KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Kate Jenkins - Sex Discrimination Commissioner
THE ROLE OF SPORT IN ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY
BIOGRAPHY
Kate Jenkins became Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2016. Kate is leading a number of projects at the Australian Human Rights Commission, including the recently released report on the results of the national survey on sexual harassment and sexual assault at university, the Commission’s fourth sexual harassment prevalence survey and continuing the Commission’s collaborative project on cultural reform with the Australian Defence Force.
Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins will discuss the role of sport as a powerful setting for social change and influencing community attitudes – across issues such as sexism, violence against women and inclusion – as well as the opportunities sport presents to make a positive impact on Australian society more broadly.
BIOGRAPHY
Kate Jenkins became Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner in 2016. Kate is leading a number of projects at the Australian Human Rights Commission, including the recently released report on the results of the national survey on sexual harassment and sexual assault at university, the Commission’s fourth sexual harassment prevalence survey and continuing the Commission’s collaborative project on cultural reform with the Australian Defence Force.
Kate is the convener of the National Male Champions of Change group (established 2015), and the Co-Chair of Play by the Rules, a joint project between human rights agencies and sports commissions to make grass roots sports safe, fair and inclusive.
Prior to joining the Commission, Kate spent three years as the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner. In that role she held an Independent Review into Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment, including Predatory Behaviour, in Victoria Police. She was also the Co-Chair of the Victorian Commission’s Disability Reference Group and a member of the Aboriginal Justice Forum.
Kate spent 20 years as lead partner with Herbert Smith Freehills’ and 15 years on the board of Berry Street Victoria. An Arts/Law honours graduate, Kate is on the boards of the Heide Museum of Modern Art and the Carlton Football Club. Kate was recognised in the 2015 AFR/Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards for her work in public policy.
Kate grew up on a family orchard in outer Melbourne. She lives Melbourne with her family, which includes her husband Ken, their 2 children and her 3 stepchildren.
Molly Taylor - Winner of the 2016 Australian Rally Championship
GOING SIDEWAYS TO GO FORWARDS
Becoming the first female Australian Rally Champion Driver meant a huge amount to Molly Taylor. However, it wasn’t because she was the first woman to do it, it’s never been about that.
What is was about, was the achievement representing countless people, hours, family, and personally proving to herself that it’s possible to reach the highs you dream of. It was that satisfaction of being the best team they could be and the rewards for perseverance.
Helping to further break down gender stereotypes was never a goal. It was, however, an unintended consequence. In order to continue to increase women’s participation in sport Molly believes there are two main areas where we can have the biggest influence.
To lead, we have to inspire. To Molly, there is nothing more inspiring than watching someone genuinely following their passion. We also have to create more grass roots level accessibility. To facilitate pathways for young girls to find what their passion is. How we measure success and what we ultimately do with it, she believes, will also determine our future success.
BIOGRAPHY
Subaru do Motorsport team driver Molly Taylor became the first female and youngest winner of the Australian Rally Championship in 2016.
Growing up in a motorsport family, an interest in rallying was inevitable, with Molly’s mother Coral a four-time Australian Rally Champion co-driver. However, it wasn’t until a later age, working at her father Mark rally school in the holidays that Molly tried driving a rally car herself.
She won the F16 class in the Australian Rally Championship in 2006, backing the victory up again in 2007.
Following that, Molly moved overseas at age 20 with very little money or resources to follow her dream to become a professional rally driver.
Supported by the Australian Motor Sport Foundation’s International Rising Star program, she won three of the six events she contested in the 2009 Suzuki Swift Sport Cup, also becoming the British Ladies rally champion in the process. She took that title again in 2010 along with finished 3rd in the Citroen Racing Trophy.
In 2011 she was selected as one of six drivers globally to be part of the Pirelli Star Driver Program, giving her a scholarship to compete in the World Rally Championship Academy, where she took out her maiden
stage win in the category.
In 2013 Molly competed in the European Rally Championship, where she won the European Ladies Championship and her results also elevated her to World Rally Rankings Number 1 International Female Rally Driver.
In 2014 Molly took on four rounds of the Junior World Rally Championship. She also became the first female to achieve a podium position in the Junior WRC’s history, finishing third in the prestigious Rally Finland.
In 2015 Molly became the first female to win a round of the Australian Rally Championship and finished second overall in the series.
In 2016 she went one better, winning the Championship as part of the Subaru do Motorsport team. Molly’s achievements that year also included winning one of the most prestigious awards in Australian motorsport, the Peter Brock Medal, named in honour of the late touring car legend.
Glenn Inglis - Managing Director, Inglis Group and Local Government Strategist
LOOKING FORWARD - ARE WE READY? A LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE
Local government is the ultimate community place maker and place shaper. There is no other organization like it that has the legal authority, the community mandate, and the resources to truly activate sport, leisure, and recreational activities and community spaces.
We live in demanding and changing times – tight budgets, rate pegging, new agendas for fiscal responsibility, new performance frameworks, increasing community expectations, shifting demographics and rapidly changing community priorities.
Local government needs to take a strategic perspective, be good at establishing the right policy settings, be good at analyzing and solving problems, be good at making things happen, be good at getting results, be good at growing relationships and at building partnerships, and be extra good at communicating.
Looking forward and to be ready, local government needs to supercharge its organizational competence and capabilities. It needs the right leadership with the right strategies and initiatives, and the right people with the right skills.
Local government can be the master activator.
BIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY
Glenn is a specialist strategic local government advisor. Glenn has held senior management positions in local government for over 25 years. He was General Manager of Tamworth Regional Council for 6 years and Parry Shire Council for 11 years. Under Glenn's leadership Tamworth Regional Council was awarded the 2009 AR Bluett Memorial Trust Award for the most progressive Council in NSW.
Glenn was a consulting lecturer at Charles Sturt University Bathurst for 8 years. Teaching subjects to Masters level examined the practical and theoretical basis of an enterprise role for government in entrepreneurial and strategic economic development.
Glenn is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Glenn maintains the highest professional standards and his specific areas of expertise are strategic thinking, financial, legal and governance.
