Jenny Brockie is one of Australia's most gifted and sought after forum facilitators.
Jenny Brockie is well known for hosting SBS TV’s weekly program INSIGHT where she facilitates lively and thought provoking discussions on a wide range of topics. Jenny’s career spans television, radio and print. She has received a swag of awards for her work including the Gold Walkley, two AFI Awards, a Logie, and a Human Rights Award. Jenny has also won eight United Nations Association Media Peace Awards for her work on INSIGHT.

Michael Gorton AM is a senior partner at Russell Kennedy Lawyers and has more than 25 years’ experience advising the health and medical sector on all aspects of commercial law, assisting boards of health organisations to understand their legal obligations for effective governance structures, governance policies and implementing risk management strategies. He is the Chair of Alfred Health. He is a Board member of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine and Ambulance Victoria, and is the former Chair of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). He is a former Chair of the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.

Courtney Hempton is a bioethicist and interdisciplinary researcher, with particular interest in the management of dying and death. She is currently a PhD Candidate with the Monash Bioethics Centre at Monash University, and her doctoral research focuses on the emergence of law, policies, and practices regarding ‘voluntary assisted dying’ in Victoria. Courtney also teaches ethics, health law, and professionalism into the medicine programs at Deakin University and Monash University, and is a member of both the Clinical Ethics Committee and the Voluntary Assisted Dying Steering Committee at Monash Health.

The Honourable Betty King is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. She joined the Victorian Bar in 1975. In 1986 she became the first female prosecutor in Victoria, later becoming the first female Commonwealth prosecutor. In 1992 she was appointed Queen's Counsel. During the late 1990s she was a member of the National Crime Authority at one point acting as chair of the Authority. She became a judge of the County Court of Victoria in 2000 and a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2005 until her retirement in 2015.

Prof Reymond is Deputy Director, Metro South Palliative Care Service (MSPCS) and Director, Brisbane South Palliative Care Collaborative. Her research interests include palliative care symptom management and service delivery and development. Liz is currently working on implementation of a district-wide End-of-Life Care Strategy and directing a national palliative care project.

Belinda is a 27 year old law graduate from WA, where a VAD bill is being debated in Parliament. Belinda saw first-hand the kind of death that can happen in the absence of a VAD law when she watched her mum die from metastatic breast cancer in palliative care in 2016. Her mother’s ordeal motivated Belinda to write a submission to the WA Parliamentary Inquiry, and appeared before the committee in person to make her case. This year Belinda spent 70 days walking 3,500km from Melbourne to Perth to raise awareness about the urgent need for a VAD law in WA.

Dr Herb trained as a a General Surgeon in Germany and Norway, and as a rural generalist in Australia where he obtained FRACGP and a Masters in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. He worked in multiple countries from the arctic to tropic regions, and has been working in rural and remote General Practice in Australia since 1998. His special interests include Ethics in Medicine, remote Emergency Medicine, Aboriginal Health, and Palliative Care. He has been involved in the Voluntary Assisted Dying debate for more than 3 decades.