Drew is Chief Executive O cer of Oak Possability Group, Tasmania’s largest provider of disability services. He previously served as Chief Operating O cer of Possability during a period of significant transition for the disability services sector under the NDIS, including involvement in a successful merger and the expansion and development of the Group’s services into Victoria, where it has participated in the transfer of residential services from the Victorian Government. Drew is a qualified social worker with post-graduate qualifications in management and governance and has worked across a range of human service organisations in Australia and the United Kingdom, with extensive experience in providing, supervising and directing services and interventions. He led Early Intervention Services at Relationships Australia, with responsibility for clinical governance and supervision, and has held senior positions in health, social care and aged care policy and regulation. He was State Manager for the Federal Department of Health and Ageing during a period of significant health reform. Drew has held board positions with various community sector organisations and the Australian Institute of Public Administration, Tasmania. He is currently the public o cer of a Tasmanian organisation involved in the promotion of men’s health issues and has a strong interest in advocating for access to suitable housing for people living with disability.
Meredith is Chair of the Fishermans Bend Development Board in Victoria. She has also been a non-executive director of a number of boards, including the boards of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and of the Port of Melbourne. She lectures in the Masters program on Urban Governance at the University of New South Wales and provides high level consulting advice on public policy, planning and management. Meredith has held senior positions in the Victorian State Government, including Deputy Secretary of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. From 2002-2006 she led the O ce of Commonwealth Games Coordination, for which she was awarded the Order of Australia in 2007.
Chris is an international housing economist and academic and is currently Director of the Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning and the Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research at the University of Adelaide. His research focuses on the economics of the housing market, including the relationship between housing supply and a ordability, the behaviour of housing and land developers, and demographic / socio-economic processes such as household formation, housing consumption decisions and tenure choice. His work has helped inform government policy on housing supply and a ordability in Australia and across the United Kingdom. Chris has undertaken studies for a variety of government departments and entities in several countries, third sector organisations including CRISIS and Centrepoint, and a range of academic funders including the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom. He is an editor for the Urban Studies Journal and was previously Editor-In-Chief of the Housing Studies Journal.
Julie holds a Bachelor of Business Studies degree and is a corporate social
responsibility and strategic communications specialist.
She has extensive experience in the design and delivery of complex and large-scale strategic communication programs in the corporate internal and external environment, as well as communication
strategy development, issues management, and stakeholder engagement and management.
Julie has designed and executed multi-dimensional community investment programs in locations throughout Australia and Asia for both corporate and not-for-profit organisations.
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