Biographical entry O'Neil, Pamela Frances (1945 - )

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.

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Events

1966

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the 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 at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra

Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'O'Neil, Pamela Frances', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-713056. Details

See also

• Herd, Margaret (ed.), Who's Who in Australia 2002, 38 edn, Crown Content, Melbourne, 2001, 2020 pp. Details