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The Cairns Institute
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield, Queensland, 4878
Australia

Drum∞

BIll Liley

Bill works as in primary care in the remote far north of Australia. He has fellowships from the Royal Australian College of General Practice and the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine with advanced skills in Indigenous Health, and a diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He is actively interested in violence prevention. MBBS DipStEd (UQ), DRANZCOG FACRRM FRACGP, Rural Generalist Specialist General Practitioner, Adjunct Professor Research, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Cooktown Medical Centre, Hope Vale Primary Health Care Centre, Cooktown Multipurpose Health Service.

Drum Infinity Mugendai

Drum ∞ is a not-for-profit Japanese Drum Taiko and percussion team, established in 2016 Queensland Australia. ∞ call “Mugendai”=”Infinity”. Having a Taiko master Hiroyuki Hayashida (Ex Kodo Japanese professiona Taiko group member) as our mentor, Drum ∞ aim to promote cross-cultural understanding, community spirit, health and fitness, coordination, teamwork and the joy of music, through our performances, rehearsals, and workshops.

Gerry Turpin

Gerry Turpin is the only formally trained Indigenous ethnobotanist in Australia and the winner of the 2013 Deadly award for Science. Gerry manages the Australian Tropical Herbarium at James Cook University Tropical Indigenous Ethnobotany Centre.

Grace Lillian Lee

Grace Lillian Lee is a 28 year old Artist, Designer and Curator from Cairns. Grace uses her background in fashion to create a platform to explore her identity. Curating Fashion performances is where the culmination of Grace's experiences comes together. Celebrating young women and men on a professional platform of sharing culture, through collaboration and mentorship by curating, models, elders, art centres, and by exploring social realities of people’s heritage in a performance arena.

Iain Gordon

Professor Iain Gordon completed his PhD at Cambridge University and followed this with postdoctoral research on the management of wetlands for biodiversity conservation. He then worked at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Scotland. In 2002 Iain moved to Australia to take up a position with the CSIRO but returned to Scotland in 2010 as the CEO of the James Hutton Institute, Recently he returned to Australia in 2015 as Deputy Vice Chancellor – Tropical Environments and Societies at James Cook University. Iain now lives and works in Townsville and has three children.

Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson has grown into a fine and provocative Acoustic Guitar driven Australian Contemporary Singer Songwriter. With accolades to have played for “Prince William of the Royal family” and support act for acclaimed international touring acts such as Gomez, Donovan Frankenreiter, Harry Manx and Australia’s own Angus and Julia Stone, Jeff Martin (The Tea Party), Neil Murray, The Basics, Skinny Jean Band, Thelma Plum and so on.

Judith Herrmann

Judith is a PhD student at James Cook University, analysing the needs of female survivors of sexual violence and their experiences with transitional justice processes. In 2015/2016, Judith spent time in Rwanda to interview women who survived sexual violence during the genocide against the Tutsi and who raised their case at a local community court. Deeply moved by the women’s accounts, Judith made a promise to take every opportunity to tell the women’s stories so that people could hear about them and learn from what had happened to them.

Kate Fern

Described as being innovative supportive motivated and determined Kate founded The Power of Pallets Inc. a not for profit organisation which recycles and upcycles wooden pallets. From small humble beginnings the organisation has grown to establish Work for the Dole activities including a café, a wood recycling and construction shed, administration and a community garden.

Paul Giacomin

Dr. Paul Giacomin is currently an Advance Queensland Mid-Career Research Fellow in the Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine at James Cook University in Cairns. His research interests include understanding the immune mechanisms that control infections with parasitic helminths (worms), as well as exploring the potential beneficial effects that worm infection may have in alleviating inflammation associated with autoimmune diseases.

Roz Pappalardo & Deb Suckling

Roz has been a constant in the Australian music industry for approximately 20 years, as musician, (one half of women in docs, independent original and international touring act, and as a solo artist), and as presenter, programmer and producer based in regional Queensland. Deb Suckling has been involved with the music community for nearly 20 years. She started off as singer/songwriter in various bands. Deb was the Program Manager at QMusic for almost 7 years, overseeing a number of projects including coordinating the annual Queensland Music Awards, Women In Music Conference, the annual Home CD and coordinating professional development and educational workshops across QLD.

Terri Janke

Terri Janke was born in Cairns and has family connections to the Torres Strait Islands (Meriam) and Cape York (Wuthathi). She was awarded NAIDOC Person of the Year 2011, the Attorney General’s Indigenous Lawyer of the Year 2012, and was a finalist in the 2015 NSW Telstra Business Women’s Awards. Terri is the Solicitor Director of Terri Janke and Company, a commercial law firm. She is an international authority on Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) and has written the leading protocols and ICIP models in the film, arts and museum and archival sector. She is valued mentor, an advocate for Indigenous rights, an accredited mediator and governance expert.

Tobin Northfield

Dr. Northfield is an ecologist at James Cook University that evaluates species interactions to improve services like pollination and pest control provided for us by naturally occurring animals. Through his research he has found that improving biodiversity in predator communities often leads to increased pest control, and thus increased food production. He is also evaluating ways of improving pollination by pollinator communities. One focus crop in his research, cacao, serves as an important source of income for many people across the world, as well as produces cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate.

Tracey Hannah

Tracey Hannah, is a champion downhill mountain biker who was born and raised in Cairns. She is currently ranked number three in the world. Tracey started riding bikes at three years of age, and when she was just four years old raced her first national BMX title. Tracey began her professional downhill mountain biking career at the age of 14, when she raced her first elite national title and came second. She has since won a plethora of mountain biking titles, including first place in the Australian Championships 2014, first place in the Crankworx Air DH in 2014, and first place in the City Downhill Bratislava in 2013. After taking a break following a few serious accidents which left her with two broken collarbones, a bruised lung, and a broken femur, Tracey returned to racing in 2014. She placed third in the 2015 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships and in 2016 Tracey won her ninth Elite Women Downhill Australian Championships.