Appendix 2 - Northern Territory Emergency Response Review Board
Appointment
On 6 June 2008 the Australian Government appointed the NTER Review Board to conduct an independent and transparent review of the NTER by 30 September 2008. The Board is chaired by Mr Peter Yu, who chaired the Halls Creek Project Management Committee in Western Australia. Ms Marcia Ella Duncan, former Chair of the New South Wales Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce, and Mr Bill Gray AM, former Australian Electoral Commissioner, are the other members of the Board. Short biographical details of the Review Board members are below:
Peter Yu
Mr Yu is a Yawuru man from Broome in Western Australia. He has 30 years working experience in Aboriginal communities, predominantly in the Kimberley. He has represented Aboriginal interests at the local, state, national and international levels. He is a consultant working in the area of Indigenous public policy. He has recently been the Chair of the Project Management Committee appointed by the Western Australian Government to oversee the strategic intervention in Halls Creek. Until recently he was the Chair of the WA Aboriginal Housing Board and was previously the Executive Director of the Kimberley Land Council and at the forefront of campaigns to secure land rights and reconciliation in Western Australia.
Bill Gray AM
Bill Gray has spent 20 years in the NorthernTerritory and 20 years in Canberra. The bulk of his career has been as a public servant in the field of Indigenous affairs. He was appointed Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs (1988), inaugural CEO of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (1990–91), CEO of the Australian Government's Office of Northern Development based in Darwin (1992–95) and was appointed the Australian Electoral Commissioner (1995–2000). Following his retirement, Mr Gray has undertaken various consultancies in the Northern Territory, including the negotiation of long-term leasing agreements between Indigenous communities and the Australian and Northern Territory Governments.
Marcia Ella Duncan
Ms Ella Duncan is an Aboriginal woman who has worked extensively in Indigenous affairs within New South Wales. Ms Ella Duncan has extensive experience in a service delivery and policy capacity in juvenile justice and child protection issues in New South Wales. She was the Chair of the NSW Aboriginal Child Sexual Assault Taskforce. She has previously managed issues such as the 2004 Redfern riot and has been a particularly strong advocate of interventions in the Sydney Aboriginal community to combat violence and in particular sexual violence against Aboriginal children in her role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Sydney Regional Council Chair.