Moira Rayner – presently Acting Commissioner for Equal Opportunity in Western Australia - has a national reputation as a lawyer and in social policy development. She has an LL.B (Hons) and an M.A. (Public Policy). She was first admitted to the Bar in 1972 (WA) and has current practising status in WA, NSW, Victoria and the High Court. From 1986-1990 she was Commissioner/Chairman of the Western Australian Law Reform Commission and from 1990-1994 Commissioner for Equal Opportunity, Victoria. From 1994 to 2000 she was a consultant, initially for the national law firm Dunhill Madden Butler (now Deacons) where she established the firm’s Discrimination Law Practice and then on her own account providing advice and representation, conduct of investigations and dispute resolution for employers and corporate clients. She left in 2000 to establish the Office of Children’s Rights Commissioner for London, where she has been very successful in modeling effective children’s participation in management of the Office itself and in government decision-making as well as drafting the first Children’s Strategy for the Greater London Authority. Moira has also held a number of contemporaneous part-time appointments including Chair, Council of the Financial Services Complaints Resolution Scheme; Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission; and a columnist for The Age. She has been appointed an Adjunct Professor at a number of Universities and is a Senior Fellow in the Law School (Melbourne) and a Visiting Scholar at Murdoch’s School of Social Inquiry. Moira has held a number of positions in community organizations including Chair of the National Children’s and Youth Law Centre, Director of the National Federation of Australian Women and member of the Board of Governors of the Australian Council of Social Service. She has written a number of successful books, including The Women’s Power Handbook, with Joan Kirner (first woman Premier of Victoria); Resilient Children and Young People, with Meg Montague; Rooting Democracy: Growing the Society We Want, with Jenny Lee and she is completing The A-Z of Children’s Rights for Amnesty UK. Her next book is Joan Kirner’s biography.