Events

20 Sept. 1945

Born: daughter of John Patrick and Lurline Margaret Patfield Caffery

1958 - 1962

Attended All Hallows' School, Queensland

1963 - 1965

Attended Queensland University

1966 - 1969

Biochemist with the Commonwealth Health Laboratory, Darwin

1977 - 1983

Member Legislative Assembly, Australian Labor Party, for Fannie Bay, Northern Territory

1981 - 1983

Deputy Opposition Leader, Northern Territory

c. 1983

Appointed, Northern Territory representative to the CSIRO Committee on Information and Social Impact

1984 - 1988

Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Commissioner

1986 - 1988

Member of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission

1989

Director of the Australian Heritage Commission

1989 - 1995

Principal Member of the Immigration Review Tribunal

1991 - 1993

Member of the Executive Committee, Australian Institute Administrative Law

1992

Member of the Committee for the Review of the System of Review of Migration Decisions

1992 - 1993

President of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, ACT Division

1996 - 1997

Head of the Commonwealth Paedophile Inquiry

1996 - 1998

Chairperson of the Migration Agents Licensing Board

1996 - 1999

Member of the National Native Title Tribunal

1996 - 2009

Senior Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, ACT

1998

Visiting Scholar of the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University

Sources used to compile this entry: http://www.nwmc.org.au/history2/biogs/oneil.htm accessed 03032003, Who's Who in Australia 2002 p. 1434-1435 and Pamela O'Neil's CV.