Experience

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  National Office for Child Safety

  • Canberra and Melbourne

  • Advisory Group member

    • Apr 2022 - Present
    • Canberra and Melbourne

    Advising on sports sector issues that relate to child abuse prevention

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  Athlete Rights Australia

  • Co-founder and director

    • Oct 2021 - Present

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  QUT (Queensland University of Technology)

  • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  • Doctoral candidate at EOI stage, child safe policies in Australian gymnastics

    • Jun 2021 - Present
    • Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    'Are we Safer Now?' applies public health and regulatory theory to chid safe policies in Australian gymnastics to analyse if we are making our sport safer for the next generation. The author tracks the progress of Australian gymnastics policies through the decades, with particular focus on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse. She brings to this thesis the insights of being a child athlete in high-performance gymnastics, knowledge of the socio-cultural pressures that surround policy application, and the experience of being a survivor rallying for positive change to sport.

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  Non-Profit Organization Owls for Justice

  • Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

  • President

    • Mar 2021 - Present
    • Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

    Founder and president of Owls for Justice, a newly incorporated NFP looking at the reforms set down by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. We're holding the various tiers of government to their promises to make sure the 400+ recommendations for human rights reforms are implemented and not left to languish.

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  alisonquigley.com

  • Sunshine Coast

  • Author

    • Jan 2016 - Oct 2021
    • Sunshine Coast

    Writer of crime and general fiction with five manuscripts at various stages of development. I also undertake manuscript appraisals with specific expertise in legal and nautical fields.

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  Spokesperson, Regional Writers' Reference Group, Queensland Writers Centre

  • Sunshine Coast

  • Community Volunteer

    • Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
    • Sunshine Coast

    Collating and reporting back to the QWC on literary events on the Sunshine Coast with a view to networking and cross promotion.

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  Self-employed

  • Buderim

  • Novelist

    • Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
    • Buderim

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  Sunshine Coast Literary Association

  • Administrative assistant

    • Jun 2014 - Jan 2016

  • Secretary

    • Aug 2012 - Jan 2015

    *Convincing writers to come up to the Sunny Coast for workshops and discussion nights (always helps to mention that we have great beaches and the occasional whale passing by).*Media liaison (thanks to the wonderful support of the local ABC up here) *Venue spotting ( the well practiced line "um...is there any possibility you'd hire that to us for free?")*Developing networks with libraries, and other writing groups (there are 22 other writing groups on the Coast; that must be some kind of national record when analysed as a per-head-of-population figure) *Finding various excuses to dive into book shops ("do you mind if we hang our poster in your shop?...oh yes, that's right...the new Tim Winton book...I might just buy that while I'm here") *Chatting, talking and gabbing on about all things related to books and writing.*Occasional frenetic biscuit baking. *Cheese platters with unevenly cut Cheddar.

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  Nambour Artistic and Special Needs Gymnastics Club Inc

  • Nambour PCYC

  • Administrator/Founder

    • Apr 2009 - Jun 2012
    • Nambour PCYC

    Administrator, treasurer, part-time gymnastics coach and co-founder of Australia's first special needs gymnastics club, dedicated to helping kids with physical, intellectual and social challenges. The club was started by myself and coach Andre Rizzo with the support and financial assistance of the Nambour PCYC and the Sunshine Coast Regional Council. It now operates from the Big Pineapple at Woombye.

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  Masters degree and two undergraduate degrees

  • UQ

  • Masters Graduate

    • Feb 1995 - Dec 2007
    • UQ

    Law and arts degree, as well as Masters of Philosophy majoring in Creative Writing

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  Mighty Muffins Catering

  • Gold Coast

  • Administrator/owner

    • 1992 - 1994
    • Gold Coast

    Operating catering business and employing staff on the Gold Coast

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  Northern Territory News

  • Darwin

  • Reporter

    • 1987 - 1988
    • Darwin

    Cyclone parties, wet t-shirt competitions, and front-page story about a croc biting the testicles off a dog - 240 stitches later he still wasn't a quite the same dog he used to be. Oh, and did I tell you I met a man who keeps a croc as a pet in his backyard?

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  Northern Guardian Newspapers

  • Chief reporter

    • 1986 - 1987

    If the dust stirred on the road, I was there to report it.

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  Leader Community Newspapers

  • Cub reporter

    • 1984 - 1986