After four productive and successful years in the role, the previous EOWA Director, Anna McPhee, left the Agency at the end of November 2008.

In the interim, Mairi Steele has been appointed as Acting Director.

Mairi has been involved in workplace    relations for nearly thirty years. Before coming to  Australia she lectured, researched and  published in the areas of industrial relations,  human resource management, equal  opportunities and labour law at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow in Scotland. 

Since joining the Australian Public Service in 1994, Mairi has acquired considerable workplace relations policy experience, including in the areas of discrimination in the workplace, pay equity and workplace flexibility. 

She is a co-author of 'Changes at Work - The 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey' and was closely involved in 'Unfinished Business', the independent review of the Affirmative Action Act in 1998-99, which culminated in the establishment of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency.

Mairi was also a Senior Commonwealth Advocate in the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and has represented the Australian Government at the International Labour Conference in Geneva. 

Please contact EOWA on 02 9448 8500 for more information.