Current ALPM Board Members
The ALPM Board is entrusted with the day-to-day management of the ALPM Cooperative. Meetings are held approximately monthly and interested members of the ALPM are invited to attend. Please contact the ALPM if you wish to be involved in the activities of the board.
Officers
Chair: Jeannie Rea
Jeannie Rea is an honorary professor with Victoria University where she taught and researched in gender, environment, community development, advocacy and social change for over three decades. A peace with justice and anti-nuclear activist since her early teens, she also has a long history in the labour movement including two terms as national president of the National Tertiary Education Union
Secretary: Bobbie Oliver
Bobbie Oliver is an historian and an Honorary Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia. She has published on the Australian peace movement and war resisters from the 1880s to the Vietnam War era.
Treasurer and Curator: Martin Bush
Martin Bush is a cultural historian of science communication at the University of Melbourne and a reasearch associate and former curator at Museums Victoria. Martin has been involved in peace and social justice movements since the 1990s.
Board Members
Peter Herborn
Peter Herborn is a retired academic in town planning with interests in peace trails and landscapes. He has travelled to peace museums in Japan and Europe. He has contributed to the peace education and research in Sydney and regional New South Wales.
Dale Hess
Dale is a retired researcher in atmospheric sciences. He was born on Lenni Lenape country (New Jersey) of the Great Turtle (United States) and now lives on Boon Wurrung country in Naarm (Melbourne).
Alexandra Pierce
Alexandra Pierce was a history teacher for many years. She is the creator of the award-winning "Women Conscription War" podcast, which involves interviewing more than 50 Melbourne women who protested against the Vietnam War and conscription.