The Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has made a raft of appointments to the 20-strong board responsible for considering complaints made by the public.
It marks the first new appointments to the board since 2011, with incoming board members including former Senator Sue Boyce, actors Jay Laga’aia and William McInnes and former New Idea editor Sue Smethurst. Other members are Paul Doorn, Andrew Robinson and Gina Lee.
Membership to the ASB is on a fixed term basis, and appointments are stagged to ensure the board retains a mix of knowledge as well as new skills and experiences.
The new members were selected from an advertised application and interview process. The ASB said the board does not represent the advertising industry, consumer or lobby groups.
As a result of the appointments, Khoa Do, Sibylla Budd, John Lee and Jo Tiddy retired from the board, having served since August 2006. Other retiring members include Barbara David, Nathan Hindmarsh and Jaime Phillips.
ASB chief executive Fiona Jolly said the new appointees represent a broad range of community values, ages, skills, and demographic groups.
“Selection of new appointments is always difficult and made more so by having to ensure we end up with a group of people who are representative of the diversity of the Australian community. Ultimately, I believe the public selection process has helped to deliver a group of people who represent all sectors of the Australian community,” Jolly said.
The first offical meeting of the new board was held in early October.
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