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GRAHAM RIXON
Appointed August 2008

JOSEPHINE TIDDY
Appointed August 2006

Graham Rixon is currently engaged in part-time
educational consultancy work particularly in the
areas of school registration, middle schooling,
technology in education, strategic planning and
executive coaching.

Dr Josephine Tiddy is the Managing Director
of JTCT Consultants specialising in dispute
resolution and organisational wellness. She
provides strategic, legislative, governance and
policy advice and investigates, mediates and
resolves disputes to organisations in educational
and not for profit sectors.

He stepped down as Principal of Penrhos College
a Uniting Church School, Perth, Western
Australia at the end of 2007 - a position he held
since September 1986.
Graham is a passionate educator and has worked
on a number of state and national committees
aiming to improve the quality of education in
both government and non-government schools.
He is currently an Educational Consultant
for the Western Australian Department of
Educational Services.
Graham is the Chairman of the Amanda Young
Meningococcal Septicemia Foundation - a
non-profit organisation working in the area of
community awareness, survivor and carer support
and offering grants for research to develop a
Meningococcal Type B vaccine.
Graham grew up in Melbourne where, along with
his career in education, he was active with Lifeline
and his local Uniting Church. He moved to Perth
in 1986 with his wife, Meredith and two children.
Graham and Meredith share interests in travel,
reading, cycling and kayaking.

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Josephine is a director with over 20 years
experience, currently serving on various boards
and statutory committees and is a Fellow of the
Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Prior to establishing JTCT in 2000, Josephine
was Commissioner for Equal Opportunity
in South Australia, administering State and
Federal laws for 16 years, as a statutory office
holder and the Chief Executive of the Equal
Opportunity Commission.

She was awarded an honorary doctorate by
The Flinders University of South Australia
in recognition of her national contribution
to administrative law, public policy, dispute
resolution and legislative reform.
Josephine is actively involved with the community
and has extensive knowledge and understanding
of a wide variety of community views. She is a
Justice of the Peace and has worked with people
from the early years of a nursing career, which
she followed by establishing and managing the
first Australian Nurse Counselling Service, at
the South Australian Women’s and Children’s
Hospital.

During that time, she successfully managed and
promoted controversial and complex legislative
and social changes throughout South Australia
and nationally - changes which have been
accepted as common practice and inte