Profile

Kellie Tranter

OCCUPATION:

Attorney. Admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 17 December 1999.

OTHER POSITIONS:

• BPW International Expert on the Advisory Panel of the BPW International Standing Committee Environment & Sustainable Development & Water Taskforce. 
• Teacher (planning & environmental law).
• President Business & Professional Women Maitland 2006, 2007 and 2008. 
• Member Women’s Network (Hunter NSW).
• Member Law Society of New South Wales.
• Member Women Lawyers Association of New South Wales.

AREAS OF PRACTISE:

• Business law
• Planning and environmental law
• Business strategies
• E-commerce
• Employment and industrial law
• Insurance
• Migration
• Environment and planning law
• Intellectual property

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

• Winner John Hatton Community Democracy Award 2010.
  
• BPW International (Chairperson for the Standing Committee on Legislation). 
  
• BPW Maitland 2005 Career Woman of the Year.
• 2007 WEL Edna Ryan Award for Community Activism.
• 2007 Independent candidate for Maitland (NSW State election).
• 2007 Finalist Women Lawyers' Association of New South Wales Achievement Awards.
• Co-author of “Ensuring Product Integrity” (Australian & New Zealand Grape Growers Journal, May 2004). This paper addressed preventing the misappropriation of a producer’s product and guaranteeing the consumer correspondence between a product description and what they buy. The article reflected my personal aim of promoting systems for ensuring reputable conduct in commercial transactions and truth in advertising for the benefit of consumers.
• Author of Consider Legal Aspects in your E-commerce Strategies: Asian Pacific Women’s Information Network Centre University Press. This paper addressed ‘cross-border issues’ and focused on assisting women to take advantage of technological changes and at the same time give warnings and directions to help them steer a safe passage in those ‘uncharted seas’.
• Author of Federal Politics: Webscrubbing (New Matilda May 2007).  
• Author of Water Politics: Owning the Flow (New Matilda January 2007).
• Author of The ex-premiers' club: hold the gravy train (New Matilda November 2006).
• Author of Womenomics (New Matilda September 2006).
• Author of Guantanamo Bay: The End of Justice (New Matilda May 2006).
• Author of The Norwegian 'Big Stick':Women on Boards (Epoch Times, ABC online, Online Opinion 2008).
• Author of Climate change litigation: the heat is on (Centre Policy Development 2008)
• Author of The philosophy of climate change inaction (Online Opinion 2008)
• Author of Gender, climate change and natural disasters (Online Opinion 2008)   
• Author of War: not in my name (Online Opinion 2008)
• Author of Think about World Philosophy Day (Online Opinion/ABC online 2008)
• Author of Now we're all goin' to gas! (Online Opinion/ABC online 2008)  
• Author of Australia's Illusory Participation (Online Opinion/ABC Unleashed 2009)
• Author of Rudd must rise to the challenge (ABC Unleashed 2009)
• Author of Is it the fault of women? (Online Opinion/ABC online 2009)
• Author of Govt needs to tackle water corruption (ABC online 2009)
• Initiated and organised Maitland’s first Small Business Conference , which attracted widespread media coverage for Maitland throughout the region; initiated the Maitland East End Business Group; organised Maitland Chamber of Commerce's first Charity Golf day to raise funds for a local refuge for women and children .
• Guest presenter on 2NUR radio program - ‘Business, the law and you’.
• Guest speaker at events coordinated by BPW Maitland, State Chamber of Commerce, Hunter Valley Wine Country Tourism, Kurri Kurri Chamber of Commerce, Maitland High School, Women’s Network (Hunter) New South Wales , Maitland Partners and the Cessnock Business Group.
• Law Society of New South Wales Mock Trial Magistrate.
  

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