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Site Changes

On 1 November 2010 the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was integrated into the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). An interim website for the OAIC is available at www.oaic.gov.au. This site (privacy.gov.au), which only contains information related to the OAIC's privacy function, will be maintained until a combined site is established.
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Privacy Advisory Committee

The Privacy Advisory Committee (PAC) provides strategic advice on privacy, from a broad range of perspectives, to the Australian Information Commissioner.

The PAC was established under section 82 of the Privacy Act. All members except the Commissioner are appointed by Her Excellency the Governor-General. The PAC consists of no more than six members. The PAC is convened by the Australian Information Commissioner, Professor John McMillan AO.

Terms of Reference

The current terms of reference assume a strategic advisory role for the Privacy Advisory Committee, and are based on the functions of the Committee as set out in Part VII of the Privacy Act 1988.

The Privacy Advisory Committee will:

  • advise the Information Commissioner on privacy issues, and the protection of personal information
  • provide strategic input to key projects undertaken by the Information Commissioner
  • foster collaborative partnerships between key stakeholders to further promote the protection of individual privacy
  • promote the value of privacy to the Australian community, business and government
  • support office accountability to external stakeholders.

Privacy Advisory Committee Members:

Leon CarterLeon Carter, National Secretary, Financial Sector Union

Leon Carter has been with the Financial Sector Union (FSU) for 15 years, and has been National Secretary since 2007. He has been involved in the Australian trade union movement for 24 years. FSU is the voice of 400,000 Australian finance workers. Leon's aim is for the FSU to achieve membership growth, and better conditions for Australian finance sector workers. FSU is leading a campaign to halt offshoring of Australian jobs, and create awareness of Debt Stress.

Appointed: December 2011

Professor Michael KiddProfessor Michael Kidd AM, Faculty of Health Sciences Flinders University

Michael Kidd is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences (including the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing and Midwifery) at Flinders University. He chairs the Australian Government’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections. He is president-elect of the World Organization of Family Doctors and a past president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He has long standing clinical and research interests in e-health, sexual health and HIV medicine.

Appointed: July 2010

Associate Professor Moira PatersonAssociate Professor Moira Paterson, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Moira Paterson is Director of Graduate Studies in the Monash Law Faculty and a member of the Monash University Human Ethics Committee. She teaches and researches in FOI and privacy and is the author of Freedom of Information and Privacy in Australia: Government and Information Access in the Modern State (LexisNexis/Butterworths, 2005) and FOI editor of the Australian Administrative Law Service. Moira has been a member of the Victorian Firearms Committee since 2007. Her other external appointments have included membership of the Advisory Committees to the ALRC in relation to its privacy and secrecy law reviews and membership of the Consultative Committee to the VLRC in relation to its report on Surveillance in Public Places. She has also completed research consultancies for the Victorian Parliamentary Accounts and Estimates Committee and the VLRC

 

Appointed: December 2011

Dr William PringBarbara Robertson, Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Notices, National Australia Bank (NAB)

Barbara Robertson is the Chief Privacy Officer at NAB. As well as overseeing the personal information management and governance framework for NAB, Barbara and her team provide direction in relation to privacy legislation and coordinate responses to the many diverse statutory notices and subpoenas NAB receive from government agencies, regulators, and litigants.

Before establishing the Privacy & Notices team in 2007, Barbara’s roles in NAB have involved leading large operational teams and managing several key strategic supplier arrangements. Prior to joining NAB in 2002, her business experience including building a National Customer Contact Centre for NZ’s largest trustee company and leading the corporate actions team within a global securities organisation.

Barbara is a practising lawyer and holds an MBA (AGSM 2006). She is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia (FINSIA).

Appointed: July 2010