Union and ALP links - Industry Superannuation Funds

1. Australian retirement trust

Andrew Fraser, Chair, ( Labor Treasurer of Queensland from 2007 to 2012)
Beth Mohle, (previous Secretary of the Queensland Nurses' and Midwives Union)
Michael Clifford (previous General Secretary of the Queensland Council of Unions from August 2019 to July 2023)
Shayne Maxwell (Legal Manager of the Queensland Policy Union of Employees, Executive Member of the Queensland Council of Unions)
Kate Ruttiman (General Secretary of the Queensland Teachers’ Union)
Aaron Santelises, (Legal Advisor for The Australian Workers’ Union)

Dr Don Russell, Chair (Former political adviser to Paul Keating)
Julia Angrisano, (National Secretary of the Finance Sector Union (FSU))
Michele O’Neil, (President of the ACTU)
Jo-anne Schofield (National President of the United Workers Union and ACTU Vice President)
Glenn Thompson (Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union)
Misha Zelinsky (Formerly Assistant National Secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union)

Stewart Little, (General Secretary of the Public Service Association of NSW, Branch Secretary, Community and Public Sector Union, NSW Branch)
John Dixon (Former General Secretary and Deputy General Secretary of the NSW Teachers Federation)
Pip Carew, (Former Assistant Secretary of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (Victorian Branch))
Angela Nigro (Chief Financial Officer of the Health Services Union for NSW, ACT and Queensland and on the State Executive Board for the Australian Labor Party NSW)

The Hon Wayne Swan, Chair
John Edwards, (Former political adviser to Paul Keating)
Rita Mallia, (Rita has worked for the CFMEU for 18 years)
Abha Devasia (Abha has worked at the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AWMU) for over five years)
Dave Noonan (15 years as National Secretary of the CFMEU)
Earl Setches, (State and federal secretary of the Plumbing Trades Employees Union)
Jason O’Mara, (CFMEU ACT Secretary since 2018)
Kade Wakefield, (Kade has worked at the Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) for over 13)

Tim Lyons, (Assistant Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) (2008–2015)
Gary Bullock, (United Workers Union, State Secretary, Director of Politics and Vice President, National Executive Committee (2019–present))
Bev Myers, (Deputy Director, Member Engagement, United Workers Union (2019–2021))

Nicola Roxon, Chair, (Attorney-General (2011-2013), Minister for Health and Ageing (2007-2011) and Labor Member for Gellibrand (1998-2013))
Helen Gibbons, (Executive Director at United Workers Union and has held a number of senior leadership roles at UnitedVoice since 2004)
Emeline Gaske, (Assistant National Secretary at the Australian Services Union)
Benjamin Davison, (Formerly the Chief of Staff at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU))
Kate Marshall, (Assistant State Secretary of the Health and Community Services Union (HSU, Vic No. 2 Branch))

James Merlino, Chair (Deputy Premier of Victoria in the Labor Government from 2014 to 2022)
Julia Fox, (National Assistant Secretary of the SDA)
Helen Cooney, (Principal Policy Officer (Superannuation and Industry Training) at the SDA)

Sarah Roberts, (Secretary of the Victorian Division of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU))
Michael McNally, (Mr McNally has over nineteen years’ experience working at the NTEU in various roles, having first begun as an Organiser, Industrial Officer, and then as an elected official with the NTEU. Currently Mr McNally sits on the NTEU National Executive)