Terry has extensive
experience as a forensic psychologist working in private practice,
mainly in family law, child protection and criminal jusrisdictions.
He is an honorary senior fellow in the School
of Population Health at the University of Melbourne and chairs
the Victorian
Mental Health Reform Council.
Terry was born in Melbourne and educated at
Marist Brothers' College,
North Fitzroy. Ordained in 1975, he worked as Catholic Parish
Priest of Parkville and Chaplain to the University of Melbourne.
During this time, he presented the Pater Award winning program,
Tapestry, on FOX-FM. Terry completed an Arts Degree with Honours
in psychology at Melbourne University in 1978 and a Law Degree
in 1992.
He resigned from the Catholic priesthood in 1987,
and worked as a policy advisor on health services to older people
in the Victorian Health Department, before working as the presenter
of the Late Night program on Radio
3UZ. He started with ABC
Radio 3LO in Melbourne in 1991, and presented the Evening
Program before moving to the 3LO Drive Program at the start of
1997.
Terry left the ABC after 10 years in 2000 for
RMIT where he became Associate Professor of Communications at
RMIT
University's
Centre
for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies (CIRCIT).
Since
2002 he has worked as a psychologist and communications consultant.
He has also presented replacement shifts on Talk
1116 3AK and presentation training for SBS
Radio in Melbourne.
Terry's interest in the community is shown the
variety of his public appointments: he has chaired the
Victorian Road Safety
Co-ordinating Council and has consulted for the National Campaign
Against Drug Abuse and the Victorian Community Council against
Violence.
He is currently the Chair of the Smartwater
Fund Independent Assessment Panel and of the Port of Melbourne
Corporation Channel
Deepening Project Community Liaison Group.
Other recent appointments have included membership
of the Adult
Parole Board of Victoria, the Victorian
Civil and Administrative Tribunal, the Advisory Board for VicRoads and
chairing the Victorian Environment Protection Authority's Panel
advising
on Melbourne
Water's proposals
to upgrade the Eastern Sewerage Treatment Plant. Terry has also
been a member of the Boards of the Burnet
Centre, the Victoria Police Ethical Standards Consultative
Committee and the Windana
Society and of the Council of the Victorian Institute of
Forensic
Mental
Health (Forensicare).
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