Presenters, Chairs and Facilitators

Session 9
» Ms Jackie Huggins
» Mr Jason Glanville
» Ms Marion Scrymgour

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Ms Jackie Huggins
Ms Jackie Huggins AM is Co-Chair of Reconciliation Australia and the Deputy Director of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland. She is a Council Member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission Review Panel. She is a Director of the Telstra Foundation and the Chain Reaction Foundation, and a member of the Indigenous Forum of the Australian Youth Foundation.

Ms Huggins was an Executive Member on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1994-2000), Chair of the Queensland Domestic Violence Council (2001) and Board Member of the State Library of Queensland. She was a Commissioner for Queensland for the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.

Ms Huggins has published widely on Australian Indigenous issues, in particular history and women’s studies. She authored Auntie Rita (with Rita Huggins 1994) and Sistergirl (1999). In 2000, she received the Premier’s Millenium Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs and in 2001 was awarded an AM for her work with Indigenous people, particularly on reconciliation, literacy, women’s issues and social justice.

Mr Jason Glanville
Mr Jason Glanville is a member of the Wiradjuri peoples from south-western New South Wales. He is the Policy and Programs Director with Reconciliation Australia, an independent non-profit Foundation which provides a national focus for the process of reconciliation between Indigenous peoples and the wider Australian community. He manages a range of projects including the Good Indigenous Governance Program; Improving Banking and Financial Services for Indigenous Australians Project; Framework for a Shared Future (Treaty) Project; and Reconciliation through Education (Youth) Project.

Over the last ten years Mr Glanville has worked in a range of positions in community-based Indigenous organisations, State and Federal Governments and non-government peak organisations. He worked as the Regional Manager West Queensland for the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy and Development, located in Mt Isa. In this role he worked with remote Indigenous communities, government agencies, and the pastoral and mining industries on issues of Indigenous community governance and development, service delivery, and capacity building. Prior to moving to Queensland he was an Adviser with the Reconciliation Branch of the Department of the Prime Minster and Cabinet. He has also worked as a Senior Project Officer with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission and as Indigenous Policy Officer with the Australian Youth Policy and Action Coalition (AYPAC).

Ms Marion Scrymgour
Ms Marion Scrymgour MLA was elected as a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in August 2001 as the Member for Arafura. She is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education and Training and the Deputy Chair of Committees. She is also the chair of the Substance Abuse Committee and a member of the Subordinate Legislation and Publications Committee.

Ms Scrymgour is a Tiwi woman and was educated in Darwin She has maintained her Tiwi affiliations, and in the early 1990’s she worked as Office Manager at the Nguiu Community Government Council. Whenever possible she has discharged her obligations as a member of her skin group, including dancing at funeral ceremonies.