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Chairman, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod has extensive business and public sector experience. Prior to his appointment to the ACCC, Rod was formerly deputy secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Bob Hawke, Chairman of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal of New South Wales, Chairman of InfraCo Asia, Commissioner on the National Competition Council, Director of Ingeus Limited, and a member of the Research and Policy Council of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia. Rod was also a Director of Port Jackson's Partners Limited where he advised for many years the CEOs and Boards of some of Australia's top 50 companies on commercial corporate strategy.

Julian Burnside Julian Burnside AO QC (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate and author. He joined the Bar in 1976 and took silk in 1989. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide array of high-profile cases. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009, "for service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law". He was also senior counsel for Liberty Victoria in the litigation following the "Tampa crisis" in 2001.

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Matthew completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Melbourne and his postgraduate degree in international refugee law at the University of Oxford. Before coming to the Bar in 2010, Matthew was the sole researcher to Geoffrey Robertson QC at Doughty Street Chambers, London. He has also worked as associate to Justice Habersberger of the Supreme Court of Victoria's Commercial and Equity Division, researcher to the Solicitor General for Victoria (now Justice Tate of the Victorian Court of Appeal), and researcher for the Law Faculties of the University of Oxford and University of New South Wales. He has a particular interest in refugee law and asylum seekers, and was junior counsel to Debbie Mortimer SC in the High Court challenge to the Government's "Malaysia Solution" policy on asylum seekers.

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Heather Ewart is an ABC journalist who, in a diverse career that has encompassed print, radio and television journalism, has reported in bureaus in Canberra, London, Washington and Brussels. She won the 2007 Monash University Gold Quill for Excellence in Victorian Journalism and is one of the ABC's most experienced and skilled reporters and presenters. She has also held the role of Chief Political Correspondent in Canberra for ABC radio. Heather has reported for the ABC on Australia's asylum seeker policy and both on- and off shore detention centres, including in relation to the Christmas Island boat crash in late 2010. Her work as National Affairs correspondent for the ABC has also taken her to Christmas Island in recent weeks to report on the early stages of the implementation of the Government's "Malaysia Solution" policy.

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Anna Booth is a director of, CoSolve, a workplace relations consultancy. She currently sits on the boards of Industry Super Holdings and Slater & Gordon and was formerly on the boards of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, NRMA and the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. She is a disability rights activist and chair of the newly formed organisation Workplace Australia which is dedicated to making Australian workplaces more sustainable, innovative, productive, participative and fair.

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Helen was appointed director of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA) this year. She spent ten years on the NSW Equal Opportunity Tribunal including three years as its Senior Judicial Member. Helen practiced for many years as a lawyer and then joined the corporate sector where she held various executive positions in companies covering the insurance, transport, downstream oil, retailing and construction industries. In addition she has held various directorships in the health, transport and superannuation sectors.

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Kathleen is ANZ's Group General Manager, Global Shared Services (GSS) where she's responsible for overseeing the design and delivery of HR, Finance and Sourcing scalable processes and professional services to ANZ globally. Her experience ranges across large corporates to professional services firms in industries as diverse as IT, Financial Services and law. She has held roles ranging from Chief Executive Officer, to Marketing and Sales Director. Kathleen has a passion for creating healthy and successful businesses in which the customers are delighted and the people thrive.

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