1999 State Heritage Convention Report

PRESENTERS' BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

The following biographical details of presenters have been provided for information.

The Hon David Kingsley Malcolm AC was appointed Chief Justice of Western Australia in 1988. In 1990 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Western Australia. In 1992 he was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. He graduated with an LL.B from the University of Western Australia in 1959 with first class honours and was a Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia in 1960. In 1962 he obtained his BCL at Oxford with first class honours. He was admitted to practice in 1964. He was a partner with the firm Freehill Hollingdale & Page and its predecessor firm in Perth from 1964 to 1979. He acted as Counsel and Deputy Counsel for the Asian Development Bank based in Manila between 1967 and 1970. He practised widely in many areas of the law including commercial and corporate law, mining, media, shipping and administrative law. He was Chairman of the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia in 1976 and from 1979 to 1982 and a member of the Copyright Tribunal from 1979 to 1982. He was Queens Counsel from 1980 to 1988, President of the Western Australian Bar Association from 1981 to 1984 and Vice-President of the Australian Bar Association in 1984. He was Vice-President of the Law Society of Western Australia from 1986 to 1988 and Chairman, Town Planning Appeals Tribunal from 1978 to 1986. He has been the Chairman of the Judicial Section of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific since 1991. He is the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Crime Research Centre at the University of Western Australia, President of the Western Australian Branch of the International Commission of Jurists and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law.

Peter King took up a three-year appointment as Chairman of the Australian Heritage Commission on 4 March 1998. Mr King has been a Sydney barrister since 1979 and specialises in international, constitutional and admiralty law. He was a member of Woollahra Council for four years from 1987, where he served as Mayor. Experience in conservation issues from the community perspective came from Mr King's work as pro bono adviser to Landcare Walcha as well as convenor of an urban environmental group which was instrumental in the Commonwealth Government's decision to establish the Clean Air Inquiry in 1997. Since 1995 he has been a Judicial Member of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal of New South Wales. In 1998 Mr King initiated Australia's first nation wide heritage convention in Canberra. The Convention was the first major national gathering of people from across the range of heritage perspectives - historic, indigenous, and natural.

Richard Utting was born in WA. He was conscripted into the army and graduated from officer training school as a second lieutenant. He saw service in Vietnam in 1968. He graduated from the University of WA with a Law degree and was admitted to practice in 1973. He joined the Independent Bar in 1981. He is a past president of the Criminal Law Association and a public commentator on the criminal justice system and civil liberties. Richard was a presenter on ABC radio for two years where he established a register of endangered species for speed cameras. In 1997, he was elected Mayor of the City of Fremantle. Since then he has extracted $1 million from the State Government to restore the Roundhouse and has led the fight to keep the Dockers in Fremantle.

Adrian Fini is the Managing Director of the Fini Group of Companies and has qualifications in Commerce and Design. He is responsible for direction setting and total management of the Group's divisions, including project development, construction, property management, hospitality and retirement housing. The Fini Group is a major WA development company, whose activities have given them extensive experience in the adaptation of heritage buildings and dealing with heritage agencies.

Ricky Burges is the Director General of the Ministry for Culture & the Arts. Prior to this, she was the Chief Executive Officer of Perth Zoo. Ricky's background is in Management and Human Resources. Immediately prior to working at Perth Zoo, Ricky was the Director of Human Resources at the Western Australian Tourism Commission for seven years. She is currently completing the final unit in a Masters in Leadership and Management at Curtin University of Technology. She already has a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Development. Ricky has also completed four years of psychotherapy training with the Gestalt Therapy Institute and is a recognised Gestalt Therapist and Marriage and Family Counsellor. Ricky is on the Board of Australian Institute of Management, Brightwater, Edge Employment, Kids Help Line, and is a Perth Zoo Society Trustee. In June 1998 Ricky was appointed to the post of Director General for the Ministry for Culture & the Arts. This new Ministry consists of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, The Western Australian Museum, The Library and Information Service of Western Australia, Perth Theatre Trust, ScreenWest and ArtsWA. In September 1997, Ricky Burges was awarded the honour of being voted the Western Australian Businesswoman of the Year by the Australian Institute of Management.

