Ms Mary Porter AM
Mary is president of Hunter Restorative Community Inc.
Mary trained as a Registered Nurse and Midwife in Wollongong NSW and worked as a remote area Nursing Sister in Indigenous Communities for 12 years. She moved to the ACT in 1977, becoming a founding member of Tuggeranong Community Service (a regional community service in one of the ACT’s town centre regions, now known as “Communities at Work...
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Biarta Rhys-Jones
Biarta is treasurer of the Hunter Restorative Community Inc.
Bio to come.
Following a forty-year involvement in education across several different settings, including schools, not-for-profit organisations and outdoor recreation, Paul has recently retired and finds himself busier than ever. His passion for restorative practice has grown from his experience in the fields of health and wellbeing, developing a clearer understanding and practice of what processes provide effective future solutions to relational...
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Karen was elected to the HRC Board at the meeting of 12 November 2024.
Karen has taught in primary schools in disadvantaged areas including rural regions. She has also taught literacy, numeracy and work skills to adults who have disabilities. Further study equipped her to teach English as a Second Language to new migrants.
A move to community development in a neighbourhood centre then led to managing a project,...
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Ray was elected to the HRC Board at the meeting of 12 November 2024.
Ray Nickson is a restorative justice scholar and advocate at the University of Newcastle School of Law and Justice. Ray begun his career as a solicitor representing indigent clients with the criminal law division of the Legal Services Commission of South Australia. This experience led him to pursue a PhD under the guidance of John Braithwaite at the...
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Richard De Martin
Richard is vice president of Hunter Restorative Community Inc.
Richard studied a degree in drama and has worked in the community for the last 20 years in a range of settings.
As a youth worker he works restoratively with young people facilitating psycho-social group work and engaging them on a creative level to explore complex issues and to enable change personally and...
Read moreIan was nominated and accepted the position of public officer for 2025 at the meeting of 12 November 2024.