The Australian Women's Register

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

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

• 2045

  Born: daughter of John Patrick and Lurline Margaret Patfield Caffery

• 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

  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

  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