Independent Reviewers
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 Advertising Standards Board .
Independent Reviewers are Victoria Rubensohn AM and Robin Creyke .
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 .
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 .
Victoria holds a Bachelor of Arts ( Sydney ), Master of Arts [ in Government ] ( Sydney ), Bachelor of Laws ( UNSW ) and Master of Human Rights ( Sydney ).
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