NCWA Team
NCWA President Margaret Smith became President of National Council of Women of Australia in 2009. Please read on to meet Margaret Smith as well as several of the other members who have actively involved with NCWA over the last few years including National Advisers Dr Pamela Williams, and Dr Dawn Butterworth and Past President Hean Bee Wee.
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President |
Margaret Smith |
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Vice President |
Roslyn Dixon |
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Secretary |
Pat Dart OAM |
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Treasurer |
Julie Morris |
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National Coordinator |
Julie Biles OAM |
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Board Member in Charge |
Dr Pamela Williams |
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Immediate Past President |
Hean Bee Wee |
Hean Bee Wee
Hean Bee is a successful accountant and educationalist and has had a significant community involvement since her student days at the University of Adelaide. She has been a member of NCWSA representing the Penguin Club since 1997, became an executive member in 2001 and Vice President in 2004. She is also a current member of NCW ACT.
In 1991-92 she was one of the foundation members of a new group—the Asian Women’s Consultative Council Inc. set up to enable Asian Australian women to more fully participate in consultation with government. Hean Bee has had a significant role in education, especially with the International Baccalaureate program, acting as Chairman for SA Co-ordinators Committee 1992 – 1996.
Highlights of her Presidency were a number of projects to broaden the engagement of NCWA with women lacking a voice from the newly emerging communities, and aborigninal and Torres Straits islander communities for example through the Oodnadatta project with the support of an Australian Government Women’s Leadership and Development grant.
Dr Dawn Butterworth
Dawn holds the NCWA Child and Family portfolio.Holding bachelor, honours and doctoral degrees in the areas of Education, the Arts and Special Needs, Dawn has worked for children and families for over 40 years. Further to her position as Head of Early Childhood Studies at Edith Cowan University, Dawn has fulfilled teaching fellowships in China, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand. Intensely interested in contemporary social issues, Dawn has won numerous research awards for investigations into gender equity, father role, child care, hospitalization and family violence.