Interview: Tony Hung, A/Senior Director Human Resource Services, Public Trustee Queensland

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? My journey across the Queensland Public Sector (QPS) has been colourful, if I can make an attempt at selecting a descriptive word. Following completion of my tertiary education and practical experience …

Interview: Sandra McLean, A/Executive Director Innovation Governance Strategy, Department of Innovation, Tourism Industry Development and the Commonwealth Games

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? I have spent most of my professional life working as a journalist which took me around Australia and the world working for newspapers and magazines. This was sparked by my love for words and writing as …

Interview: Alvaro Maz, Co Founder and Managing Director, Code for Australia

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? Back in 2013, I was part of a startup and entrepreneurship program where I met our now co-founder and Board member Dan Groch. Dan and I were building our own separate companies and while we were doing…

Interview: David Tucker, Superintendent, Commander, Policelink

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? This year marks 37 years in policing, from uniform duties, to plain clothes investigations, legal duties as well as officer in charge and District Officer managing disasters it has been an interesting j…

Interview: Amy Brown, Deputy Secretary, Strategy & Delivery, Department of Premier and Cabinet (NSW)

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? I’ve been working on complex commercial and infrastructure projects for 17 years. A decade of that was as a project finance lawyer in Sydney, London and the Middle East. After having my 2 kids (and star…

Interview: Karen Oborn, Chief Executive Officer, Shire of Carnamah

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? This journey has been a long one. I started work at 17 as a bank teller. Then I had a few roles as basically an assistant accountant. As I didn’t have the formal qualification, I wasn’t able to be emplo…

Interview: Elizabeth Tydd, NSW Information Commissioner / IPC CEO / NSW Open Data Advocate

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what this role entails? As Information Commissioner and CEO of the IPC I have a broad and interesting regulatory responsibility covering over 220 entities across five different sectors. Each of these sectors has a unique differ…

Interview: Isabella Wallington, Manager Innovation Business Development & Innovation, NSW Department of Primary Industries

Tell us about the journey to your current role and what it this role entails? I’m currently managing an Innovation program at Department of Primary Industries based in Orange. My journey to this role is an interesting one. I’m actually an anthropologist by degree and began my …