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.
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Chronology
- 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
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
- 'O'Neil, Pamela Frances (1945-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-713056. Details
See also
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 4 March 2003, Last modified: 1 August 2007