New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria have all had a changing of the guard on the Polio Australia Management Committee, effective from the 2012 Annual General Meeting and subsequently.

Click here to read the profiles of these three new Committee Members:

John Tierney (New South Wales)
President

Peter Wierenga (South Australia)

Gordon McKinnon (Victoria)

We express here our gratitude to the retiring members Neil von Schill (New South Wales), Trevor Jessop (South Australia) and Michael Judson (Victoria) for their service to the Committee over the last four years and for their dedication to advocating for the needs of Australia’s polio survivors.

Michael Judson’s resignation as Treasurer necessitated a change to two of the Committee’s Executive positions which had been filled at the 2012 Annual General Meeting. The Executive members as from 13 February 2013 are:

Dr John Tierney OAM
President
National Patron,
Polio Australia
State: New South Wales

Gillian Thomas
Vice President
President,
Polio NSW
State: New South Wales

Jenny Jones
Secretary
Committee Member,
Post Polio Network of WA
State: Western Australia

Brett Howard
Treasurer
President,
Polio SA
State: South Australia