Michael Newman
Deputy CEO
Michael is a Galari Gibir (Lachlan River man) of the Wiradjuri Nation, the people of the Three Rivers. Michael’s family is from Condobolin but he was born in Orange and enjoys familial and cultural links to the Central West, Capital Country and Riverina-Murray areas of New South Wales.
Michael was exposed to Aboriginal self-determination and governance from his younger teens, being a part of the first Young Aboriginal People’s Regional Roundtable (YAPRR); and since then, over 13 years, he has built a career in the New South Wales Public Service, working with Education, Communities and Justice, NSW Police Force, Aboriginal Affairs, and TAFE NSW, before transitioning to the community controlled sector.
For the past four years, Michael was the chief operations officer with Orange Aboriginal Medical Service (OAMS) where his main portfolios were the divisions of Diversified Services and Corporate Business Partners, which enabled the organisation’s growth in funding, workforce, and services delivered to community.
Michael is currently deputy chair and long-serving director of Orange Local Aboriginal Land Council (OLALC); sits on the TAFE NSW Western Aboriginal Advisory Committee, Ministerial Aboriginal Partnership Group (Department of Communities and Justice), and the Aboriginal-led Commissioning Steering Committee (AbSec); and is a non-executive director of Western Health Alliance Limited (WHAL) trading as Western Primary Health Network (PHN).
