Tara Hunter works as the Director of Clinical and Client Services at Full Stop Australia and is responsible for Counselling, Professional and Training service delivery across the organisation. Tara is an accredited Mental Health Social Worker with additional qualifications in Workplace Training, Assessment and Family Dispute Resolution. Tara has over 20 years’ experience working in the NGO & health sectors, including managing a NSW Health hospital based sexual assault service that provides a 24/7 psychosocial and medical response for people who have experienced a recent sexual assault. Tara has expertise in leading training, service & clinical responses to gender-based violence with a focus on client centred care & creating service systems that support clients and the workers that deliver their care.

Michele identifies as an Gumbaynggirr/Yaegl Nyami (Woman in Gumbaynggirr)-accepted on Bundjalung Country . Her practice and relationships are centred around her cultural ways of knowing, being and doing. Core Personal & Professional values that lead her community work are empowerment, social justice & healing, - respect, fairness, - kindness, humanity, integrity, inclusion, two way learning, family, accountability, spirituality & truth. Michele brings a rich cultural paradigm & deep practice of respect, reciprocal relationships, dadirri, protocol, community obligations and responsibilities. Michele champions social justice and seeks to work hard to increase equality & equity for First Peoples. She leads with an Indigenous Feministic practice, authentic Aboriginal Leadership & Aboriginal Governance which self-empowers to show up with and for community.

Professor Manjula Datta O’Connor MBBS FRANZCP DPM MMED Professor Manjula Datta O’Connor is a psychiatrist in private practice with clinical and research interest in migrant women’s mental health, family violence and complex trauma and trauma therapy. She is Hon Clinical A/ Professor at the Department of Psychiatry University of Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor University of New South Wales Department of Social Sciences. Manjula Chairs Royal Australian New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Family Violence Psychiatry Network, and a member of RANZCP CPD Committee and RANZCP Journals Committee. She co-founded the Australasian Centre for human rights and health. Manjula successfully led the dowry abuse campaign in Australia culminating in law change in Victoria, and currently advocating to change Federal Laws Manjula is invited expert on committees and informs public debate around safety of migrant women in 2012. Manjula is active in translating academic research for communities via public education and prevention campaigns around family domestic abuse , mental health disorders and suicide prevention Manjula is a reviewer of academic journals, and published author of dozens of academic papers. Her latest publication is the book Daughters of Durga . More information can be found on www.manjulaoconnor.com

June Oscar AO is a proud Bunuba woman from the remote town of Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. She is a strong advocate for Indigenous Australian languages, social justice, women’s issues, and has worked tirelessly to reduce Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). June has held a raft of influential positions including Deputy Director of the Kimberley Land Council, chair of the Kimberley Language Resource Centre and the Kimberley Interpreting Service and Chief Investigator with WA’s Lililwan Project addressing FASD. She led a successful community driven campaign for alcohol restrictions in Fitzroy Crossing and is an international advocate on the impacts of intergenerational trauma and the need to restore societal wellbeing through the revitalisation of cultural practices, languages and connection to land and water. In 2013 June was awarded an Officer of the order of Australia for distinguished service to the Indigenous community of Western Australia, particularly through health and social welfare programs. In 2015, June received the Menzies School of Health Research Medallion for her work with FASD. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Desmond Tutu Global Reconciliation Award, she was named NAIDOC person of the year in 2018, and in 2019 she was bestowed the honorary role of a Distinguished Fellow of ANZSOG. June began her five-year term as Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in 2017, and in April 2022 she was reappointed for a further two years. She published the landmark Wiyi Yani U Thangani (Women’s Voices) Report in December 2020 and continues to pursue its full implementation to advance First Nations gender justice and equality in Australia.