AnnuAl REPORT 2011-2012 - Sbs

RETiREd
diRECTORs
1 2
Bob Cronin AM – non-executive Director
(retired 13 June 2012)
Appointed 16 May 2002 for four years and re-appointed
for a further four years on 14 June 2006 and a further two
years on 14 June 2010. Mr Cronin is Group editor-in-Chief
of West Australian Newspapers. He was previously
editor-in-Chief of West Australian Newspapers (1987-96),
editor of The Sun in Melbourne (1985-86), Deputy editor
of The Courier-Mail in Brisbane (1984) and editor of the
Border Mail in Albury (1974-82). He was a member of the
Australian Press Council from 1987-96 and has been a
member again since 2009. He was a founding director of
Information Radio in Perth in 1991. He is a former
Chairman of Oz Concert Inc and a former member of
the council of Celebrate WA. In 1998 he was awarded
the ethnic Communities Council award for outstanding
contribution to multiculturalism in Western Australia and
in June 2011 he was made a Member of the Order
of Australia.
Christopher Pearson – non-executive Director
(retired 21 October 2011)
Appointed 21 October 2003 for four years and
reappointed for a further four years in October 2007.
Mr Pearson was founding editor of the Adelaide Review
and the Sydney Review. He was also the first publisher
of the privatised Wakefield Press, when it was sold
by the South Australian Government following the
Sesqui-Centenary of Settlement. Mr Pearson also
worked as an ABC Radio broadcaster and as a weekly
columnist in the national press since 1994. He has
served for two terms on the Australia Council and for
three terms on the National Museum of Australia.
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1 Bob Cronin AM
2 Christopher Pearson
Board meetings and directors’ attendance
The Board met six times during 2011-12.
DATe LOCATIOn
Thursday, 25 August 2011 Sydney
Thursday, 20 October 2011 Sydney
Thursday, 8 December 2011 Melbourne
Thursday, 23 February 2012 Sydney
Thursday, 19 April 2012 Melbourne
Wednesday, 6 June 2012 Sydney
BOARD MeMBeR ATTenDeD
Joseph Skrzynski AO – Chairman 6
Bulent Hass Dellal OAM – Deputy Chairman 6
Michael ebeid – Managing Director 6
Patricia Azarias 5
elleni Bereded-Samuel 5
Bob Cronin AM1 6
Jacqueline Hey 6
Daryl Karp 6
Christopher Pearson2 2
1 Mr Cronin’s term finished on 13 June 2012.
2 Mr Pearson’s term finished on 21 October 2011.