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    Members

    Co-chairs

    • Amie Carrington is the Chief Executive Officer of the Domestic Violence Action Centre, providing specialist domestic, family and sexual violence services that create a meaningful impact to increase safety and healing for victim survivors of Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence. Amie holds influential positions as a Board Chair of WESNET (Women's Services Network) Inc. and Co-Chair of Ending Violence Against Women Queensland.

    Current members

    • Brett Thompson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Homicide Victims’ Support Group. His role is focused on victim support, interagency systemic improvement, and advocacy for justice system reform.
    • Chris Jones is a related victim and has joined the IMAC as a victim-advocate. He hopes to use the insights and empathy from his experience to help shape a wider understanding to make informed and considered policy and decisions that provide better support and justice for victims and their families.
    • Elvie Sandow was the first female mayor of Cherbourg and previously served as Chairperson of Youth and Community Combined Action, a juvenile crime prevention initiative.
    • Matilda Alexander is the CEO of Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion and a human rights lawyer with a lengthy history in the community legal sector. Matilda has won multiple awards for her work with vulnerable communities and holds an enduring passion for justice. Matilda is also on the management committee of the LGBTIQ+ Legal Service.
    • Natalie Merlehan is a victim representative who has been working with Voice for Victims following her involvement in a highly publicised youth crime incident on 26 January 2021 which killed Matt Field, Kate Leadbetter and their unborn son. Ms Merlehan has a background in Criminology and is an advocate of restorative justice and justice system reform.
    • Robert Keith Hamburger was Queensland’s first Director-General of the then Queensland Corrective Services Commission and led significant reform across Queensland’s prisons. Keith is a Queensland patron of the Justice Reform Initiative, established in September 2020 with a goal to reduce Australia’s reliance on incarceration.
    • Professor Susan Dennison is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University. She is currently Director of the Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives Centre, leading a transformative system of practice to better support mothers who experience incarceration, and their children.
    • Zac Davidson was a Youth Parliamentarian with firsthand insight into the complexities surrounding youth-related crime. Zac believes bringing a youth perspective in addressing the youth crime crisis is of paramount importance.

    Standing observers

    • Kylie Stephen, Assistant Director-General, Justice Reform Office, Department of Justice
    • Stephen Tillett, First Nations Justice Officer, Department of Justice
    • Beck O'Connor, Victims' Commissioner, The Office of the Victims' Commissioner