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Independent Reviewers

UNITING REPORTS CONSUMERS COMMUNICATING ACCESSIBLE LIAISING
ACCOUNTABILITY STANDARDS INTERNET RELIABLE GOVERNMENT
ADVERTISERS RESPONSIVE MEMBERS TELEVISION INITIATIVES ACCOUNTABILITY
POSTERS COMMUNITY DETERMINATION OUTDOOR INDEPENDENT PEOPLE
TRANSPARENCY RADIO COMPLAINT PARTNERING SELF-REGULATE
An independent review process for Advertising Standards Board ( Board ) decisions has been in place since April 2008 .
The process provides the community and advertisers a channel through which they can appeal decisions made by the Board .
Independent Reviewers are Victoria Rubensohn AM and Robin Creyke . Emeritus Professor Dennis Pearce AO retired as an Independent Reviewer in 2015 .
LIAISING COMPLAINT DETERMINATION CONSOLIDATING
ACCOUNTABILITY COMMUNITY EDUCATING SELF-REGULATE
MERGING COMMUNICATING SOCIAL MEDIA
TELEVISION COOPERATING ACCOUNTABILITY
STANDARDS ADVERTISERS BILLBOARDS
TRANSPORT AUTHORITY POSTERS
BILLBOARDS PARTNERING
INDEPENDENT
SELF-REGULATE
BONDING
RADIO EDUCATING
BUSINESS GOVERNMENT
DETERMINATION TRANSPORT
Victoria Rubensohn AM
Victoria Rubensohn is the current Convenor of the Classification Review Board and since 1991 has been Principal of international communications consultancy Omni Media , which specialises in communications regulatory policy . She is a consumer representative member of the Mobile Premium Services Code Review Panel and is a member of the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network Standing Advisory Committee .
Victoria is a board member of the Communications Law Centre and Director and Company Secretary of Media Access Australia . She has worked in radio and television in Australia and the USA and is a member of the Royal Television Society ( UK ). Victoria has worked extensively internationally in communications institution- building and is co-creator of a United Nations Convention on Disaster Communications .
Victoria has chaired government and non‐government bodies and committees including :
• Chair of the National Film and Sound Archive
• Chair of the Telephone Information Services Standards Council for 15 years
• Chair of the Federal Government ’ s Copyright Convergence Group
• Chair of the Federal Government ’ s Digital Radio Advisory Committee
Victoria has been a Member of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal and a Member of the Immigration Review Tribunal . She is a former President of the Communications and Media Law Association and has also been a member of the Copyright Law Review Committee .
Victoria was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2004 .
Victoria holds a Bachelor of Arts ( Sydney ), Master of Arts [ in Government ] ( Sydney ), Bachelor of Laws ( UNSW ) and Master of Human Rights ( Sydney ).
Robin Creyke
Law and public administration has been a focus of Emeritus Professor Robin Creyke ’ s practice , research and teaching . She is an emeritus professor at the Australian National University and a senior ( sessional ) member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal .
Until recently , Ms Creyke was a senior ( executive ) member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal , as well as spending 11 years as a member of the Administrative Review Council ( 1999-2010 ) and five years as Commissioner of the ACT Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission ( ICRC 2001-2006 ). Her work as an Integrity Adviser with the Australian Tax Office ( 2006-2009 ) was instrumental in increasing the robustness of the agency ’ s integrity framework .
Since 2012 , Professor Creyke has been a member of the Federal Litigation Committee of the Law Council of Australia , which keeps her informed of relevant and current activities in administrative law . While at the ICRC her work involved development of consumer codes as well as development of a framework for the ICRC ’ s complaints mechanism .
Professor Creyke has developed a specialty interest in tribunals and government and is recognised as a national and international expert in this area . This expertise is reflected in the long list of publications credited to her . In the area of administrative law alone she has written or edited 10 books , two monographs and over 50 chapters and articles , more than 40 of which were in referred journals or invited publications .
Professor Creyke lives in Canberra and in her spare time enjoys cooking , gardening , bushwalking and relaxing with friends .
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