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Past presidents

Tracy Jones FPRIA - 2008 - 2009 Immediate Past President
Tracy has extensive experience in PR and Marketing Communication, having worked in politics, government and the education sector before establishing her own consultancy Creative Territory in Darwin.

Tracy started her career as a journalist, before movinged to the public relations industry where she held senior positions in government and the local university.

Tracy has won four national and 11 state awards for public relations and marketing excellence and was invited to become a Fellow of the PRIA in 2003.

Annabelle Warren FPRIA - 2005 - 2007, Chairman Primary Communication
Annabelle has extensive experience in corporate strategy development and Asia Pacific communication programs. She is presently National Chair of PRIA's Registered Consultancy Group.

For several years she worked in Asia as Executive Vice-President of Hill and Knowlton, one of the global top three public affairs consultancies. During that time she lived in Singapore and also ran their China operations from Beijing. Annabelle is a recognised academic in the communication field and ran the graduate and post-graduate organisational communication programs for Charles Sturt University from 1997-2001.

Rob Masters FPRIA - 2003 - 2005, Principal of Robert Masters & Associates, a Director of InterCapital Group
Rob Masters has more than 20 years in strategic communication across the public and private sectors, as well as more than 11 years as a senior political journalist in Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne.

He delivers lectures and addresses in Australia, Asia, the UK and USA to educational institutions, business organisations, corporations and government departments on issues and change management, as well as strategic communications. Rob is a former President of PRIA (Victoria).

Liz McLaughlin FPRIA - 2001 - 2003, Managing Director Horizon Communication Group
Liz McLaughlin has held numerous roles within PRIA, including President of the NSW Secretariat, Chairman of the NSW Accreditation Committee and Vice President of the National PRIA Board.

Having started in the PR industry in the mid eighties, she has work with chief executive officers and senior management on issues across the spectrum of public relations’ disciplines from employee communication and issues management to crisis and reputation management.

While President she focused on public relations education and she has been a dedicated teacher through her lecturing roles at Charles Sturt University, TAFE and APM Training Institute.

Prof Jim Macnamara MA, PhD, FPRIA, FAMI, CPM, FAMEC - 1999 - 2001
Jim Macnamara has a 30-year career in media, public relations and corporate communication and is an internationally recognised authority on research for planning and measurement of communication.

He has recently taken up the position of Professor of Public Communication at the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney (UTS) as well as Director of the Australian Centre for Public Communication (at UTS).

After working in senior corporate PR positions, he founded and headed a PR consultancy for 13 years, before establishing the Asia Pacific office of global media analysis firm, CARMA International and working full-time in media and communication research. Jim is the author of 11 books.

• Alex Gottshall 1986 - 1987
• Candy Tymson -
• Marjorie Anderson 1992 - 1993
• Bill Mackey 1988
• Hal Myers 1981 - 1982
• Bill Sherman
• Jim Griffin 1976
• H.A. Tony Stevenson 1972
• Shan Hoskyns 1969 -1971
• John Flower 1969
• Trevor Craddock 1966 -1968
• Donald Dyer
• Ron Cameron 1963 - 1965
• Noel Griffiths
• Sir Asher Joel - Founding Member of PRIA (NSW)

PRIA president's award - list of recipients

• 2009 Catherine Baker
• 2008 Annabelle Warren
• 2007 Brian Mahoney
• 2006 Robert Masters
• 2005 Joy Chia
• 2004 James Mahoney
• 2003 Tony Harrison
• 2002 Fran Hagon
• 2001 Robert Gibbs
• 2000 John Malone
• 1999 Marjorie Anderson
• 1998 Susan Driscoll
• 1997 Noel Turnbull
• 1996 Arthur Delbridge
• 1995 Graeme Allen
• 1994 Adrian Goulding
• 1993 Peter Wayne (Hon Solicitor)
• 1992 David Potts
• 1991 Peter Lazar

Last Updated: August 4, 2010