JANE DIPLOCK

Jane is the National Director Infrastructure and Strategic Planning and NSW Regional Commissioner for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, having been appointed in January 1999. Prior to this she was a consultant to the Commission.

She was formerly the Director-General, Department of Training and Education Co-ordination and the Managing Director of the NSW TAFE Commission. Between 1988 and 1993, she was a senior executive with Westpac.

Jane's qualifications include an Honours degree in Arts, a Law degree and a Diploma in Education from Sydney University, and a Diploma in International Law, International Economics and International Relations from the Australian National University. In 1986 Jane was a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics on a British Council Chevening Scholarship. She was awarded a Fellowship of the Institute of Public Administration in recognition of her contribution to public administration in Australia.

She is currently Chair of the Council of The Womens College at the University of Sydney, President of the Board of Directors of the YWCA of Sydney, a member of the Securities Institute Open Entry Academic Advisory Committee and is a member of Chief Executive Women Inc. She is also a member of the Board of the Australian String Quartet.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>