Australian Maritime Issues 2007 - Royal Australian Navy

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AUSTRALIAN MARITIME ISSUES 2007: SPC-A ANNUAL
Commander Steve Cole, RANR
Commander Steve Cole joined the Royal Australian Naval Reserve in 1987 as a seaman
officer. He has extensive sea experience on heavy landing craft (LCH), including
reactivating and recommissioning HMAS Balikpapan. He has been employed by
the RAN on full-time service for the past ten years and was Port Services Manager
at Darwin Naval Base from 1998 to 2001. This coincided with a period of significant
escalation of RAN activity in the north, including fleet exercises such as KAKADU 4
and 5, and the first East Timor crisis. He currently serves as Deputy Director Navy
Environmental Policy at Navy Headquarters and is an authority on environmental
matters. In his civilian career Steve has been a lecturer in Horticulture at the Northern
Territory University between 1991 and 1998 and a research officer with CSIRO from
1985 to 1990.
Mr Andrew Forbes
Mr Andrew Forbes is the Deputy Director Research in the Sea Power Centre – Australia,
where he is responsible for the research and publication programs. He is a Visiting
Senior Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Oceans Resources and Security at
the University of Wollongong, and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy
Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
Dr Gregory P. Gilbert
Dr Gregory P. Gilbert worked as a naval designer within the Australian Department
of Defence (Navy) between 1985 and 1996. He was a Defence contractor until 2002.
He has broad research interests including the archaeology and anthropology of
warfare, Egyptology, international relations – the Middle East, maritime strategy
and naval history. He is currently the Senior Research Officer in the Sea Power
Centre – Australia.
Lieutenant Commander Sue Harling, RAN
Lieutenant Commander Sue Harling joined the Womens Royal Australian Naval Service
(WRANS) as an Administration Officer in 1982. During the past 26 years she has worked
in a wide variety of training, human resources and policy positions, the highlight of
which was Executive Officer of HMAS Cerberus (2000-02), after which she undertook
18 months full-time civil schooling enabling her to commence post graduate studies
at Monash University. She completed her Master of Management degree in 2006, and
commenced doctoral studies in February 2007, also through Monash University. She
is currently the Operations Manager of the Supply & Health Faculty, a position she
has held since November 2005.