Joe Ross

Joe Ross – is a member of Bunuba Inc. from Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia.
Joe completed his electrical fitting and installation apprenticeship and worked twelve years in the trade. Joe resigned his position in 1992 as Maintenance Supervisor for BHP Minerals at the Cajuput mine near Fitzroy Crossing.

Joe has been involved in regional, state and national Indigenous issues.

Joe is the Director of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre (AILC), which was established to oversee the Indigenous Leadership Development, with the objective of developing a continueing programs for future Indigenous leaders. He has been active in developing leadership development programs to provide skills development opportunities for young Indigenous leaders and enable them to contribute to shaping the future of their communities and the nation.

Joe is passionate about the socioeconomic development of Indigenous Communities in the Kimberley, Australia and the Torres Strait Islands.

Joe is a Director of the Enterprise Career Education Foundation (ECEF) formally the Australian Student Traineeship Foundation (ASTF)
Joe has been striving to improve the socio/economic conditions for his 600 members of the Bunuba language group. Joe’s involvement with his Bunuba operations include developing a 250 participant CDEP program, Eco Tourism, Town Based Investments and Pastoral operations, which export live cattle to Asia. He is a natural born charismatic leader with a vision from an Indigenous perspective for Multicultural Development in Australia.

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Christine I’Anso

Christine I’Anson is the Executive Officer of the Ethnic Child Care Resource Unit (ECCRU). She joined ECCRU in August last year. She brings to the position of Executive Officer a great deal of knowledge and experience in caring for young children and implementing inclusive programs in children’s services. She has worked in the child care field for over twenty years, initially as a caregiver and teacher of young children in NSW and the Northern Territory, and later as an educator of child care students at Central TAFE, here in Western Australia.

She is committed to improving the quality of children’s lives through supporting children’s services to implement programs that are responsive to individual children’s needs and that are inclusive of all children.

She says that she feels privileged to be in the position of Executive Officer of ECCRU because this enables her to focus her energy on the specific needs of children and families from culturally diverse backgrounds and because having the opportunity to work with people from so many different cultural backgrounds is so enriching and rewarding.