Our Board

The ACARA Board was announced in May 2009 and held its first meeting on 21–22 May 2009. The ACARA Board has a Chair, Deputy Chair and 11 other members, representing the Australian Government and all education streams (independent, government and Catholic) across states and territories. 

 ACARA Board

Ms Belinda Robinson FAICD 
Chair

Ms Robinson has extensive experience as a company director and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She has served on a number of not-for-profit boards and advisory committees and has familiarity with being a company director of both listed and not-for-profit entities.

Ms Robinson is a non-executive director of four boards – three of which she chairs. She has had a distinguished executive career serving as CEO of a number of peak national representative bodies including more than seven years as chief executive of Universities Australia, the peak body representing Australia’s university sector. She has worked in a variety of senior and senior executive positions in state, local and federal governments, including eight years with the Department of the Prime Minister & Cabinet.

Appointment term commencement – 3 August 2018
Appointment term ending – 3 August 2021

Mr Hart is former president of the Australian Primary Principals Association (APPA), appointed to APPA in January 2011. He began his teaching career on Palm Island, Queensland, in 1975 and was appointed as a primary school principal in 1978. Over a thirty-year period, Mr Hart led small one-teacher schools through to large schools with over 700 students. He has also held the positions of the president of the Queensland Association of State School Principals and the Australian Government Primary Principals Association. Until his retirement on 31 December 2014 as APPA president, Mr Hart represented principals in government, Catholic and independent primary schools across Australia.