Wine Australia Chair Brian Walsh has welcomed today’s announcement by Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources David Littleproud MP of the new Wine Australia Board.
‘I look forward to welcoming the five new Directors who will be joining our ongoing Directors Brian Croser AO and Mary Retallack on 1 October 2018’, Mr Walsh said.
‘Our new Directors bring valuable skills in governance, research, marketing and the broader grape and wine sector and I look forward to working with them to deliver value for all our stakeholders.
‘I would like to thank our outgoing Directors Eliza Brown, David Dearie, Edouard Peter, Keith Todd and Kim Williams AM for their dedication and valued contributions. I know that they will remain deeply engaged with the Australian grape and wine community and I wish them well with their future endeavours’, he said.
From 1 October 2018, the Wine Australia Board will be:
- Brian Walsh (Chair)
- Dr Michele Allan
- Catherine Cooper
- Brian Croser AO
- Professor Peter Høj
- Cath Oates
- Mary Retallack, and
- Mitchell Taylor.
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About Wine Australia
Wine Australia supports a competitive wine sector by investing in research, development and extension (RD&E), growing domestic and international markets, protecting the reputation of Australian wine and administering the Export and Regional Wine Support Package.
Wine Australia is an Australian Commonwealth Government statutory authority, established under the Wine Australia Act 2013, and funded by grape growers and winemakers through levies and user-pays charges and the Australian Government, which provides matching funding for RD&E investments.