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The Dart Centre activities in Australasia are supported by an Australasian Executive Committee, bringing together a number of leading professionals.
 Philip Castle
Communications Director
Castle is a print journalist who is now a lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. He spent two years in Vietnam and became the Director of Information with the Australian Federal Police. He has researched how Australian journalists cope with traumatic stories and has travelled extensively overseas continuing that work.
 Kerry Green
Research Director
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.
 Trina McLellan
Training Director
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.
 Cait McMahon
Director, Dart Centre Australasia
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
Senior Writer, The Age
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.
 John Wallace
Development Director
Program director of the Asia Pacific Journalism Centre and a past president of the Journalism Education Association, Wallace has managed and delivered professional development programs for journalists in the Asia Pacific region over the past 20 years, including post-conflict work in East Timor, governance-related workshops in the southwest Pacific, and professional dialogue initiatives in China and Indonesia. He has degrees from the University of Melbourne and started in journalism with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Before joining the APJC, he was associate professor in journalism at the University of Queensland.
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