Conversation with...

September 2023

Dr Janni Leung

NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland (UQ).

In each Connections we ask someone from the alcohol and other drugs sector to share a little about their work and life.

October 2015

Professor Mike Daube AO

Mike Daube is Professor of Health Policy at Curtin University, where he is Director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute and the McCusker Centre for Action on Alcohol and Youth.

I reckon that the older you are, the more driven you get – and when you get to 67, you become increasingly conscious that there is only limited time in which you can make a contribution.

August 2015

Dr Ken Pidd

Deputy Director, Research - NCETA

I wish I'd never... ignored the advice my father gave me in the late 1970’s about the importance of investing in real estate for the long term.

June 2015

Professor Maree Teesson

Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Mental Health and Substance Use (CREMS) based at NDARC

This weekend I will... get to spend some quality time with my gorgeous family, read a book, watch my two fabulous girls play footb

April 2015

Associate Professor Ted Wilkes, AO

Aboriginal Research Team, National Drug Research Institute

I'll never forget... the time I got to sing “From little things big things grow” with the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) at the 20-20 Summit in Canberra in 2008.

February 2015

Ms Carrie Fowlie

Executive Officer, Alcohol Tobacco and Other Drug Association ACT (ATODA)

The qualities I most value in my colleagues are... the generosity of their hearts and minds. Our sector is made up of people who happily and openly share their expertise and experience.

November 2014