Authority.

Mr Michael Collins

Michael Collins is Chair of the Heritage Council of NSW. He is also on the Boards of the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and the Australian Technology Park. He is the Managing Director of Michael Collins & Associates Pty Limited, a property consultancy company which advises private and public sector clients and specialises in land economics, real estate valuations and feasibility studies. He served as National President of the Australian Property Institute from 2003 to 2004 and was NSW President from 1999 to 2001. Mr Collins played a key role in the redevelopment of Darling Harbour and the planning of Olympic Park, and served as chief property consultant to the NSW Government for the Sydney 2000 Games. He has served on many industry committees including the City of Sydney Development Advisory Committee and the City of Sydney Venues Management Board.

Mr Richard Johnson MBE

Richard Johnson is an award winning architect, Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of New South Wales and a Director of Johnson Pilton Walker Architects. He is an Associate of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and the Japan Institute of Architects, and a Member of the Design Institute of Australia. Mr Johnson was involved in the design of the Australian embassies in Beijing and Tokyo. He is the Chief Architect for the Sydney Opera House and is also currently working on projects including the Australian War Memorial, the Hilton Hotel and the Asian wing of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He also serves on the Board of the Australian Technology Park and the Australian Architects Association. Mr Johnson has a Bachelor of Architecture (1st Class Honours) from the University of NSW and a Master of Philosophy (Town Planning) from University College, London. In 1976 he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to Architecture.

Ms Samantha Mostyn

BA LLB

Ms Sam Mostyn has an extensive background in law, management and politics. She is currently the Group Executive, Culture & Reputation at Insurance Australia Group where she has responsibility for managing the Human Resource, Organisational Effectiveness, Corporate Affairs, Government Relations & Policy, Corporate Sustainability and Community Engagement functions. Over the past four years her team has developed a corporate, social and environmental sustainability plan for the company with particular focus on integrating the company’s internal cultural issues and business planning with external customer, corporate and community activities.During 2003 IAG was recognised as a leader in sustainable business planning and received Ethical Investor magazine’s award for Sustainable Company of the Year.Prior to joining IAG in February 2002 Sam was the Director of Corporate Development and Acting Human Resources Director at Cable & Wireless Optus. She also spent two years in London in the role of Group Director, Human Resources for Cable & Wireless Plc. Sam has a BA/LLB from the Australian National University. She is a member of the NSW Premier’s Greenhouse Advisory Panel, and is a Board member of the Sydney Theatre Company, the Centenary Institute, and the Redfern-Waterloo Authority. She is a Trustee of the Australian Museum and in 2005 was appointed as a Commissioner with the Australian Football League.

Ms Lucy Turnbull

LLB MBA

Lucy Turnbull was Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney from 2003 to 2004, Deputy Lord Mayor from 1999 to 2003 and has recently been appointed an Administrator of Tweed Shire Council. She has extensive experience in planning, business and investment banking. She currently chairs many companies, both private and public, including WebCentral Group Limited, and Pengana Holdings Limited. Former chair of the NSW Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Biotechnology, Ms Turnbull has also served on the NSW Government’s Information Industry Business Advisory Board. She is the author of Sydney – Biography of a City (1999) and has assisted with several community based initiatives in the Redfern area. She also serves on the Board of the Australian Technology Park.

Mr Warren Mundine AIMM MAICD

Warren Mundine was born in Grafton, NSW, the ninth child of eleven children to Olive Bridgette (Dolly) Mundine (nee Donovan) and Roy Mundine. Dolly is a Gumbayngirr woman and Roy a Bundjalung man. Warren was brought up in a proud Aboriginal family .

Warren was the 2006 - 2007 National President of the ALP, he is the current Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary of NTSCORP Ltd, a member of the Australian Institute of Management and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Executive member of the National Native Title Council Ltd, Chair of NSW Labor’s Indigenous Policy Committee, former President and a Honorary Life Member of the NSW Local Government Aboriginal Network, the former Deputy Mayor of Dubbo and former Chair of NSW Country Labor. He also is an Executive member of the St. Joseph’s College Indigenous Fund, a Board member of NAISDA, a member of the Community Expert Advisory Committee of IAG and had previously served on the NSW PCYC State Board, a former Executive member of the Local Government Association of NSW, a commissioner with the NSW Local Government Grants Commission. Warren formerly was also a member of the NSW Attorney General’s Juvenile Crime Prevention Committee.

Ms Ann Weldon

Ann Weldon was born in the segregated section of the Cowra Hospital in NSW and grew up on the nearby Erambie Reserve. She is a proud member of the Wiradjuri Nation and currently lives in Sydney.Ann became involved in Aboriginal Affairs at a very young age. She grew up learning about her Wiradjuri Nation’s history and the other Aboriginal nations beyond the borders of Wiradjuri country. Her forefather and mothers had orally passed down the true history and the plight of her people. They taught her about Windradyne the warrior, who resisted and fought the white invaders stealing their land. She was taught that her great-grandparents where forbidden to teach the Wiradjuri language in fear the Mission Manager would take the children. Ann was inspired by the matriarchs of her family, they were Mum Shirl, Aunty Biddy (Pauline Coe), Aunty Moody (Muriel Merritt), Aunty Aggie (Agnes Coe), her mother (Frances Haroa) and her Ninny Wedge (Isabell Wedge - Mum Shirl’s eldest sister). Ann is one of the founding members of the NSW Aboriginal Children’s Service. This organisation was founded in 1975 to advocate on behalf of Aboriginal children and aim to cease the adoption and fostering of Aboriginal children into non-Aboriginal care.

The influence of her treasured aunty, Mum Shirl, lives on through the Aboriginal Children’s Service, the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Aboriginal Medical Services for this is the legacy that she has left to Wiradjuri and indeed the Aboriginal nations of Australia. Ann believes that Aunty Shirley gave endlessly and unselfishly to Aboriginal children, Aboriginal people and to anyone that was disadvantaged. If we all possess just a little of what Aunty Shirley offered, we would make each others’ life much easier and complete.

Ann has held positions with the NSW Aboriginal Legal Service, Aboriginal Children's Service, Department of Aboriginal Affairs, NSW Aboriginal Land Council, and the Central Sydney Area Health Service. Ann has held executive positions and is a member of the Murawina Aboriginal Preschool, Aboriginal Housing Company, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, Marrickville Aboriginal Consultative Committee, Aboriginal Housing Development Committee, the ATSIC National Women's Advisory Committee, the ATSIC National Sport and Recreation Committee.

Ann was a member of the Sydney ATSIC Regional Council for over 10 years, including a term as Chairperson. Ann has been an activist in Aboriginal affairs for over 35 years.

Ann was appointed to the inaugural Aboriginal Housing Board in 1998 as an ATSIC nominee. She has been Chairperson of the NSW Aboriginal Housing Board since firstly appointed in 2000.

Her educational qualifications include an Advanced Accountancy Certificate and she is currently undertaking a Masters of Business Management.Ann believes that the housing conditions of Aboriginal people will only be improved when Aboriginal housing is affectively managed by and for Aboriginal people. In keeping with Wiradjuri tradition, Ann believes in “leaving legacies and not building empires” for all Aboriginal people in NSW.

Redfern-Waterloo Authority Organsational Chart (including Australian Technology Park)

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