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The Dart Centre activities in Australasia are supported by a Board of Directors, bringing together a number of leading professionals.
 Cait McMahon
Executive Director
Cait McMahon is a registered psychologist with a significant history of clinical private practice, organisational development consulting and employee assistance programs. Cait’s interest in journalism and trauma was ignited when working in a counselling role at ‘The Age’ newspaper for 5 1/2 years in the late 80’s to mid 90’s. This work led to post-graduate research by Cait in 1993 on the issue of journalism and trauma. This was a pilot study and was published in 2001. To date Cait is the only Australian psychologist to be published in the area of journalism and trauma.
After running a successful psychological practice, ‘cmc-People Development’ for many years, Cait is now specialising specifically in trauma rather than general psychology. Cait maintains her clinical skills by continuing to work with Vietnam veterans with diagnosed PTSD. She continues to pursue further research at Swinburne University in Melbourne into journalism and trauma, focussing on both Post Traumatic Growth and Post Traumatic Stress experienced by news media professionals. In her spare time, Cait is the Director of the Dart Centre in Australasia, a role that she takes on as part of a team of others in Australasia who pool their passion and expertise in working towards the goals of the Dart mission.
Cait is married to Peter Ghys and has three beautiful sons who are quickly learning the ‘ins and outs’ of trauma and the world of journalism.
 Gary Tippet
Director
Gary Tippet is the first Australian to be awarded an Ochberg Fellowship by the Dart Centre. A prestigious Fellowship to hold.
A senior writer with The Age, Gary began in journalism in 1972, at the Sun News-Pictorial and joined The Sunday Age in 1993, moving to The Age when the two papers merged in 1998. In the time since, he has have covered some of Australia's biggest stories including the East Timor crisis of late 1999-2000, the Thredbo ski resort landslide, the Moura coalmine collapse in Queensland, and a number of major crime stories including the disappearance and murder of Jaidyn Leskie, the Port Arthur massacre and the Bega schoolgirls murder trial. In 2000 he covered the military coup in Fiji.
Much of Gary’s writing has focused on trauma and its victims.
In 1997 he won a Walkley, for Slaying The Monster, an account of an abused child who, 30 years later, returned to kill his molester with an axe, and has won two Quill's and three Legal Reporting Awards.
In recent years, Gary has written a number of articles on motor vehicle trauma, including Fatalities #74 and #75; April's Story and Sudden Impact, in which he spent three months following the victim of a serious injury road accident, from crash to recovery. The result was a 10,000 word, four broadsheet page special report, which won the 2002 Transport Quill Award.
 Bruce Shapiro
Director
Shapiro, who has taught investigative journalism at Yale University since 1994, is the international Executive Director of the Dart Center. A longtime contributor to The Nation, Shapiro co-authored the book, Legal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future, with Rev. Jesse Jackson and congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. His history of investigative reporting, Shaking the Foundations, was published in November 2002. His reporting has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, and the Los Angeles Times.
Shapiro first became involved with the Dart Centre after being seriously injured in a 1994 assault, leading him to consider the relationship between journalists and the victims of crime. As field director, he serves as an advisor and associate in planning and developing Dart Centre programs.
 Trina McLellan
Secretary
Trina McLellan is a newspaper journalist/copy editor who has taught journalism to university students for more than 10 years. A former police rounds reporter, Trina examined the impact of news reporting on victims and survivors of traumatic incidents for her Master of Arts thesis. She is currently considering the way newsrooms respond to traumatic incidents.
Trina has also worked in corporate and public information roles where she has had crisis communication experience after traumatic incidents.
 Kerry Green
Executive Member
Green is associate professor and head of the school of Professional Communication at the University of Canberra. He is a print journalist becoming editor of the Queensland Times and various other news management roles. He continues to research trauma in the newsroom which embraces how newsroom practice affects journalists and audiences.
 Jim Tully
Executive Member
Jim Tully is Head of School and Program Director, Journalism, in the School of Political Science and Communication at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.
He holds a Master of Arts with Honours and a Graduate Diploma in Journalism and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses. He also researches in the areas of media ethics, science communication and foreign news.
Before moving into academia in 1987, Tully worked for 18 years in daily newspapers, becoming editorial manager and assistant editor of The Auckland Star and editor of weekend newspaper 8 O'Clock.
While Pacific Affairs writer for The Auckland Star he was inaugural winner of the New Zealand Journalist of the Year Award for coverage of the Cook Islands election scandal.
Later, as an editorial executive, he had delivered in-house training. During his career, Tully has been a member of the Journalists' Training Board, chair of the Auckland Institute of Technology's Journalism Advisory Committee, and a former president of the Northern Journalists' Union.
Tully has just been commissioned to write the new national journalism text by the industry organisation which oversees journalism training in New Zealand. He is also editing a book on risk communication.
Tully has been a UNESCO consultant on journalism in Western Samoa and the Cook Islands and has also been the New Zealand Vice Chancellors' Committee representative on the National Advisory Committee on Media Studies.
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