THE FUTURE
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Mr Gary Sturgess is the principal of Sturgess Australia, a firm specializing in strategic policy advice to government and the private sector. He is a non-executive director on the boards of a number of Australian and international companies. From 1988 until late 1992, Mr Sturgess was Cabinet Secretary and Director-General of The Cabinet Office in the New South Wales State Government and, for ten years, the principal policy adviser to Nick Greiner. He has served on the boards of a number of other public sector and non-profit organisations, including the NSW Police Board and the Constitutional Centenary Foundation. Mr Sturgess is researching a book on ‘virtual government,’ looking at the impact of globalisation, privatisation and customisation on the future of government. He frequently lectures on the changing nature of public administration to public and private sector audiences.
Jane Connors joined the United Nations in 1996 where she is the Chief of the Women's Rights Unit in the Division for the Advancement of Women in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. She is responsible for the substantive and technical servicing of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the oversight of the work mainstreaming gender into the work of all UN human rights activities. She is a graduate in Law from the Australian National University and has taught human rights law in Australia and the UK.
Linda Burney is currently the Acting Deputy Director General of the NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Linda was actively involved in the 1997 National Reconciliation Convention as a member of the Executive Committee of the Reconciliation Council. She has also been President of the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and facilitated several conventions and workshops including the National Indigenous Constitution Convention (1988).
Professor Stephen Castles is Research Professor of Sociology and Director of an ARC National Key Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS) at the University of Wollongong.. His books include The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (with Mark J. Miller, London, Macmillan, 1993, second edition 1998), The Teeth are Smiling: The Persistence of Racism in Multicultural Australia (co-edited with Ellie Vasta, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1996) and Immigration and Australia: Myths and Realities (with William Foster, Robyn Iredale and Glenn Withers, Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1998).
Martin Ferguson MP AO is the Federal Member of Parliament for Batman, Victoria. Before entering Parliament in 1996 he was the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions for six years. He is currently the Shadow Minister for Employment, Training and Population.
Associate Professor Robert Manne is Associate Professor in Politics at Latrobe University. He is a former editor of Quadrant and a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers and speaks regularly on radio. His books include The Shadow of 1917 (1994, Text Publishing) and The Culture of Forgetting (1996, Text Publishing). He is a member of the Australian Citizenship Council.
Hon Philip Ruddock, MP is the Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation. He is the Federal Member for Berowra. On 22 September 1998, Mr Ruddock celebrated his 25th anniversary of his election to Parliament and became the "Father of the House" in the 39th Parliament. Mr Ruddock graduated from Sydney University (BA LLB) and before entering Parliament practiced as a solicitor.