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Victorian
Environmental Assessment Council Member Profiles
Duncan Malcolm AM
(Chairperson)
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Duncan
Malcolm is a former dairy farmer and horticulturalist from east Gippsland,
and has extensive experience in natural resource management. He is
the immediate past Chairperson of the Gippsland Coastal Board, member
of the Gippsland Lakes Task Force, trustee of the Australian Landscape
Trust and, amongst other roles, a member of the Monash University
Gippsland Campus Advisory Board. He has chaired many natural
resource management bodies including Lakes and Wilderness Tourism,
Watermark Inc., the Irrigation Association of Australia Ltd and the
East Gippsland Catchment Management Authority. With extensive experience
in the water sector at state and national level Duncan was for eleven
years a board member of the Rural Water Commission of Victoria and
its successor body, the Rural Water Corporation of Victoria.
Duncan was awarded the Order of Australia in 2007 for service to conservation
and the environment through executive roles with a range of natural
resource management organisations, and to the community of East Gippsland. |
Barry Clugston
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Barry
Clugston is a farmer from Stawell in western Victoria, with extensive
experience as a land manager with farms and natural ecosystems, particularly
relating to biodiversity, salinity and Landcare. Barry is chairman
of Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water Corporation and a former board member
of the Wimmera Catchment Management Authority and Wimmera Leadership.
He is an exhibiting artist and heavily involved in community affairs.
Barry is a naturalist who for many years presented a regular wildlife
program on ABC radio. |
Ian Harris
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Ian
has had over 30 years experience in the planning and management of
land for public use and conservation at both state and local government
levels. His career has involved responsibilities for on
the ground land management in regional Victoria and urban Melbourne
as well as state-wide policy development and program implementation
for national parks and flora and fauna protection. More recently
Ian has been responsible for the management of the City of Melbourne’s
world class urban parks, street trees and recreational centres, based
on long term sustainability principles. Ian has extensive experience
in effectively engaging the community in decision-marking relating
to the management of public land, has presented courses on the planning
of urban open space at RMIT University, and has prepared open space
plans for local government. Ian currently chairs the Victorian National
Parks Advisory Council, the Reference Areas Advisory Committee and
is a director of the Parks Forum, the peak body for park management
agencies across Australia and New Zealand. |
Ian Munro PSM
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Ian
Munro is a consultant for the Department of Innovation, Industry and
Regional Development (DIIRD), a board member of the Growth Areas Authority
and the former Deputy Secretary and CEO, Invest Assist for DIIRD.
Ian has a comprehensive knowledge of government across areas including
regional development, infrastructure, technology, the environment,
and has chaired or been a member of numerous government expert committees
and policy review committees. He has extensive experience of natural
resources and flora and fauna issues on public land across Victoria.
Ian was awarded the Public Service Medal in 2007 for outstanding public
service, particularly in the provision of an investment facilitation
model and in the continued economic development of Victoria. |
Airlie Worrall
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Airlie
Worrall is a policy analyst by profession and a historian by training.
She specialises in rural industry and community policy development
and is currently Executive Manager Commodities at the Victorian
Farmers Federation, responsible for the operations and policy development
work of the grains, livestock, dairy, horticulture and intensive
industries sections of the VFF. Airlie trained in Australian history
at Melbourne University, doing research into 19th century land reform
movements and the Victorian wool textiles industry. She has been
an academic and an industrial heritage consultant, serving on the
National Trust and the Victorian Historic Buildings Council classifications
committees. As a policy analyst, she has worked in the Victorian
food, textile, wool processing and timber harvesting industries
and served as Senior Adviser to several Agriculture Ministers.
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