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New NTEU staff Aimee Hulbert
Please welcome new staff in our offices.
Division Organiser, Vic Div
Jake Wishart
Communications Organiser (Digital), National Office Jake is a strategist, organiser and campaigner with experience at four unions. He’s the President and co-founder of the Young Workers Centre at Victorian Trades Hall. Before joining the NTEU, he was working with GetUp! and has years of experience working in the climate movement.
Claire McKinnon WA Division Organiser
Aimee Hulbert started with NTEU in November. She previously worked at the Financial Services Union, after being a rank and file member for six years, where she helped win a wage theft dispute against NAB.
Ben Kunkler
Campaigns & Communications Officer, Vic Div As a casual academic at the University of Melbourne, Ben helped organise the casuals wage theft campaign. He is a published academic. His poetry, criticism and non-fiction has been published in TEXT, Rabbit and Overland.
Staff movements
Claire is the new Organiser for Murdoch and Notre Dame universities. Previous roles include Lead Organiser: the Wilderness Society, Community Campaigner: Save Our Marine Life and The Kimberley Like Nowhere Else campaigns, plus various voluntary roles for environmental and social justice causes. Claire's a terrible gardener but good at spontaneous Dad jokes.
After 7 years as Queensland Division’s Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Organising & Recruitment Officer, we bid a very sad farewell to Phil Mairu. Phil has been an energetic and effervescent presence around the NTEU for a long time, and members and colleagues are going to miss him a great deal. We know that wherever he ends up next will be very lucky to have him. ◆
NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF Director (Industrial & Legal) Wayne Cupido Senior Legal Officer Kelly Thomas National Industrial Officer (Research & Projects) Ken McAlpine National Industrial Officer Campbell Smith Industrial Support Officer Renee Veal Director (Policy & Research) Policy & Research Officer
Paul Kniest Terri MacDonald
National A&TSI Director National A&TSI Organiser
Adam Frogley Celeste Liddle
National Organiser (Media & Engagement) Michael Evans National Organiser (Publications) Paul Clifton Communications Organiser (Digital) Jake Wishart Education & Training Officer Helena Spyrou Executive Manager Peter Summers National Membership Officer Melinda Valsorda ICT Network Engineer Tam Vuong Database Programmer/Data Analyst Uffan Saeed Payroll Administrator/HR Assistant Jo Riley Manager, Office of General Secretary & President Anastasia Kotaidis Executive Officer (Meeting & Events) Tracey Coster Admin Officer (Membership & Campaigns) Julie Ann Veal Receptionist & Admin Support Leanne Foote Finance Manager Glenn Osmand Senior Finance Officer Gracia Ho Finance Officers Alex Ghvaladze, Lee Powell, Tamara Labadze, Daphne Zhang
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