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Jenny Lambert has over four decades of experience in policy and advocacy, with a particular focus in the tourism and hospitality sectors. She commenced her industry association career as the industrial and research officer at the national office of the AHA followed by project manager and deputy CEO for the tourism industry training advisory body. Jenny took on her first CEO role as head of Restaurant & Catering NSW and then national R&CA. Jenny then headed up three industry bodies, being Meetings & Events Australia, Nursery & Garden Industry and the National Tourism Alliance. For the last decade, Jenny served as a policy director with one of Australia’s peak business bodies, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, specialising in skills, migration and employment and served on the 457 visa review panel in 2015. Jenny joined Accommodation Australia in July this year as their national policy and research advisor.
Sarah Bevan was admitted as a lawyer in New South Wales in 1999 and obtained specialist accreditation. She established Sarah Bevan Family Lawyers in 2002 and has always practised exclusively in all aspects of family law, including areas such as surrogacy, international cases and cases involving complex structures. Sarah is also an Accredited Arbitrator, NMAS accredited Mediator, a Collaborative trained lawyer and on the panel of Independent Children's Lawyer. She is a regular presenter of continuing legal education in family law.
Senior Member Dr Bridget Cullen was appointed to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in 2017 and sits predominantly in the Migration and Refugee Division. She is the National Practice Leader, Procedure and Practice, for the MRD and is the Chair of the Migration and Refugee Division’s Professional Development Committee. Prior to her appointment to AAT, Dr Cullen spent 7 ½ years as a Legal Member of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal. Dr Cullen was admitted to the New York Bar in 1995 and the Queensland Bar in 2000. She is a Nationally Accredited Mediator, and registered Family Dispute Resolution Practitioner, with law degrees from both the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). She enjoys teaching, and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Griffith Law School, where she teaches evidence law.
Cliff Bingham is Assistant Secretary of the Labour Market Research and Analysis Branch of the National Skills Commission. He leads the Commission’s work to advise on issues affecting the state of the Australian and international labour markets, and how these affect Australia’s current, emerging and future workforce skills needs. He has worked across a number of Australian Public sector agencies for more than 20 years, including on long-run demographic and labour productivity analysis for the Department of the Treasury and on outcomes-focused performance measurement for the Australian Taxation Office.
Laurie Berg is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney, and Co-Executive Director of Migrant Justice Institute, Australia’s first national research and policy organisation dedicated to addressing migrant worker exploitation. Laurie is one of Australia’s leading legal researchers on migrant workers’ rights. Over the past decade she has led numerous national and global research teams on migrant workers’ access to justice for wage theft, technology for migrant empowerment, migrants’ housing rights and the impact of COVID-19 on temporary migrants.
Phillip Yip is an accredited specialist in Australian immigration law awarded by the Law Society of New South Wales with over 25 years of experience.
He is the principal director of Phillip Yip & Associates Pty Ltd and he leads an outstanding Australian based specialist immigration law team that assists local and overseas businesses seeking business and corporate immigration solutions for foreign nationals as well as private individuals with various visa and citizenship needs.