The Management Committee

Committee members work for the Land Trust in a voluntary capacity. Each member brings a broad range of skills and experience to decision making aimed at conserving the natural environment.

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Rod Hunt - President Rod brings skills in governance, strategic planning, lobbying and organisation management to the NETLT. After a career in history teaching, the labour movement and aged care Rod moved back to the North East with his partner to enjoy the landscape and community and developed a strong interest in maintaining the beauty and conservation values of the area.

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Todd Dudley - Vice President is a leading environmental activist of 25 years standing and has an encyclopaedic knowledge of Tasmanian flora and fauna. Todd is President of the North East Bioregional Network, a management Committee member of Environment Tasmania and the Break O'Day committee member for NRM. His areas of expertise include bush regeneration, landscape conservation planning, environmental law, wildlife surveys, weed control, botanical surveys and reserve management plans. Todd is Vice President of the North East Tasmanian Land Trust.

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Graeme Beech - Treasurer has a long history working in various occupation as an environmental conservationist. He has worked in the conservation field for the Victorian, ACT and Australian Governments. Graeme has environmental science qualifications and has enjoyed a public service career working as a conservation/recreation planner, park manager and executive officer in a range of locations including Wilsons Promontory National Park, Jervis Bay (Booderee National Park), Christmas Island, Darwin, Canberra, PNG and Hobart. Graeme has also worked as a Station Leader at Casey Station and Macquarie Island with the Australian Antarctic Division. Having ceased permanent employment with the Australian Government in 2012, Graeme is currently working on the Lord Howe Island Rodent Eradication Project. Even though he is a very busy person Graeme does a fine job as our Treasurer.

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Christine Hosking has a PhD in Conservation Biology and is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include the landscape-scale impacts of fire and climate change on native ecosystems. A main focus of her research has addressed future climate change and its effects on koala populations throughout eastern Australia. Christine’s most recent project involved mapping areas for koala conservation by developing models of spatial prioritisation for four local government areas on the NSW Far North Coast. The models incorporated information such as locations of koala food trees, social acceptance of koala habitat protection, and threats from urbanisation. She is also currently supervising a PhD student who is investigating the status of and threats to, platypus populations in Queensland. Christine and her partner have a 100-acre Land for Wildlife property at the Chain of Lagoons that encompasses both coastal reserve and dry elevated forest. They enjoy monitoring native wildlife such as Tasmanian devils, quolls and wombats on the property, and encouraging the natural regeneration of native vegetation that was historically cleared for agriculture.

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Gary Luck - Secretary/Public Officer Gary has a PhD in ecology from Edith Cowan University and is currently Adjunct Professor of Ecology and Interdisciplinary Science at Charles Sturt University. His international research career in environmental management spans over 25 years and incorporates work that examines the intersection between nature conservation and agriculture, urbanisation, human psychology, economics, ethics and social dynamics. He was a council member of the Ecological Society of Australia for 6 years and Chair of the Editorial Board for the journal Ecological Management and Restoration during this time. Gary and his partner manage an organic farm in St Marys, Tasmania, that blends sustainable food production with conservation of around 40 acres of critically endangered Eucalyptus brookeriana forest protected under conservation covenant.

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Kris McQuade is an actor and conservationist. In the past few years Kris has lived in the Northeast corner of Tasmania at St Marys. During this time she has become a passionate environmentalist taking on several projects; from the hands on forest restoration work with the North East Bioregional Network to become a committee member of the North East Tasmanian Land Trust. As one of Australia's best know actors, Kris has had an extensive career over the past four decades in film, TV and theatre and has played such iconic roles as, Dolly Pickles in the stage production of Tim Winton's book "Cloudstreet", touring Australia, Zurich, London, Dublin, New York and Washington and Heath Ledger's mother in the film " Ned Kelly" and more recently-Kath Pettingal in the TV series "Killing Time".

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Andrew Wilson Andrew, a new member of the NETL Committee, has a PhD in Roman History, and worked in digital archives and digital preservation for over 30 years before semi-retiring recently and moving to Falmouth. Andrew is a member of the North East Bioregional Network, an active participant in the Friends of Falmouth Foreshore, and a member of the Falmouth Community Centre (FCC). Andrew has a strong commitment to keeping the beauty and environmental values of North East Tasmania intact and safe for future generations.