TINA BRADSHAW

Bachelor of Applied Science/Bachelor of Business
Graduate Certificate (Pharmaceuticals)
Graduate Certificate (Human Resources)

Tina was raised on a large dairy farm north of Drouin, which is still owned and managed by her parents. She was the first member of her family to attend university (Monash).

Tina currently works at Federation University’s Berwick Campus as a Marketing Officer in the Marketing and Communications Department. As part of this role, Tina organises a number of large events including the Campus Open Days and Information Days. Prior to this, Tina also coordinated the Gippsland Campus Student Award Evenings, and, in 2012, the NAB Agribusiness Awards for Excellence.

From a community perspective, Tina is a former board member of the Baw Baw Latrobe Local Learning and Employment Network, and as part of a small team, ran a music and movement playgroup in Drouin. Previously Tina has been a member of the Committee for Drouin as well as the Drouin Ficifolia Festival Committee.

Tina is married and has two young children.

Jenny Deppeler

Higher Diploma of Teaching (Secondary Science)
Graduate Diploma (Mathematics)

Jenny completed her teacher training at Melbourne State College and Australian Catholic University. She worked at Warragul High School for three years, undertook emergency teaching for eight years, at Traralgon Technical School/Traralgon Secondary College for three years, and settled at Drouin Secondary College for seventeen years. Over her career, she has taught Mathematics, Chemistry and Science to students in Years 7 to 12. 

She has held a number of additional responsibilities and positions outside of the maths and science disciplines, including Career Advisor, VCE Coordinator, Level Coordinator and Head of Faculty.

Over many years Jenny has assisted her husband Merv in the operation of a domestic building construction and building inspection business as they raised three children.

Among Jenny’s other roles are breastfeeding counsellor, Regional Representative for Nursing Mothers Association of Australia, and school counsellor. She has also been President at Drouin Primary School, President of Drouin and District Netball Association, and a Member of Economic Development Board for Buln Buln Shire. 

Jenny assisted with the setting up of both the Drouin and District Netball Association Community Cooperative and the Drouin Primary School Community Cooperative, as well as being Director and Secretary of each cooperative for its duration.

June Harvey

Bachelor of Arts
Diploma of Education

June was born in Warragul and spent the first nineteen years of her life on the Gregory farm at Lardner. She attended the Lardner State School and Warragul High School before enrolling at the University of Melbourne, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education. 

June then commenced a teaching career spanning 30 years, teaching mostly in the Latrobe Valley. It was during this time that June met Ken, the man who would become her husband. After Ken retired, June and Ken moved to Drouin, where she now resides.

Her interests and hobbies include church, genealogy and local history, travel and music.

Robert Kiddell

Certified Financial Planner
Bachelor of Jurisdiction/Bachelor of Law
Diplomas (Financial Planning)
Fellow of the Australia Institute of Company Directors
Fellow of the Society of Notaries Victoria
Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Notaries

Robert is a certified financial planner, lawyer, notary public and company director who has wide community and professional interests. Currently, Robert consults to a Gippsland law firm and a large Latrobe Valley Financial Planning Practice, as well as maintaining his own boutique notarial practice.

His community achievements include being a former shire councillor, a Life Member of Apex, and the inaugural President of the Mirboo Community Association. He is also a former Secretary of the Gippsland Law Association and a Fellow of the Gippsland Community Leadership Program (1997).

Robert has spoken widely at conferences, and his financial comments have been published over a wide range of periodicals including Bulletin, Money and Money Management. He was the Money Management Australian Financial Planner of the Year in 2002. His current extracurricular activities include:

• Past Chairperson Uniting Church in Australia, Gippsland Presbytery; 

• Squadron Leader in the RAAF Specialist Reserve (Legal);

• Deputy Chair and Convenor Finance & Compliance Committee, Mirboo North District Community Foundation;

• Chairperson Mirboo North Uniting Church Council;

• Member UCA Synod of Victoria & Tasmania Discipline Committee;

• Member UCA Synod of Victoria & Tasmania Appeals Panel;

• Chairperson Latrobe Regional Gallery Foundation; 

• Author, Finance & Investment Chapters of Thomson Reuters / Australian Financial Planning Handbook;

• Mirboo North Schools Chaplaincy Committee member; and

• Chairperson Mirboo North Community Shed Co-operative Ltd.

Robert has extensive experience and expertise in the legal and financial spheres. As an enthusiastic amateur social entrepreneur, Robert ran the only bank agency in Mirboo North for 12 years as a ‘sideline’ after the last bank pulled out. He was also a founding director of Strzelecki Brewing Company (and Mirboo Tourism Pty Ltd). In addition to leading the return of banking to Mirboo North, Robert previously served for many years as a Director of Latrobe Country Credit Co-operative Ltd, a former APRA-regulated deposit-taking institution. He is committed to mutual and co-operative business models as well as ethical and socially responsible investing.

Wayne Roberts

Wayne is a dairy farmer. He lives with his partner Karen, a primary school teacher, and their three children on a dairy farm at Mirboo North, which Wayne manages. Wayne has lived in Mirboo North for most of his life, with the exception of a couple of years living abroad travelling and working.

He has been actively involved in the local community for many years, taking on a variety of roles on a number of committees. He played tennis and has been involved with the local tennis club for the majority of his life. For 15 years he managed the sponsorship for the Mirboo North Football/Netball Club and became a Life Member in 2007. He is an inaugural member of the Mardan/Mirboo North Landcare Group, and still involved in landcare. He was a Director and the Vice-President of the South Gippsland Herd Improvement Board for four years before it merged the organisation in 2002 to form Gippsland Herd Improvement (now HICO).

Currently he is the President of the Walter J Tuck Recreation Reserve Committee, managing six user groups.