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Women’s representation has remained less than 2% for twenty five years in core trades. Tradeswomen Australia said the growing voices of women around Australia is providing a focus for all [...]

Workplace Diversity Officer (Tasmania) Dr Tanya Paterson has worked in the gender equity arena for many years across Australia, including TAFE NSW Women's unit, NSW State Rail, Victoria University and the Department of Education and Training.  She has a doctorate in Organisational Behaviour and is the author of Women in Vocational Education and Training. Tanya now resides in Northwest Tasmania and works with Tradeswomen Australia to increase diversity and inclusion in workplaces and encourage women’s participation in trades.

Apprentice Engagement Officer Fearghus has worked in both commercial and NFP organisations and is currently completing a Bachelor of Business/Commerce from Deakin University.  A key experience for Fearghus was working with Jesuit Social Services in their Corporate Diversity Partnerships Program and seeing so many talented and experienced people being passed over because of negative societal and cultural biases.

Communications & Marketing Officer Alison Manton is an experienced and formally qualified marketing practitioner with a background in sales, media, communications and publishing.

Non-Executive Director Luana Melis is a general counsel, company secretary and director with over 20 plus years experience in the property and construction industry.  This includes positions with Mallesons (now King Wood Mallesons), funds manager QIC and developers Grocon and Time & Place.   

27 January 2022   Women’s Growing Voices to Break Down Employment Barriers in the Trades Employment of women in trades an election issue The growing voices of women around Australia [...]

Charmaine has been a Partner at PwC for 12 years and currently leads PwC’s Enterprise Digital business.  This is where industry and subject matter expertise is combined with leading coding capability, delivering custom machine learning, robotics and platform solutions to automate data normalisation, calculations, visualisations and outputs.

Richard Dent OAM FAICD has exercised leadership for a better world for more than 25 years.  As a Chair, Board Member, CEO and Executive across multiple for-purpose organisations he has focused on inclusion, equity, governance, strategy and leadership. 

Ruth Palmer is a well-known business leader in the Northern Territory. With a Master of Business and over seven years of experience as Executive Director of the Property Council of Australia, she has become an adept and strategic leader in membership-based organisations.

Radmila Desic AM migrated to Australia at the age of seven after an earthquake destroyed her family home in Bar in the former Yugoslavia. Radmila began her career as an apprentice Carpenter Joiner in 1992. In 2010 Radmila received the 1st Place Gold Winner of the inaugural 2010 Centre for Leadership for Women’s National Advancement of Women in the Workplace Award (AWWA) for developing and implementing a state-wide strategy for Women in Construction.