Person

O'Neil, Pamela Frances (1945 - )

Born
20 September 1945
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Politician and Biochemist

Summary

Pamela O'Neill worked for the Commonwealth Department of Health and the Australian Red Cross Transfusion Service prior to being elected to the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly. She was the first Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Officer appointed after the legislation was passed in 1984.

Details

Chronology

1966
Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Queensland
1966 - 1969
Career position - Biochemist at the Commonwealth Health Laboratory in Darwin
1977 - 1983
Career position - Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fannie Bay, Northern Territory
1981 - 1983
Career position - Deputy Opposition Leader of the Northern Territory Government
c. 1983
Career position - Northern Territory representative on the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Committee on Information and Social Impact
1984 - 1988
Career position - Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Commissioner
1986 - 1988
Career position - Member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
1989
Career position - Director of the Australian Heritage Commission
1989 - 1995
Career position - Principal Member of the Immigration Review Tribunal (IRT)
1996 -
Career position - Senior Member of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Administrative Appeals Tribunal
1996 - 1997
Career position - Head of the Commonwealth Paedophile Inquiry
1996 - 1998
Career position - Chairperson of the Migration Agents Registration Board
1996 - 1999
Career position - Member of the National Native Title Tribunal
1998 -
Career position - Visiting Fellow in the Centre for International and Public Law, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Resources

See also

  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details

Ailie Smith

EOAS ID: biogs/P004329b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004329b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260