Board of Directors

Appointed 01.12.1983
(Re-elected 24.11.2020)

Owner of the Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Janet is also Chair of the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), a Board Member of the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) and the Australian Institute of Architects Foundation (AIAF). Janet is also a member of the Centenary Trust for Women Board of Advisors at the University of Western Australia, the State Buildings Advisory Board Western Australia, and Commissioner for Australia for the Venice Architecture Biennale. She has won numerous awards, including a Companion of the Order of Australia and named 2018 Western Australian of the Year Arts & Culture. Janet is an elected member of the Board.

Appointed 30.10.2013
(Re-elected 31.10.2019 for three years)

Andrea is an experienced creative producer and executive producer. She has been a principal and senior executive in leading independent local and international production companies, most recently joining globally renowned Tony Ayres Productions. Andrea has collaborated with some of the country’s most esteemed creatives and with new talent to develop and produce a distinctive and highly regarded slate of scripted content including the award-winning Wrong Kind of Black; groundbreaking screen opera The Divorce; comedy series How to Stay Married, It’s A Date and 8MMM Aboriginal Radio; and landmark documentary Sporting Nation with John Clarke. Her other credits include Tripping Over; SeaChange; After the Deluge and Worst Best Friends. Andrea is on the Board of Film Victoria as well as the ACTF Board. 

Appointed 09.04.2019 for three years

Ian has over 20 years experience in the Australian film and television industry, and is currently a director of Indian Pacific Pictures and Aura Film Finance. Ian was CEO of Screenwest, the Western Australian film financing body for over a decade, financing hundreds of screen projects, including Mystery Road, Breath, Red Dog, Satellite Boy, Paper Planes, Bran Nue Dae, Cloudstreet, SAS: The Search for Warriors, Outback Truckers, Lockie Leonard and many more. Originally a lawyer, Ian also worked at the ABC, and has served on the Boards of national screen agency Ausfilm, Awesome Arts and the FTI.  As well as the ACTF, Ian is also currently a Board Member of Spare Parts Puppet Theatre. Ian is a Commonwealth Government representative.

Appointed 09.01.2017
(Reappointed 09.01.2020 for three years)

Appointed 27.11.2013
(Reappointed 09.09.2019 for three years)

Jenny Burgess graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. Jenny has also completed post-graduate studies in educational administration and a Masters of Education with a focus on literacy and numeracy teaching and assessment. Jenny has worked across a number of areas within the Department of Education including senior secondary, educational performance, and curriculum development. Recent leadership roles have included Deputy Secretary Support and Development and the Director Curriculum Services. Jenny‘s current role is Deputy Secretary Strategy and Performance, where she has responsibility for providing strategic policy advice to the Secretary of the Department and the Minister for Education on a broad range of matters. Jenny represents the Tasmanian Government on the Board.

Appointed 25.11.2019

Dr Rosemary Cahill works for Telethon Kids Institute as Chief Investigator for evaluation of the landmark Early Years Initiative in Western Australia, and was previously a senior officer within WA’s Department of Education.  She has taught, developed policy and designed and delivered system-level projects in early childhood, literacy and numeracy, Aboriginal education and special education since the 1980s. Key projects Rosemary has been the architect of include the Deadly Ways to Learn project in the late 90s; Getting it Right Literacy and Numeracy Strategy from 2001; implementation of the Universal Access National Partnership in Western Australia alongside the National Quality Standard from Kindergarten to Year 2 in Western Australian schools; and the KindiLink initiative which is a highly innovative approach to forging solid partnerships between schools and families. Rosemary recognises her experience of growing up in Western Australia’s wheatbelt, motherhood, living overseas, study and hockey as factors contributing to who she is and what she thinks. Rosemary is the Western Australian representative of the Board.

Appointed 29.06.2016
(Reappointed 29.06.2019 for three years)

Appointed 09.04.2019 for three years

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's highest profile adolescent and child psychologists. He wrote his PhD at the University of NSW on Adolescents with Cancer and named and founded CanTeen more than 30 years ago with a group of young cancer patients. He has worked as an academic, researcher, and political lobbyist. He is also the author of 14 books and is an Ambassador for Smiling Mind, Big Brothers Big Sister, Read the Play and Road Trauma Families Victoria and sits on the National Centre Against Bullying and the Federal Government’s Online Safety Working Group. He is the resident parenting expert on Channel 7's Sunrise, as well as a social commentator on the Morning Show with Neil Mitchell on Radio 3AW and Sky News. He is married with 2 sons and is a special Patron of the Hawthorn Football Club. Michael is a Commonwealth Government representative.

Appointed 17.03.2021 for three years

Sally Hodgson is the General Manager, Quality Teaching and Learning with the Northern Territory Department of Education.  Sally is a change agent who supports the teaching of quality curriculum from Transition to Year 12 across the NT.  Sally’s goal is to support her team to build capability and confidence in all teachers to support improved student outcomes.  She has spent 17 years in leadership roles in secondary schools across the NT.  Sally led the implementation and roll out of the Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training from 2008-2016.  She has a Bachelor of Education specialising in secondary mathematics and science.  Sally was a co-presenter of the Imparja developed Sci-Fax production in 1994. Sally is the Northern Territory Government representative

Appointed 25.03.2021 for three years

Ian has nearly 40 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer practising in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors.   He retired from Allens on 30 June 2020 after 30 years as a partner.  His career highlights included being managing partner of Allens, acting for the commercial television plaintiffs in the 1992 High Court case that established the implied constitutional guarantee of freedom of political communication, acting for News Corporation on the establishment of FOXTEL and acting for the indigenous groups that established NITV.   Ian is currently the chairman of Prime Media Group Limited and a non-executive director of Documentary Australia Foundation, the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, the SIMS Foundation and Uphold & Recognise Limited.  Ian is a Commonwealth Government representative. 

Appointed 14.01.2019 for three years

Sally Scales is a Pitjantjatjara woman from Pipalyatjara in the far west of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in remote South Australia. Sally was the youngest person ever elected as Chairperson of the APY Executive Board Council in 2019. Sally has worked with the APY Art Centre Collective since 2013 in cultural liaison, elder support and spokesperson roles, as well as being Regional Programs Coordinator.  Sally was instrumental in opening two APY Art Centre Collective galleries in Sydney and Adelaide. Sally was a delegate to the First Nations National Constitutional Convention at Uluru, involved in drafting the Uluru Statement of the Heart, and continues to be a member of the Uluru Dialogues Leadership Group. Alongside all these activities Sally is also a full-time mum to her five-year old nephew Walter. Sally is an independently elected member of the Board.

Appointed 03.02.2021 for three years