The Consumer Council

The ACIF Consumer Council (the Council) was an initiative to ensure adequate and appropriate broad consumer input into ACIF processes and activities, particularly, in Code development. The Council works in parallel with, and is complementary to, the existing ACIF 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 ACIF, including input to the ACIF Strategic Plan and input to the ACIF Works Program.

The scope of the Council is not limited to the work and role of ACIF. 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 20 April 2007

Teresa Corbin
(Consumers Telecommunications Network)

Dr Christopher Newell
(ACIF Disability Council)

Nan Bosler
(Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association)

Su Robertson
(Communications Law Centre)

Myra Pincott
(Country Womens' Association of Australia)

Marion Lau
(Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria)

Cheryl Langdon-Orr
(Internet Society of Australia)

Gordon Frend
(Australian Telecommunications Users Group)

Ian Butterworth
(Telecommunications Consumer Group SA)