Sandra Hills Australia

Sandra is Chief Executive Officer, Benetas, with over 20 years experience in a range of Senior Management roles in the Health and Community Services industry, State & Local Government and the Community Sector.

Sandra is a Director of Anglicare Australia, and Aged and Community Care Victoria, a member of the Ministerial Aged Care Advisory Committee (2004 - present) and member of various other State Government Advisory and Reference Committees.

John Lonergan, Ireland 

John Lonergan is a native of Bansha, County Tipperary. He is an expert at   inspiring and bringing about change in difficult settings. As a Governor of Mountjoy Prison he has frontline experience of challenging situations and the positive lessons learned can be applied in a wide range of settings. He argues that if our objective is to create a just, inclusive and cohesive society we must build it on the core value of justice, equality, fairness, honesty and compassion.  
His philosophy is that change both personal or otherwise cannot be enforced upon people, believing that real and meaningful change comes about through consent and agreement.  He is convinced that the task for all of us is, first of all, to find the humanity in another human being and then to nurture it.  The more people become aware of their own humanity the more likely they are to treat others with respect.

Rod Oram, Auckland 

Business commentator and journalist Rod Oram has more than 30 years’    experience as an international business journalist. He has worked for various publications in Europe and North America, including the Financial Times of London.

Rod and his family emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in 1997.

He is currently a columnist for the Sunday Star-Times and Good Magazine; a regular broadcaster on radio and television; and a frequent public speaker.

He was named the Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year for 2009.
Rod is an adjunct professor in the Business School at Unitec. And Penguin published in 2007 his book on the New Zealand economy, Reinventing Paradise.

In the Anglican Diocese of Auckland Rod is a member of the congregation of St Andrew’s Epsom, a lay canon at Holy Trinity Cathedral, a member of the Diocesan Climate Change Action Group and the convener of the editorial committee of The Anglican, the diocesan magazine

Matthew Croucher, Christchurch

Dr Croucher is a Psychiatrist of Old Age and academic working for the Canterbury District Health Board and the University of Otago, Christchurch.  He has acted as a liaison person for the NZCCSS in recent Ministry of Health attempts to improve services for people with dementia and older people with mental health problems and was one of the informants for the NZCCSS's recent publication "Working Together We Can Respond to Dementia".  Besides clinical and research work, his main focus is on the role teaching and training can play to arm the health and care sector to better respond to the challenges we all face with the ageing of the people of Aotearoa New Zealand

Keith Bracey

We are delighted to welcome TV  personality and broadcaster to share his reflections and experiences of aged residential care in the 21st century.