Director profiles

Mr David Ross

Mr Ross was the Direc­tor of the Cen­tral Land Coun­cil from 1989 – 1994 and 2000 – 2019, rep­re­sent­ing the Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ples of Cen­tral Aus­tralia. His long-stand­ing expe­ri­ence in Indige­nous Affairs includes being a Com­mis­sion­er of ATSIC and the Chair­man of the Indige­nous Land Cor­po­ra­tion. He has an Asso­ciate Diplo­ma in Busi­ness Man­age­ment from the South Aus­tralian Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy. Mr Ross has fam­i­ly ties to the Kayte­tye peo­ple of Cen­tral Australia.

Mr Jonathan McLeod

Born in Dar­win, Jonathan is of both Abo­rig­i­nal and Tor­res Strait Islander descent and is cur­rent­ly engaged by the North­ern Land Coun­cil as Man­ag­er, Region­al Devel­op­ment. Based in Dar­win he looks after a region­al office net­work in the Top End of the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry. Jonathan has worked with­in Indige­nous Affairs for 25 plus years with both the Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment and the Land Coun­cil as a Com­mon­wealth Statu­to­ry Author­i­ty. Trav­el­ling exten­sive­ly through­out the North­ern Ter­ri­to­ry he is pas­sion­ate about sup­port­ing remote Abo­rig­i­nal com­mu­ni­ties estab­lish oppor­tu­ni­ties through edu­ca­tion, employ­ment, busi­ness devel­op­ment, land man­age­ment, hous­ing, health and sport.