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Commonwealth Round Table in Australia

The Rt Hon Malcolm Fraser AC CH
Patron

  • Elected to Federal seat of Wannon 1954
  • Minster for Army 1966-68
  • Minister for Education and Science 1968-69
  • Minister for Defecne 1969-71
  • Leader of the Opposition 1972-75
  • Prime Minister of Australia 1975-83
  • Chair of CARE Australia

 

Professor Low

Professor Anthony Low
Convenor CRTA

  • Vice Chancellor Australian National University 1975-82
  • Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge University 1983-94
  • Chairman, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University 1984-94
  • Chairman The Round Table, London 1992-94

Mr Hugh Craft
Co-Convenor

  • Former Australian diplomat and senior Australian and international civil servant
  • Head of CHOG 2001 and 2002 Task Forces
  • Director International Affairs Dvision Commonwealth Secretariat 1979-88
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 1971-99

Ms Jane Drake-Brockman
Member

  • International trade policy consultant
  • Convenor Australian Services Round Table
  • Former senior public servant Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Treasury

Mr Tony Eggleton
Member

  • Vice-Chairman of CARE Australia
  • Member of the Australian Aid Advisory Council
  • CEO National Council for the Centenary of Federation 1997-00
  • Chief Executive of CARE Australia 1995-96
  • Former Director of Information, Commonwealth Secretariat, London (1971-74).

Mr Steve Etheridge
Secretary

  • Extensive career in the Commonwealth Public Service
  • Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • Senior member of the CHOGM 2001 and 2002 Task Forces

Professor Donald Markwell
Member

  • Warden Trinity College University of Melbourne
  • Secretary of The Round Table London
  • Fellow Merton College Oxford 1996-97
  • Rhodes Scholar Queensland 1981

Mr Patrick McClure
Member

  • CEO Mission Australia since 1997
  • Chair Prime Minister's Business and Community Partnership Board
  • President NSW Association of Major Community Organisations 2000-01
  • CEO Society of St Vincent de Paul (NSW/ACT) 1993-96

Professor Margaret Reynolds
Member

  • School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland
  • Senator for Queensland 1983-99
  • Minister for Local Government 1987-90
  • Minister for the Status of Women 1988-90
  • Council for the Reconciliation, 1991-96
  • Parliamentray Representative to the UN General Assembly 1997

Professor Deryck Schreuder
Member

  • Former Vice-Chancellor University of Western Australia
  • Former President Vice-Chancellors' Committe
  • Vice-Chancellor University of Western Sydney 1994-98
  • Visiting Professor College of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Sydney
  • Chair Australian Universities Quality Agency
  • Editing 'Australia' volume of Oxford University Press History of the British Empire
  • Member Association of Commonwealth Universities and the European Universities Association


Mr Graham Tupper
Member

  • Executive Director Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA)


Mr Pieter Wessels
Public Affairs and Media

  • Journalist and media consultant
  • Chairman Commonwealth Journalists' Association - Australian Chapter
  • Head of TV and Current Affairs, Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1987-88
  • Journalist ABC News 1964-89

Mr Terry Walls
Public Affairs, Media and Web Manager

  • Extensive career in public affairs for government, the private sector and national associations currently back in the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
  • Principal of Solutions Focussed Consulting
  • Member of the CHOGM 2001 and 2002 Taskforces' Communications Team