• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0451

O’Neil, Pamela Frances

(1945 – )
  • Born 20 September, 1945, Brisbane Queensland Australia
  • Occupation Feminist, Tribunal Member

Summary

Pamela O’Neil was Australia’s first Sex Discrimination Commissioner.

Events

  • 1977 - 1983

    Member Legislative Assembly, Australian Labor Party, for Fannie Bay, Northern Territory

  • 1992 - 1993

    President of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, ACT Division

  • 1991 - 1993

    Member of the Executive Committee, Australian Institute Administrative Law

  • 1992 - 1992

    Member of the Committee for the Review of the System of Review of Migration Decisions

  • 2045 - 2045

    Born: daughter of John Patrick and Lurline Margaret Patfield Caffery

  • 1998 - 1998

    Visiting Scholar of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University

  • 1963 - 1965

    Attended Queensland University

  • 1966 - 1969

    Biochemist with the Commonwealth Health Laboratory, Darwin

  • 1983 - 1983

    Appointed, Northern Territory representative to the CSIRO Committee on Information and Social Impact

  • 1996 - 2009

    Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, ACT

  • 1996 - 1998

    Chairperson of the Migration Agents Licensing Board

  • 1996 - 1999

    Member of the National Native Title Tribunal

  • 1989 - 1995

    Principal Member of the Immigration Review Tribunal

  • 1989 - 1989

    Director of the Australian Heritage Commission

  • 1984 - 1988

    Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Commissioner

  • 1986 - 1988

    Member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

  • 1996 - 1997

    Head of the Commonwealth Paedophile Inquiry

  • 1981 - 1983

    Deputy Opposition Leader, Northern Territory

  • 1958 - 1962

    Attended All Hallows’ School, Queensland

Published resources

Archival resources

  • National Archives of Australia, National Office, Canberra
    • Personalities - Bob Hawke - With Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Pam O'Neill, 1984

Related entries


  • Related Organisations
    • Administrative Appeals Tribunal (1976 - 2015)