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MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIAProfessor Heather Jeannie HERBERT, Dubbo NSW 2830For service to tertiary education, particularly through improvements to educationaloutcomes for Indigenous people, and to the delivery of learning opportunities acrossregional and remote northern Australia.Foundation Chair, Indigenous Studies, Charles Sturt University.Director, then Vice-Chancellor, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, NorthernTerritory, 2006-2009.Honorary Professional Fellow, Australian Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Education,since 2011.Council Member, James Cook University, 1998-2001; Chair, Indigenous Australian Studies,2001-2006; Head, School of Indigenous Australian Studies, 1998-2002; Director, Centre forAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Participation, Research and Development, 1997.Director, Oorala Aboriginal Centre, University of New England, 1996-1997.Chair, Principals Australia Dare to Lead National Steering Committee, since 2008; CommitteeMember, since 2004.Committee Member, Standing Committee on Indigenous Education, Australian Council forEducational Research, since 2007.Member, Indigenous Higher Education Advisory Council, Commonwealth Department ofEducation, Employment and Workplace Relations, 2004-2009.Member, National Indigenous Vocational Education Training Advisory Taskforce, 2007-2008.Advisory Board Member, Yachad Accelerated Learning Project, since 2008.Member, TIMSS-PISA National Advisory Committee, ACER national assessment, since 2009.Chair, Tropical North Queensland Institute of TAFE, 2004-2006; Council Member, for 4 years.Chair, Equity Committee, Queensland Studies Authority, 2003-2005 and Member, 2001-2005;Chair, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education Committee, 2004-2005.Member, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Education Committee, Board of Senior SecondarySchool Studies, 2001-2002.Member, Queensland Indigenous Education Consultative Body, 2000-2005.Awards/recognition include:Betty Watts Award for research in Indigenous Education, Australian Association for Researchin Education, 2005.110
MEMBER (AM) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION OF THE ORDER OF AUSTRALIAMr Athol HODGSON, Parkdale Vic 3195For service to forestry science, particularly the development of land management andbushfire risk reduction strategies, to emergency service organisations, and to thecommunity of rural Victoria.Forester, Forest Fire Management and Research, for more than 50 years.President and Founder, Forest Fire Victoria Inc, since 2004.A group of forest fire practitioners and scientists brought together to provide and promoteindependent and expert opinion on forest fire management to ensure that Victoria’s forest firemanagement policies and practices are based on science, experience and accountability, andaddress social, economic and environmental values of natural ecosystems; and that thelong-term well-being and safety of forest ecosystems and their surrounding rural communitiesare protected.Co-Author, The Facts Behind the Fire: A Scientific and Technical Review of theCircumstances Surrounding the 2003 Victorian Bushfire Crisis, 2005.Involved in Parliamentary Inquiries into the major Victorian bushfires of 2006-2007 and 2009,and the 2003 bushfires in Canberra and 5 Australian states.Member, Stretton Group, since 2003; the Group is committed to ensuring thatintergenerational responsibility is met by governments committing appropriate money to thefire protection and maintenance of public property, commensurate with its assets value.Board Member, Country Fire Authority, 1985-1987.Employee, Forests Commission Victoria, from 1948 to the mid 1980s; Commissioner ofForests; Chief Fire Officer; Lecturer, School of Forestry Creswick; Fire Research Officer.Awards/recognition include:Winston Churchill Fellowship, 1966; to study fire management in North America.111
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