The Board

Michael Long is the Patron of The Long Walk.

The Board is responsible for the corporate governance of The Long Walk and its controlled entities. Corporate governance is undertaken with due regard to all of The Long Walk stakeholders and its role in the community.

Darron Muir
Chairperson

darron.muir@thelongwalk.com.au

Darron Muir, grew up in Ballarat, Victoria with his family. Darron represented Australia in professional cycling in the late 80's early 90's, where he spent several years in Europe racing for a Dutch Pro team and then the US on the professional circuit. Darron was fortunate to have been given the opportunity to school in the USA where he attended university studying business/finance. Whilst in America, Darron ventured into the motor industry where he quickly made his mark. Upon his arrival back in Australia in 96 he climbed the ranks of the motor industry where he has since become a very successful business man in partnership with the Blood Motor Group in Geelong. Since Darron came to Geelong he has contributed to many Community Charities, Functions, and events. Darron also represents many Committees, such as Asthma Foundation, Essendon Football Club, and has been a committed sponsor to the Long Walk and Indigenous issues that impact on his people. He looks forward to the Challenges that he faces, with the future directions of The Long Walk Board.

Peter Murphy
Deputy Chair

peter.murphy@thelongwalk.com.au

BIOGRAPHY TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY

Merryn Apma

Director

merryn.apma@thelongwalk.com.au

Merryn is a descendent of the Arrente people of Central Australia: she is the third generation of her family to have been removed from her family as a child. Merryn was adopted and brought up in Geelong Victoria by a non Indigenous family.

Merryn is one of the founding members of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative , where she was a Bringing Them Home Counsellor. Merryn has been awarded the Bicentennial Medal for her contribution to the Aboriginal Community (2001), The Western Suburbs Indigenous Gathering Place "Reconciliation" award (2005), and the "Women in Culture" award at the Koorie Women Mean Business' inaugural Victorian Aboriginal Women's Awards (2006). Merryn strives to keep working at the grass roots level to provide a sense of community involvement to enable her people to have better opportunities in employment, health, housing, and to be heard and understood, and treated as equal. She is very committed to making a difference to both the Indigenous and non Indigenous people, she is extremely community minded, and is very passionate about assisting those less fortunate to get over the line.

Charlie Lenegan
Director

Charlie was appointed to The Long Walk board in April 2010. Charlie is a Director of OZ Minerals and a former Managing Director of Rio Tinto Australia. He had a distinguished 27 year career with Rio Tinto where he held various senior management positions across a range of commodities and geographies. He is also a former Chairman of the Minerals Council of Australia, Director of Energy Resources of Australia Limited and Director of Coal & Allied Industries Limited.

Nathan Lovett-Murray
Director

nathan.lovettmurray@thelongwalk.com.au

BIOGRAPHY TO BE PUBLISHED SHORTLY

Terri Marsden
Director

Terris is a career Banker with ANZ, she has a professional background in Retail Branch Banking, Staff Learning & Development, Operational line-management and Lending. She is ANZ Six-Sigma Black Belt trained and also has solid project management experience gained through senior leadership roles in large-scale projects. Terri holds a Diploma of Business (Banking & Finance), a Certificate IV in Project Management as well as a Masters in Applied Science (Organisational Dynamics) from RMIT in 2007. Terri is a mentor/mentee on the ANZ Indigenous Mutual Mentoring program as well as a member of the ANZ RAP Committee. She was also part of the ANZ team that worked together to fund the implementation of a community library for the Bidyadanga Indigenous Community in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. Terri's interests outside of work include Horse riding, 4WDing and camping.

Fiona Moore
Director

Since the early 1980's when she worked in Central Australia, teaching literacy and community development to Aboriginal adults, Fiona has passionately supported the efforts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to fully exercise their rights as Australian citizens. Fiona has extensive experience in a range of corporate, philanthropic and community organisations, including inaugural National Manager of the Telstra Foundation, which supports projects for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth. She has managed the grant-making program of The Stegley Foundation, developed workforce policy and educational partnerships for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Coordinating Unit for Rural Health Victoria and contributed to the wider philanthropic and not for profit sectors with a focus on developing partnerships with Indigenous community organisations. In late 2005, Fiona joined Oxfam Australia in the new role of National Manager of Oxfam's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Program. She changed roles at Oxfam in 2009 to lead its philanthropic and social investment initiatives. Fiona is committed to contributing to genuine reconciliation, closing the gap in life expectancy and quality of life, and building new relationship of respect, dialogue and goodwill between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. She believes The Long Walk is a great opportunity to make a positive and lasting difference.