Supporters
The Lobby bids a very sad farewell and thank-you to our retiring Convenors
Alex Sosnov and Anthony Schembri. Both have put in an enormous personal
commitment into fighting for our rights and have been with the Lobby for
a number of years, providing balanced and insightful leadership to our
work.
They have achieved excellent results in past years promoting the work
of the GLRL and placing rights issues on the community and political agendas.
With next year’s State election looming, our two newly elected Convenors
- Somali Ghosh and Andrew Pickles - and the new Committee will ensure
that rights issues remain on the agenda.
Other outgoing committee members include Treasurer Jenny Mann and long-term
contributor to the GLRL, Kathy Sant. Jenny has also been a long-standing
and valued member of the Committee and ensured that she left the GLRL
in a sound financial position. Given the current difficulties that community-based
organisations are facing financially, we are grateful that Jenny has kept
us in a safe position with sufficient cash reserves to fund us for the
year ahead.
Kathy Sant has been a past convenor of the GLRL and also a long-standing
member of the Committee. Kathy has provided incredible support to the
Exec and Committee in recent years with her tremendous political know-how,
driving our Federal and State Election lobbying.
The new committee are Somali Ghosh (Female Convenor), Andrew Pickles
(Male Convenor), Suzy Tay (Secretary), Luke Gahan (Treasurer), Robert
McGrory, Nikki Maloney, Amanda Millar, Grant Colquhoun, Luca Balboni,
David Scamell, Jenni Millbank, Paula O'Sullivan, Matthew Baird, Anthony
Powell and Shane Garland.
Somali Gosh and Andrew Pickles, who have backgrounds in social work and
the law respectively, have both worked with the GLRL for a number of years
in both volunteer and committee positions.
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