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Chair
Cain Beckett
- Cain was born with Cerebral Palsy and is a passionate
advocate for removing barriers for people with
disabilities.
- Non-executive Director of Cerebral Palsy Alliance
(CPA) formerly the Spastic Centre of NSW, since
2003. Until joining the Council, also Chaired the
Alliance's NHMRC affiliated Human Research Ethics
Committee.
- Full time role with Perpetual, part of the senior
leadership team responsible for the Corporate Trust
division since 2007. Cain manages the securitisation
operations team.
- Prior to this worked for 10 years as a successful
management and technology consultant in Australia, USA
and Europe including working on projects for the
Australian Government.
- Former Australian archery representative.
- Lives in Sydney with his wife Sara and daughter
Eleanor.
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Council Members
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Simon Darcy
- As a power wheelchair using quadriplegic with high
support needs, Simon has been involved in numerous
disability related organisations, and represented on
government and private sector committees to promote the
rights of people with disability.
- Simon is an Associate Professor at the UTS Business
School where he specialises in the management of events,
sport and tourism.
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Unis Goh
- Unis has a physical disability which was acquired as
an infant as well as a family connection with
disability.
- Unis has had a long and well recognised career in
change implementation and business improvements in the
public service and non-government sector. This culminated
in her receipt of the 2009 Public Service Medal for
outstanding service to community housing in NSW. She led
the implementation of a performance based registration
system in the community housing sector in NSW. This
system sought evidence from community housing providers
in ensuring accountability of quality client services
delivery, ethical governance of boards and financial
viability of their organisation for a sustainable
community housing sector.
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Michele Nealon
- Michele has worked in a variety of commercial and
community organisations. Within community organisations
her career has focused on building relationships and
raising community awareness across a range of subjects
including extreme poverty, independent telecommunications
for people with disabilities and suicide prevention.
- A current member of the boards of the Disability
Discrimination Legal Centre and the Deafness Council of
NSW.
- Michele has recently completed a Masters of Community
Management through the University of Technology,
Sydney.
- For relaxation, Michele can most frequently be found
walking briskly along a beach or engaging with a keyboard
of the musical kind.
- Michele has a congenital hearing loss.
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Roslyn Sackley
- Ros is a blind Aboriginal woman from Lake Cargellico
in the central west of NSW but living on the Central
Coast.
- Ros is a teacher and very much interested in the
education and meaningful employment of people with
disability.
- Ros is also a member of the Association of Blind
Citizens of NSW and the Secretary of the Deaf Blind
Association of NSW, as well as being part of a social
inclusion committee at Macquarie University where she is
currently employed as an Accessibility Adviser.
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Robert Strike
- Robert has a mild intellectual disability and is an
advocate and educator in the area of intellectual
disability.
- Robert set up Self Advocacy Sydney of which he is
President and is on the Board of Directors of the NSW
Council for Intellectual Disability.
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The newly appointed Council members are
Sally Robinson, Carmel Flavell, Chris Sparks, Laura
O'Reilly, Maria Katrivesis,
Paul Raciborski, Steve Widders and Ya'el Frisch.
Biographies on the new members will be added to the
website shortly.
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Council Secretariat
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Melinda Savvides, Executive Officer
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Diana Qian, Senior Policy Officer
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Adam Bannon, Policy Officer
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Kristine Schneider, A/Project Officer
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Roxana Knittel, Assistant Policy Officer
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