The Hon Helen Murrell SC was appointed part-time Commissioner for a five-year term from 7 August 2022. Ms Murrell recently retired as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the ACT, a position she held since 2013. She was called to the NSW Bar in 1981 and appointed Senior Counsel in 1995.

Prior to her role as Chief Justice, Ms Murrell was a Judge of the District Court of NSW from 1996 to 2013. Her prior appointments include Deputy Chairperson of the NSW Medical Tribunal, Senior Judge of the Drug Court of NSW, President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal of NSW and Deputy President of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of NSW (Equal Opportunity Division) and acting Judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW.

Ms Murrell has a longstanding interest in therapeutic jurisprudence and judicial education, and from 2016 to 2020 was Chair of the National Judicial College of Australia.

Forum Slides – Helen Murrell

Senior Counsel specialising in anti-corruption. Topic: The Many Faces of Corruption

Geoffrey Watson specialises in product liability, professional negligence, general insurance and appeals. He has a national practice, appearing in the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of each of the States and Territories.  His clients have included the Australian, British, American, New Zealand and Fijian governments; the NSW and other State governments; many State and federal government agencies; all major insurers; and the major mining, industrial and banking houses.

Mr Watson has appeared as counsel assisting in several large scale public inquiries, investigating allegations of corruption amongst NSW politicians and police misconduct and corruption.  He is a director of The Centre for Public Integrity, and has acted as an adviser to Federal, State and Territory politicians on integrity and corruption issues.

Grace Tobin is a two-time Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist and former 7.30 reporter.

Before joining the ABC, Grace worked at 60 Minutes where she travelled extensively around Australia and on overseas assignments. In 2019, she produced a joint investigation with Nine Newspapers on Crown Casino which sparked two Royal Commissions and the Bergin Inquiry in NSW. She’s the author of true crime book, Deal with the Devil. Her career began in regional Queensland as a crime and court reporter. 

Topic: Ethical Culture: Making it Real

In 1994, Stephen was one of four co-founders of the Corruption Prevention Network (CPN). Stephen served on the CPN’s Executive Committee for over 20 years, and was the Program Chair & MC of the CPN’s Annual Forum for much of that period.

During that time Stephen also had the privilege to serve in roles such as NSW Assistant Auditor-General (for Performance Audit), and CEO of the NSW. Internal Audit Bureau.

These days Stephen serves as the Chair of Audit & Risk Committees across the Commonwealth, NSW Government and Local Councils. Three decades on, fraud & corruption prevention remains a primary colour in his professional passion palate.

In a short and sweet fifteen minutes Stephen will distil his learnings of over 30 years on “Ethical Culture: Making it Real” in which he’ll consider how best to approach the diverse challenges of “managing grass-eaters and hunting meat-eaters”. A no nonsense approach to corruption prevention.

Forum Slides – Stephen Horne

Topic: On the Case – Are you Serious about Fraud Prevention?

With over 15 years’ experience across legal and investigative roles, Tam is an experienced legal professional with exceptional advisory, investigative and advocacy skills. A proven track record of running complex, high impact matters, having steered high profile public anti-corruption hearings, prosecuted multi-million-dollar civil litigation proceedings, and conducted complex multi-jurisdictional investigations into money laundering and foreign bribery. Duxton Hill pride themselves as the only highly specialised team of lawyers and investigators in Australia and the Asia Pacific region totally dedicated to pursuing or defending fraud, misconduct or financial crime cases.

Forum Slides – Tam McLaughlin

Reece Corbett-Wilkins is the Head of First Response Australia, and is the Chief Strategy Officer at Atmos.

For over 10 years, Reece has focused exclusively on cyber and privacy risk, having helped 1,000+ organisations through some of their most challenging times. Reece is particularly experienced in managing large scale multi-party data breaches, both locally and globally, and ransomware response. Reece works closely with the incident response industry, government, and law enforcement to achieve optimal outcomes for clients. Reece’s true passion is bringing the industry together to tackle this risk at an aggregate level. Reece is recognised for his contributions to thought leadership and law reform initiatives.

Forum Slides – Atmos

The Hon Helen Murrell, Sara Deady, Tim Wellington, Grace Tobin, .

Moderator: John Hanrahan

A Panel of Ethics and Anti Corruption and Fraud Experts – All on Notice

Your Questions and their Insights.

Forum Slides – John Hanrahan