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Professor Stephen Garton AM
Professor Stephen Garton is currently a Professor of History and Principal Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sydney. He is the author or co-author of seven books and more than 80 articles and chapters on various aspects of Australian social and cultural history, the history of the British Dominions and aspects of American history, focusing on themes such as the history of madness, crime, masculinity and the aftermath of war.
Stephen is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Royal Australian Historical Society, and the Royal Society of NSW. He has also had a long career in university administration at the University of Sydney, serving as Head of the History Department (1996-8), Dean of the Arts Faculty (2001-9), Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2009-19) and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (2019-21). He was also interim Vice-Chancellor and Principal in 2020-21.
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Bret Walker AO SC
Bret Walker was admitted to the New South Wales Bar and as a practitioner of the High Court of Australia in 1979. He was appointed senior counsel in 1993 and served as the President of the Law Council of Australia from 1997 to 1998, and later as the President of the New South Wales Bar Association. Bret was Australia’s inaugural Independent National Security Legislation Monitor and has served as a member of numerous councils and foundations. He was the Chairman of the Law Council of Australia National Criminal Law Liaison Committee from 1998-2001, and continues to act as a Constitutional Law Advisor to the Law Council of Australia. Bret was also the Editor of the New South Wales Law reports from 2009 to 2018. He has been appointed to several inquiries as a Commissioner, including the Special Commission of Inquiry into Sydney Ferries (2007) and the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission (2018-2019). He most recently was appointed as Commissioner on the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Ruby Princess (2020).
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Lynn Lovelock
A parliamentary pioneer, Lynn Lovelock was the first woman to hold the distinguished role of Clerk of the Parliaments and, prior to that, was the first female Usher of the Black Rod at the NSW Parliament. Lynn joined the Department of the Legislative Council in 1987, was Usher from 1988 and Deputy Clerk from 1991, before serving as Clerk from 2007 until her retirement from the role in 2011. She clerked the Legislative Council Privileges Committee from 1991 until 2007, and was actively involved in the establishment of a parliamentary code of ethics and the development of procedures to safeguard returns of privileged papers before the House.
Lynn has written widely in the fields of parliamentary law and practice, and made critical contributions to parliamentary procedure during her time at the Parliament – including as co-author of New South Wales Legislative Council Practice, the definitive record of the Council’s rules and procedures. In 2005, she undertook the first major revision of the Council’s standing orders in nearly 110 years. While at the Parliament, Lynn was involved in setting up and training members of the first independent National Parliament of East Timor, and championed the program of 'twinned' relationships with legislatures in the Pacific to bolster parliamentary practice and procedure across the region. Research and history are passions for Lynn, who has most recently spent time in the UK scouring early records to help chart the birth of the first Legislative Council in NSW while working on her second novel.
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Chief Justice the Hon Andrew Bell
Appointed as President of the Court of Appeal on 28 February 2019, Andrew Bell was elevated to Chief Justice on 7 March 2022. After a succession of academic achievements at the University of Sydney and a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, he became one of the foremost experts on private international law and transnational litigation. His Honour was admitted to the Bar in 1995 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006. |
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Virginia Bell AC
Virginia Bell graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Laws in 1977. After seven years as a solicitor with the Redfern Legal Centre, she was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1984. Between 1994 and 1997 she was a counsel assisting the Royal Commission into the New South Wales Police Service. She was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1997. Virginia was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in March 1999. She was appointed a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal in 2008. She was appointed to the High Court in February 2009, and served until her retirement in February 2021. |
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Keith Mason AC KC
Keith Mason has been a solicitor, barrister, law reformer, Solicitor-General, President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, law teacher and mediator. He has published on topics including judicial method, legal taxonomy, the law of restitution, and the interface of law, morality and religion. Currently he is adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales, President of the Appellate Tribunal of the Anglican Church of Australia, and Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of New South Wales. Keith was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2003 for service to the law and legal scholarship, to the judicial system in New South Wales, to the Anglican Church, and to the community.
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Associate Professor David Andrew Roberts
David Andrew Roberts is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New England, where he researches Australia's early history and edits the Journal of Australian Colonial History. He is best known for his work on the history and legacy of Australia's convict past. His research is currently funded by a collaborative Australian Research Council grant for the project 'Inquiring into Empire: Remaking the British world after 1815'.
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The Hon Daniel Mookhey
Daniel Mookhey was elected to the Parliament of NSW on 6 May 2015 as a member of the Legislative Council. The son of Indian migrants, he was the first MP in an Australian Parliament and the first Treasurer to be sworn in on the Hindu religious text, the Bhagavad Gita. Prior to entering the Parliament, Daniel held senior roles in the Australian Council of Trade Unions and at the Transport Workers’ Union. Daniel is a formidable campaigner, parliamentary performer and policy developer. He describes himself as “a passionate advocate for the people of NSW, especially in rural and regional communities,” adding that, “as Treasurer, I will continue to find ways to improve their lives and stand up for workers’ rights”. |
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Associate Professor Carol Liston AO
Carol Liston is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Western Sydney University. She is former president of the Royal Australian Historical Society and past editor of its Journal. Carol's research covers early colonial history in NSW, with interests in people (convict, colonial born and free immigrant), local history, heritage and the built environment. Her particular interest is the colonial development of the County of Cumberland. Carol's publications include histories of Campbelltown, Parramatta and Liverpool, biographies of Sarah Wentworth and Thomas Brisbane, and accounts of social life under Governor Macquarie and the convict women at the Female Factory, Parramatta. Her current research project with Dr Kathrine Reynolds is an investigation of convict women transported from Britain to NSW between 1800 and 1836. |
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Margaret Crawford PSM
Margaret Crawford has many years of experience as a senior executive across large, complex public sector organisations – local, state and the Commonwealth governments – including the Victorian Department of Human Services, the Australian Taxation Office, the former NSW Roads and Traffic Authority, and Australia’s largest local government, Brisbane City Council. Before becoming Auditor-General for NSW, she held the position of Deputy Secretary at the former NSW Department of Family and Community Services. Margaret has worked across a diverse range of sectors, including housing and homelessness, community and disability services, road transport policy and regulation, taxation administration, and gaming regulation. |
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Sue Williams
Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist and travel writer, and a best-selling author of both non-fiction and historical fiction. Her novels have concentrated on the early colonial days of NSW and include
Elizabeth & Elizabeth, about Elizabeth Macquarie and Elizabeth Macarthur, and
That Bligh Girl, about Mary Bligh and her father, Governor William Bligh. Sue is currently working on a book about the previous Governor, Philip Gidley King, entitled
The Governor, His Wife and The Mistress. |
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Professor Frank Bongiorno AM
Frank Bongiorno is Professor of History at the Australian National University and President of the Australian Historical Association. His latest book is
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia (2022). Frank is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. |
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Professor Emerita Anne Twomey
Anne Twomey is a Professor Emerita of the University of Sydney, where she taught constitutional law for many years. She has also worked for the High Court of Australia, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Research Service, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee and the Cabinet Office of New South Wales. She has published the authoritative text on
The Constitution of New South Wales (Federation Press, 2004) and written about the State’s constitutional history. |
