CHAIRMAN

Carl Dumbrell is a partner of CDTL Chartered Accountants, President of St Michael’s Golf Club, director and company secretary of ASX and LSE companies.
As Foundation Chairman, Carl is responsible for corporate governance and finance.

Carl brings a cool head and a passion for excellence to the Foundation.

NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Natalie is a multi-talented and multi-award-winning journalist who has worked around Australia, covering some of the country's biggest stories from government coverups to sex trafficking, immigration, the environment, police, courts and crime.

She was the first Investigations Editor appointed on The Australian Newspaper and was awarded a highly commended award in the Walkley Awards for her story Children Overboard Didn't Happen.

Natalie was also a recipient of a Kennedy Award in 2014 for her reporting on the Environment.

Her presence on the Kennedy Foundation board is a measure of her passion for her craft.

NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Susie Elelman is truly the epitome of a multi-media broadcaster and has been deservedly described as the most versatile, informed and professional person in Australian media today.
Author, TV presenter, radio broadcaster, reporter and producer are just some of the many hats she has worn throughout an impressive media career spanning over four decades.
Susie Elelman is also a name synonymous with daytime television.
She is currently voicing her opinion regularly on Today Extra and is part of the talkback team on Radio 2GB/4BC.

Highlights of Susie’s long list of television credits include more than eight years spent alongside Bert Newton as a presenter and reporter on Good Morning Australia and as host and executive producer of her national daily variety and lifestyle show SUSIE for the WIN/9 Network.

Susie has worked with the human headline, Derryn Hinch, gifted eccentric broadcaster Clive Robertson and has even stepped in to present the weather. And she has interviewed many international celebrities such as Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn, Kylie Minogue and George Clooney.

Susie is also a newspaper and magazine columnist and award-winning best-selling author.
Susie’s the only woman ever to voice The Ode in RSL & Services Clubs Australia-wide.
For her services to charity, the not-for-profit sector & the media, Susie was awarded an AM in the Queen’s Birthday honours list in June 2015.

As a First Generation Australian of refugee parents, Susie is very proud to have been chosen as an Australia Day Ambassador each year since 2000.

NON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Kate Allman is a Sydney-based freelance journalist, broadcaster and TV presenter who reports widely on sport, travel, and legal issues.

Her portfolio is broad, with bylines in the News Corp newspapers, The Guardian Australia, Forbes Australia, across a variety of sport and travel publications, and as former Associate Editor of the award-winning LSJ magazine.

She was a finalist for the June Andrew’s Award for Women’s Leadership in Media in 2022 for her work on gender equality in sport as the co-founder of Equal Pay for Equal Play, and was named Young Journalist of the Year by the Council for Civil Liberties in 2021.

GENERAL MANAGER

Anna, in her career so far, has built productive partnerships with dozens of organisations across the country including, all levels of government, corporate, media, charities and not-for-profits.
Anna has a long history of engagement with the media and journalists having previously worked for ten years at the Walkley Foundations, National Manager of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance State Media Awards Program.

She is an Ambassador for One Million Women. Has worked for several leading organistions that support the community: Women in Media, the Australian Conservation Foundation, Variety: the Children’s Charity and the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service. She has been a member of a Ministerial Committee for Students with Disabilities and a member of the Ministerial Taskforce on Inclusive Education.

Terrifically focused and dedicated, no one can organise an event like Anna, and she is a much loved and valued member of our team. Even a room of journalists have given her a standing ovation for her work.

COMMUNICATIONS

David is the latest addition to our small team bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge built on nearly four decades of life as a working journalist.

A former editor of Sydney University’s student newspaper, ‘Honi Soit’ he was one of four cadets chosen from 5000 applicants to join the ABC’s prestigious Public Affairs Radio Unit, makers of ÁM’, ‘PM’ and ‘The World Today’.

He’s worked on ‘Nationwide’, ‘The 7.30 Report’. ‘Business Sunday’ , ‘Lateline’, ’Foreign Correspondent. ‘Page One’ and in television has been an investigative reporter, producer, presenter and foreign correspondent.

He has also written feature articles and columns for News Ltd and Fairfax Media.
David has won a number of media awards and was a three times finalist in the Walkley Awards.

For the last twelve years, he has worked as a communications consultant for a number of clients in industry, government and not-for-profits.