Pattie Lees
CEO, Treasurer
Pattie Lees AM is a published author, winner of the 2018 Mount Isa NAIDOC Lifetime Achievement Award; and recipient of the 2002 Zonta International Mount Isa Women of Achievement Award for her work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Pattie was a Ministerial appointment as Queensland Delegate to the National Women’s Safety Summit, Parliament House, Canberra 2021; a Ministerial appointment to the Queensland Indigenous Advisory Council for 3 years from 1996. In addition, she was a Ministerial appointment to the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence from 1998 to 2000 and of the Premier’s Task Force on Crime Prevention from 1997 to 2002. She was the National Aboriginal & Islanders Secretariat sole representative at the United Nations Commission of Indigenous Rights Working Session at Geneva, Switzerland in 1996, presenting a paper on Stolen Generations to the Forum. She was also an ATSIC representative at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York in 2000.
Pattie was an ATSIC Regional Councillor for six years, served on the Research & Ethics Advisory Committee (Mount Isa Health Service District) and has been actively involved in numerous community organisations. Pattie Lees was CEO of West Queensland Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Legal Aid for some 20 years until 2009. Additional career history includes Women’s Royal Australian Navy and the role of Counsellor – Stolen Generations Unit, Townsville Aboriginal & Islander Health Service.
