13-Oct-08 07:16pm AEDT
Dr Clark joined the ALP International team after a successful career in public life spanning some 20 years as an elected representative at both the local and state government levels.
During her time in the Queensland Parliament as member for Barron River she served as Deputy Speaker and was a member and chair of a number of Committees. Dr Clark served on the executive of the Queensland Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) and was Chair of the world wide Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians group for a term. Her government experience included serving as Parliamentary Secretary (Assistant Minister) to the Minister for Health and to the Premier.
Dr Clark is well known as a successful marginal seat campaigner and has contributed her campaign expertise to elections at all levels of government in Queensland.
A strong advocate for gender equality Dr Clark began her international training work with the CPA when she shared her experience with candidates and parliamentary colleagues in gender workshops in Papua New Guinea, Tonga and New Zealand in 2005/6.
An ALP International Trainer since November 2006 she has contributed to workshops in Indonesia and the Philippines aimed at increasing the number of women in parliament and helped to launch the Political Caucus for Women Leaders in Mindanao. Last year she developed and delivered the inaugural “Women! Campaign to Win” workshop for women from PNG, the Solomon Islands and Timor Leste.
Dr Clark also represented the ALP on international election observer missions in the Philippines and PNG.
Geoff Gallop and the Graduate School of Government partnered with Australian Labor's International Projects unit to design and deliver the highly successful course for political advisors from Asia and the Pacific.
The course will be a regular feature of Australian Labor's commitments to strengthen democracy in our region.
Professor Geoff Gallop was the Premier of Western Australia from 2001 to 2006.
He was a Minister in the Lawrence Labor Government from 1990 to 1993 (holding a range of portfolios most notably Education, Fuel and Energy and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) and when that Government was defeated in 1993 he took up a range of Shadow Ministerial appointments. In 1994 he was elected Deputy Leader of the State Parliamentary Labor Party and in 1996 he was elected Leader.
As Premier, he oversaw a range of political and social reforms (electoral reform, gay and lesbian equality and a State Administrative Tribunal), upgraded the State’s industrial and labour laws, brought a spirit of reconciliation to the resolution of Native Title and developed partnership models for the State’s indigenous communities, changed the law to require all 16 and 17 year olds to be in education or training, was the first Premier to commit his government to a major desalination plant, stopped the logging of all of the State’s Old Growth Forests creating record numbers of new national parks, restructured the State’s electricity and racing industries, and started construction of the Perth to Mandurah Railway and City Tunnel.
As Minister for Science he established the Science Council, committed significant funding to Research and Development in the State, and established the Premier’s Research Fellowship Program to attract leading researchers from overseas and interstate.
Geoff has been involved in a range of educational, community and sporting associations over many years and from 1983 to 1986 he was a Councillor at the City of Fremantle.
In 2001 he was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal and was honoured with Life Membership of the Association for the Blind ( Western Australia).
In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia and on the 4th April 2006 he was admitted to the Honorary degree of Doctor of Letters by Murdoch University.
Paper Beats Rock was founded by Joe Hay and Tammy Franks in 2007 with a focus on cross media social marketing and draws on their extensive government and NGO campaign experience. Paper Beats Rock has been working in partnership with International Projects to develop and deliver practical democratic development programs in the region.
These programs include election observation missions during the 2006 Victorian State and 2007 Federal Elections, an internationally acclaimed campaign kit for PNG's new electoral system and contributing to and assisting with the delivery of a regional women's campaign training program and its associated resources.
Paper Beats Rock is currently working closely with International Projects to develop the online political resource ConstantCampaign.Org.