Dr Jenny Gregory is Director of UWA Press, President of the National Trust (WA), and a member of the Heritage Council of WA and Fremantle Prison Trust. She is an Historian and was Director of the Centre For WA History between 1989 and 1997. Her publications include Western Australia between the Wars (1991), Building a Tradition: a history of Scotch College (1996), On the Homefront: WA &World War ~I (1996) and, with Geoffrey Bolton, Claremont: a History (forthcoming 1999). She co-ordinated the development of the CD-ROM Traces of the Past: the National Trust Register of the Built Heritage of Western Australia (1997). She joined the Historic Sites Committee of the National Trust in 1989 and was elected to Council in 1994.

Mr Carl Binning
As a senior research economist at CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology, Carl Binning has a professional interest in and commitment to the integration of economic and social issues with environmental policies. His research is focused on designing economic incentives and institutions for sustainable natural resource management. In the last 3 years his research has concentrated on developing mechanisms for the conservation of biodiversity outside public nature reserves. A primary aim of this research has been to evaluate the role of innovative policy instruments such as covenants, management agreements and financial incentives in securing voluntary private investment in nature conservation. Of particular interest in today's talk are the results of his most recent research that has evaluated the role of local government in managing native vegetation. Prior to joining CSIRO, Mr Binning worked as an environmental economist within the Commonwealth Environment Department and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. In this period he participated in the Ecologically Sustainable Development process, the Council of Australian Government Water Reforms and the development of Regional Forest Agreements.

Dr Brian Whelan
For 23 years until 1995, Dr Whelan conducted environmental and agricultural research in CSIRO, ranging from tobacco in north Queensland to groundwater pollution from septic tanks, sub-clinical selenium deficiency in sheep, and precision farming techniques, using GPs technology in Western Australia. Since 1995, he has been the Director of the Trust for Nature (Victoria), a statutory authority previously known as the Victorian Conservation Trust. The Trust's primary focus is the permanent protection of remnant vegetation in on private land in Victoria. It is currently developing new concepts to extend the voluntary conservation program to permanently protect private conservation land by a Revolving Fund and Land exchange program and investigating the role of incentives such as tax deductibility, rate rebate and stewardship support. Brian Whelan was the National President of the Australian Institute of Agricultural Science and served part-time as an officer with the Australian Army Reserve.

Mr Leo Ryan
Since 1996 Leo Ryan has been the Program Officer Conservation Partnerships, Brisbane City Council. His professional background has been in Law and in the Environment and he holds degrees in both disciplines. Previously, Leo was with the Queensland Department of the Environment as Temporary Senior Conservation Officer. He has tutored in Law at the Universities of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. He has also taught part-time in Biology with the Queensland Department of Employment, Education and Training. In his work with the Council Leo Ryan has been responsible for managing the Voluntary Conservation Agreements Program which administers the equivalent of covenants (still not recognised in Queensland) agreements between the Council and land owners for the protection of remnant bush. He co-authored the NHT funding application which commenced the Land for Wildlife program amongst 9 local governments in South East Queensland. Thirteen local governments are now committed to LFW and Leo serves on the program's Steering Committee. The Brisbane City Council has been among the foremost at local government level in Australia, in creating partnerships with private land owners for the protection of remnant bush, within a metropolitan area. Since Mr Ryan's time with the Council, the Voluntary Conservation Agreements Program has been awarded a Banksia Environmental Award as a finalist in its category, the Local Government Association Award for Excellence in Environmental Management and the Lord Mayor's Award for Excellence.

