Kate Woods: Panel Moderator

Kate Woods is a neurodivergent writer and coach, with a wealth of knowledge in mental health and complex systems. Throughout her work with both individual and organisation behaviours, she has developed a strong focus on systemic and social justice. She believes that in this era of rapid social change, there is a strong need for the unique insights that neurodivergent leadership can offer, and her current work involves the development of keys to educate, explain, and facilitate truly authentic communication.

David McBride

David McBride is an Australian whistleblower and former British Army major and Australian Army lawyer who from 2014 to 2016 made information (the "Afghan Files") on war crimes allegedly committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan available to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, who broadcast details in 2017. In 2018, David was charged with several related offences, and is awaiting trial. The allegations were reviewed in the Brereton Report.

Linda Ryle

Linda is a Birrigubba (Birri - gubba) and Kamilaroi (Kam–mill–a–roy) Woman, who has been contributing to Aboriginal Affairs since the 1990s.

A number of years Linda worked with her communities when engage by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (North Queensland, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast), more than a dozen years spent with the Department of Justice and Attorney General and more recently within the Tertiary sector teaching and writing about Law.

Abbey Wilkinson: Moral Injury In Insurance

Abbey Wilkinson is a survivor of 16 years in the worker's compensation system. Injured at 22, the next 16 years were spent living under the adversarial processes of worker's compensation insurance.

Despite upholding the requirements placed on her as an injured worker, Abbey will now live with Chronic Pain for the rest of her life due to red tape delaying surgery to fix her injury. A routine surgery that went horribly wrong caused life-threatening blood loss. On paper, Abbey should have been pronounced deceased. Abbey talks to institutional betrayal and the profound shame she felt at being injured.