The Consumer Council

The Comminications Alliance Consumer Council (the Council) was an initiative to ensure adequate and appropriate broad consumer input into Comminications Alliance processes and activities, particularly, in Code development. The Council works in parallel with, and is complementary to, the existing Comminications Alliance Structure.

The Council comprises up to ten (10) members from a wide range of consumer representative and public interest representative organisations, thereby providing diverse coverage of key stakeholder sectors.

The roles and responsibilities of the Council are based upon providing broadly-based consumer input to Comminications Alliance, including input to the Comminications Alliance Strategic Plan and input to the Works Program.

The scope of the Council is not limited to the work and role of Comminications Alliance. To that end, the Council meets with some of the other Government and industry departments involved in the telecommunications industry including the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO).

Consumer Council Membership

Current as of 8th July 2008

Teresa Corbin (Chair)
(Consumers Telecommunications Network)

Nan Bosler
(Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association)

Su Robertson
(Communications Law Centre)

Ewan Brown
(SETEL)

Myra Pincott
(Country Womens' Association of Australia)

Marion Lau
(Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria)

Gordon Frend
(Australian Telecommunications Users Group)

Ian Butterworth
(Telecommunications Consumer Group SA)