Irene Stainton is the Assistant Director, Aboriginal Heritage, Culture & Policy Advice and Registrar of Aboriginal Sites, in the Aboriginal Affairs Department. Irene is also Chairperson of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee, WA Museum; Board Member, Berndt Museum of Anthropology at University of Western Australia and member of the Child Support Registrar's Advisory Panel, Canberra. Irene was previously Director of Yorganop Child Care Aboriginal Corporation. Irene has also worked for the Department for Community Development and Homeswest. Irene was guest speaker at "Sorry Day", Parliament House, Perth in 1998. She has also presented a discussion paper on Stolen Children at Curtin University, and represented the Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Services Australia at the Technical Meetings on the International Year and the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Populations which was hosted by the United Nations and held in Geneva, Switzerland in July 1994 and 1995. Irene also presented a Discussion paper on behalf of Yorganop Child Care Aboriginal Corporation, Perth, to the Fifth Australasian Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in October 1994.

Stephen Carrick is Manager Conservation & Assessment with the Heritage Council of Western Australia. After graduating in Architecture from the University of New South Wales he worked in private practice in NSW for seven years as an Associate with Tropman & Tropman Architects before accepting a position as Conservation Architect with the Building Management Authority in WA, in 1992. At the BMA he was responsible for State Government owned heritage places including the Fremantle Prison. He joined the Heritage Council in 1997. He is a member of the Fremantle Prison Trust, Government House Grounds Committee, Shire of Swan Heritage Working Group and a former National Trust Councillor and former Chairman of the Cultural Environment Committee of the Trust.

Dr Robyn Taylor works as an independent research historian in the fields of art, architecture and cultural heritage. She undertakes documentary histories for heritage assessments and conservation plans, and has worked on various art related projects for local government. She is a Councillor of the National Trust, a member of ICOMOS, and was an inaugural member of the Heritage Council of Western Australia. She is the Chair of the National Trust's Monuments, Memorials & Outdoor Cultural Materials Committee, and State co-ordinator of the national survey of Sculpture, Monuments & Outdoor Cultural Materials.

Dr Nikki Miller is Manager of ArtSource: an employment agency for visual artists. As a registered employment agency for visual artists, ArtSource's role is to simplify the process of selecting and employing artists. They have a slide and computer database with images and information on over 250 experienced artists. ArtSource also offers a project development service and sells the Public Art Practical Guidelines. Nikki's doctorate studies were in visual communication. She has worked as a lecturer, art critic and curator. She is a member of the National Trust's Monuments, Memorials & Outdoor Cultural Materials Committee

Meredith Walker is a heritage planning consultant with a background as a town planner in local government. She has worked on staff of National Trusts in New South Wales and Queensland. As a consultant she has worked throughout Australia on a wide variety of heritage projects including studies of towns and conservation plans for museums in historic buildings. She has specialised in heritage studies for local government, place museums, and professional standards for heritage practice. Meredith has taken an active role in encouraging community participation in heritage identification and management. In 1995 Meredith Walker and Penny Pike prepared a strategy for heritage management in Fremantle which included several community workshops. Meredith has prepared guideline documents about heritage management including the Protecting the Social Value of Public Places recently published by the Australian Council of National Trusts. Meredith has been actively involved in the development and review of The Burra Charter, the standard for good practice for cultural heritage places in Australia, prepared by Australia ICOMOS, and is co-author of "The Illustrated Burra Charter: making good decisions about the care of important places", which has won awards in New South Wales and Queensland and is used for heritage management throughout Australia and overseas. Meredith was a member of the NSW Museums Advisory Council, and a past president of Australia ICOMOS, (the Australian National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites) who nominated her for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, of which she is currently a member.

Lyn Leader-Elliott is Director of Leader-Elliott and Associates Pty Ltd, a South Australian based company specialising in cultural and heritage tourism. Lyn's experience in many sectors of the tourism industry includes marketing, public relations, urban and regional development, tour planning and tour guiding, heritage policy development and administration, tourism training and arts administration. Lyn has been working on a model and workshop for Best Practice for heritage and cultural tourism for around two years. The work is funded by the Commonwealth Department for Communication and the Arts and the Department of Industry, Sport and Resources.