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The Dart Centre activities in Australasia are supported by our Senior Advisors, bringing together a number of leading professionals.
 Alexander McFarlane
Senior Advisor
Professor Alexander McFarlane is head of the Deptartment of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide. He is one of the leaders in the field of trauamtic stress. He is the head of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Adelaide, based at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He is a recognised international expert in the field of post traumatic stress disorder and is a past president of both the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2003, Professor McFarlane was presented with the Robert Laufer Award for outstanding scientific achievemnt in the study of the effects of traumatic stress. He is the senior advisor in psychiatry to the Australian Defence Force and the Australian Centre for Post Traumatic Mental Health. He is also an advisor to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs on a scientific investigation of Gulf War syndrome. He has acted as an advisor to many groups in post-disaster situations, including the Kuwaiti Government and the United Nations. He has lectured and run workshops in Europe, the United States of America, Asia and South Africa.
 John Wallace
Senior Advisor
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.
 Tom Burton
Senior Advisor
Tom Burton is executive editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald, responsible for the overall resourcing and planning for both papers. He also oversees quality and ethics issues.
Tom was previously Managing editor for Sydney Morning Herald online and was responsible for its web sites, including the flagship news site, www.smh.com.au and its affiliated sites.
Before his involvement in online Tom was previously Canberra Bureau chief of TheAustralian Financial Review which he joined in 1993. and the paper’s chief political correspondent for six years.
He joined The Australian Financial Review in 1993 after several years as the Economics Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Before becoming a journalist, Tom worked as a financial and human resources manager with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Before that, he worked as a Ministerial adviser for the Australian Government for several years, first for the Minister for Housing and Construction and then as senior adviser to the Minister For Communications, in Canberra.
In the early 1980s, Tom worked in the Federal public service for the Department of Finance and Australia’s national anti-trust agency, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Tom holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree (dual economics and accounting majors) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of NSW with specialisations in commercial and trade practices. He is admitted to the Bar of New South Wales to practise as a barrister in the Supreme Court of NSW.
He has completed the Advanced Executive Program at the Media Management Centre at the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago.
He is a past Federal President of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance.
For seven years till March this year Tom was chair of the Walkley Advisory Board, the group which judges and governs Australia’s leading journalistic awards. He has won two Walkley Awards, in 1993 and 1999.
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