The Walkley Public Fund Committee

Pamela Williams is an investigative journalist who spent 30 years at The Australian Financial Review. She also spent three years at The Australian and was Executive Producer of the 7.30 Report in the early 1990's. She is the author of the 1997 best-selling political campaign book, The Victory and the 2013 best-seller, Killing Fairfax, which won the Walkley Book Award. She has won a total of seven Walkley Awards, including the Gold Walkley in 1998 and the Walkley for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism in 2023. She has also won the Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year award; the George Munster award; the Melbourne Press Club/Trawalla Arts Journalism award, the Citigroup Journalism award and the Melbourne Press Club Quill award.

Paul Bailey is a former editor of The Australian Financial Review and a Gold Walkley Award winner. He began his career as a cadet journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and went on to write on politics and the environment before becoming chief-of-staff, news editor and deputy editor. He was editor and editor-in-chief of The Bulletin magazine and news editor of Channel Nine News. Paul joined the AFR in 2004 as deputy editor, overseeing its foreign and national political coverage, and was appointed managing editor and then editor. When he stepped down in late 2022 he was AFR’s longest-serving editor. Paul has been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the arts faculty of UNSW. He was also a member of the Walkley Advisory Board and served as its chair. He is a long-standing judge of the Walkley Book Award.

Dan Bourchier is a multi-award-winning journalist and broadcaster with the ABC. He is a host of Mornings and Weekends on the ABC News, and is Chair of the ABC's Bonner Committee, advising the Managing Director on Indigenous Affairs.
He was previously co-host of the current affairs show The Drum and special correspondent for The Voice referendum, as well as the anchor of ABC 7PM News and broadcaster hosting Breakfast on ABC Radio Canberra.. He has reported across the country and around the world for more than 25 years.
Dan grew up in the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek, where he was mentored by Elders from around the region, while connecting with his own Indigenous heritage from his Mum’s family in Victoria.
Dan was a foundation member of the NT Parliament’s bipartisan advisory committee and has been a keen advocate for democratic equality and equity. He has sat on numerous boards, committees and charities. He is an in-demand MC, event facilitator, and expert communicator who has worked across the nation.

Kate Julius has over 25 years experience working with and advising companies and organisations to help them with their reporting and compliance obligations. She has been a partner with PwC Australia for over 11 years and through her career at the firm has developed a broad range of expertise across advisory, accounting and tax disciplines. Kate is a Sydney based partner within the Australian Firm’s Optimise team which brings extensive commercial
experience and technical knowledge to our clients. The Optimise team provides outsourced accounting, reporting and tax services to a large portfolio of clients including global and Australian companies, significant family groups and not for profit entities.

Kate Haddock has practised as an intellectual property lawyer since 1989, and is one of the founding partners of Banki Haddock Fiora, established in 1995. She has extensive experience advising collecting societies and publishers in relation to all aspects of their business, including in particular copyright and competition law. She provides advice on all aspects of copyright management and transactions relating to dealings with copyright properties. In particular, she has close experience of all aspects of the legal issues facing collecting societies, including under competition legislation. Kate also conducts litigation and manages disputes and enforcement proceedings relating to copyright and competition and consumer laws, in particular in the music industry. She has extensive experience in the Copyright Tribunal of Australia. Her clients include collecting societies, publishers and other companies with creative interests. Kate is Chair of the Australian Copyright Council, and has been a lay member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance ethics panel. Since 2009, Kate has been included in the intellectual property section of the Best Lawyers of Australia list published by The Australian Financial Review. In 2017 she was named by Doyle’s Guide as a Leading Trademark Lawyer, and a Preeminent Copyright and Soft IP Lawyer.

Alan Sunderland has had a 40 year career in public broadcasting and public interest journalism as an award-winning reporter, producer, news manager and most recently as a standards editor. He began his career as a cadet journalist in the ABC’s Melbourne newsroom in 1979, spending almost a decade as a general reporter in radio and television. He moved to SBS in 1988, reporting news and current affairs before becoming chief political reporter for five years, and served as head of news from 1996-99. In 2005 Alan rejoined the ABC as a senior producer, then served various leadership roles before leaving news for a broader role as Director of Editorial Policies, in 2013, with overall responsibility for maintaining editorial standards across all ABC radio, television, online and mobile content. He became the ABC’s editorial director in 2016, and retired from the ABC in April 2019. Alan has won two Walkley Awards (1992 & 1995) and has authored seven children’s novels. He currently serves as Journalism Advocate with the Fourth Estate Corporation in the US.