Who are the ADAs Board of Directors and how are they elected?
The Board of Directors page of the ADA website introduces the Associations directors. Members of the board are elected at our annual general meeting for a two-year term, with half retiring each year, and serve in an honorary capacity. None of our directors is a member of a political party or an organisation affiliated to a political party. By convention, no-one holding political office at federal or state level can be a director. How the board supervises the public-interest guardianship work of the ADA is detailed below.
The Board of Directors page of the ADA website introduces the Associations directors. The seven elected members of the board are elected at our annual general meeting for a three-year term, with two or three retiring each year in rotation, and serve in an honorary capacity. As per our constitution (Articles 55-57), the Executive Director is appointed by, and responsible to, the board but may also be an elected director. Of the seven elected directors, one is a member of the ALP and one a member of the Liberal Party. Where members of a political party stand for election to the ADA a balance with the other side of politics is maintained as much as is possible (candidate availability permitting). No other director (including our executive director) is a member of a political party or an organisation affiliated to a political party (but two are former ALP members). By longstanding convention, no-one holding political office at federal or state level can be a director, and none of the curre
