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Leading the Aussie way

How is leading Australians different? What are the essential characteristics of leadership?
Wed 15 May 2013
Andrew Scipione
John Anderson
Mark Scott
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How is leading Australians different?

What are the essential characteristics of leadership?

There are some leaders we instinctively warm to, and then there are others we love to loathe.

Why? What attracts us to good leaders? Is it the oratory skills of an Obama, the courage of a Churchill, the vision of a Jobs, the brashness of a Branson or perhaps the humility of a Gandhi?

Against the backdrop of the imminent federal election, our specialist panel will consider if there is anything distinctive about the way Australians lead and respond to leadership. Has Jesus' model of sacrifice and service left an indelible mark on our understanding of true leadership?

These videos were recorded on Wednesday May 15 and Thursday May 16, at our CBD locations.

John Anderson AO is a former Australian politician. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the rural-based National Party of Australia from July 1999 to July 2005.

Mark Scott AO is the Managing Director of the ABC. Mark spent almost twelve years in a variety of editorial and executive positions with Fairfax Media. He was Editorial Director of Fairfax’s newspaper and magazine division and Editor-in-Chief of Metropolitan, Regional and Community newspapers.

Andrew Scipione APM is the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force.

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Sam Chan

Kara Martin

Andrew Laird

Caroline Spencer

Robert Martin

Sharon Cooper

Stephen McAlpine

Justine Toh

Russ Matthews

Natasha Moore

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John Anderson

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years from 1989 in the Australian Parliament. He served as a senior Cabinet minister in the reformist government led by John Howard (1996 to 2005), one of the most successful governments in Australian parliamentary history.  This included six years as Leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister.
He also held the position of the 10th Leader of the National Party of Australia during his time as Deputy PM. In 2005 he announced his retirement and resigned from his positions as Deputy PM and the National Party leader, but remained on as MP in the House of Representatives until his retirement in 2007.

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Andrew Scipione

Andrew was the New South Wales Police Commissioner from 2007-2017. He worked for the NSW Police Force for more than four decades in a decorated career that included targeting global organised gangs and heading up campaigns to reduce alcohol-related and domestic violence.

Andrew was a recipient of the National Medal in 1996 and Australian Police Medal in 2003. In 2016 he was named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List as an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia for his service to law enforcement and “advancing the professionalism of policing and leadership of international investigations and counter terrorism activities”.