John Della Bosca

Throughout his professional career and personal life, John has maintained a strong interest in policy development particularly disability and Drug and alcohol policy. He has demonstrated this through his leadership of large progressive organisations such as the General Secretary of the ALP, as a social reformer while in a leadership role in the NSW Government. Later as an advocate for the disadvantaged and marginalized he has had successes in changing government positions, the most outstanding examples being the establishment of Sydney’s Medically Supervised Injecting Center and his role as Every Australian Counts Campaign Director. During his career John has served on a large number on NGO, government, private and cultural boards. John is currently a professional consultant in the disability and Mental health areas and had a stint as Research Director at the Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University until October 2020.