Patrick McClure
Patrick Joseph McClure, AO has been a leader in the Third Sector in Australia for over 20 years. '[1]
Career
He was Chief Executive Officer of Mission Australia, a leading national organization in the Third Sector in Australia, from 1997-2006. During that period the organisation grew from a state based entity with annual revenue of $50 million to an international organisation with annual revenue exceeding $300 million, providing employment and training, housing, youth, family, children and aged care services to over 200,000 disadvantaged people. .[2]
Mission Australia was a major provider of employment and training services in the privatised Job Network placing 50,000 disadvantaged job seekers into jobs each year. In 2005 Mission Australia acquired a one third share in the United Kingdom company Working Links which provides employment and training services in the UK labour market. Through its Research and Social Policy Unit the organization was a leading advocate on social policy issues and innovative programs. In 2006 the Mission Australia Centre in Surry Hills, Sydney opened as a best practice model in providing integrated services for homeless people. Mission Australia won the inaugural Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership Award in 2000.[3][4]
He was Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (NSW/ACT) from 1992–96 during a period of major organization reform. He was a Member of the NSW Government Drought Assistance Committee which distributed $80 million in drought assistance to farming households and communities across NSW in 1995-96.[5]
McClure was CEO of Macquarie Capital Funds' Retirement Villages Group from 2006-8 which raised $850 million of institutional funds for investment in retirement villages in Australia and New Zealand. He was also a Non Executive Director of Metlifecare Pty Ltd in New Zealand (2006-8).[6]
He was an Ethics Fellow, Third Sector, at the Centre for Social Impact, University of New South Wales under the leadership of Dr Peter Shergold AC in 2009–10.[4] He was CEO of Aged and Community Services Australia in 2011.[7]
Currently McClure is Governance and Strategy Consultant and Chairperson of the Advisory Board of the Institute of Strategic Management (ISM), Sydney from 2009–14. He works with Gerard Hermens in reviewing the performance of Boards and Executive Teams especially in the Mutuals Sector. Boards using the Governance 360 process consider it the most effective board governance tool in the Mutual Sector. It assists them meet ASIC and APRA governance and regulatory requirements.[8]
McClure is an independent Non-Executive Director of the Kincare Group (2013–14, a leading, national commercial provider of tailored in-home care services for aged people. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.[9]
He is a Member of the Business Council of Australia Labour Market Expert Advisory Group chaired by Bill Scales, AO (2013–14). He also presents to national and international conferences and forums and writes articles on social policy issues.
He recently wrote a chapter on 'Welfare Reform' in the publication State of the Nation: Aspects of Australian Public Policy.[10]
In January 2014 he was appointed by the Hon Kevin Andrews, Minister for Social Services, as an Adviser to the Department of Social Services in its review of the welfare system in Australia (2014).[11].Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
McClure was also appointed Chairperson of the Australian Government's Reference Group on Welfare Reform in 1999–2000 which produced a key report for the Minister for Social Security, the Hon Jocelyn Newman outlining a blueprint for welfare reform titled 'Participation Support for a More Equitable Society' (2000), also known as the McClure Report.[12]
The journalist Michelle Grattan wrote about the final report in the Sydney Morning Herald of 17 August 2000: 'Mission Australia's Patrick McClure has scored a trifecta. Government, Labor and Democrats all had positive things to say about the inquiry's blueprint for welfare change ... The strength of the McClure report is that it is not driven by a narrow right or left ideology. Indeed if you ask whether the report comes from the Right or the Left in its approach, the answer is both.'[13]
In the 2001 Federal Budget the Howard Government committed $1.7 billion over 4 years for the implementation of its response entitled Australians Working Together.[14][15]
McClure was Deputy Chairperson of the Welfare to Work Consultative Forum, chaired by the Hon Kevin Andrews, Minister for Employment, Education and Workplace Relations which implemented key welfare to work initiatives in the labour market in the 2005 Federal Budget.[16]
McClure was also a Member of the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership Board from 1998–2007, chaired by the Hon John Howard OM, AC. He was a member of the Tax and Philanthropy Working Group chaired by David Gonski, AC which proposed legislation that enabled the establishment of Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) in Australia.[17]
He was appointed by the Howard Government as a Member of the Board for a New Tax System in 1999–2000 chaired by the current Australian Taxation Office Commissioner Chris Jordan, AO.
McClure was also Chairperson of the OECD-Local Employment and Economic Development Forum on Social Innovation based in Paris, France under the leadership of Sergio Arzeni and Antonella Noya (2004–6). Mission Australia in partnership with OECD-LEED organized an international forum "Social Innovation in the 21st Century: A Dialogue" in 2006 in Sydney, Australia.[18]
Honours
McClure was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2003 honours list for 'services to the community through the development of social capital policy initiatives, and in the delivery of programs addressing social justice, welfare support, health and employment generation issues.'[1]
He was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal in 2001.[19]
He was selected as an Australian Financial Review - Boss True Leader in 2005.
His life work was acknowledged in the Equity Trustee's EQT CEO Award for 'Lifetime Achievement' recognising 'leadership excellence in the non-profit sector' in 2002.[20]
He was a finalist in the Ernst and Young 'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' (2002).
He was also awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1989.[21]
Education and Early Career
McClure completed his secondary school education at Waverley College, Waverley, Sydney. In his final year of school (1967) he was Adjutant of the Waverley College Cadet Unit, College Oratory and Debating Champion, played in the Waverley College 1st XV and was awarded the JJ O'Brien Memorial Prize for Leadership, Study and Sport. He was also awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study Arts-Law at Sydney University.[22]
However he entered the Order of Franciscans and commenced eight years of study and pastoral experience to become a priest from 1968–75 at Yarra Theological Union in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1973 he was elected by the student body as inaugural President of the Yarra Theological Union Student Representative Council. In 1975 he was ordained a Franciscan priest and awarded a Diploma in Theology and Pastoral Studies from Yarra Theological Union, a member of the Melbourne College of Divinity, in Victoria (1975).[5] He worked as a priest in Perth, Western Australia.
After resigning from the priesthood, he completed a Bachelor of Social Work (Distinction) at Curtin University, Western Australia (1979–82) and later obtained a Master of Arts (Public Policy) at Murdoch University, Western Australia (1987-1991).[23]
McClure worked as a Senior Social Worker and Director, Migrant Services Unit in the Department of Social Security, Perth, Western Australia (1985–90). He was promoted and transferred to Sydney as an Area Manager, Social Work in the Department of Social Security. Then he was appointed CEO of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (NSW/ACT) from 1992–96. He was later appointed CEO of Mission Australia (1997-2006).[5]
McClure was voluntary Founder and Chairperson of Second Harvest (Australia) in Perth, Western Australia, a social enterprise with annual revenue of $1 million providing low cost food to over 3000 people each week on low income (1978–89). In 1989 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study social enterprises in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe in recognition of his work with Second Harvest (Australia) .[21]
He was also a Non Executive Director of Amnesty International (Australia) from 1978–88 with portfolio responsibility for refugees. McClure coordinated global campaigns to highlight human rights abuses and seek the release of prisoners of conscience. During this period the Board introduced major reforms as the organisation developed into a leading, national advocacy organisation.[24]
Early life
McClure was born on 18 March 1949 in Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand. He was one of seven children of Arthur and Ngaire McClure. His father was Managing Director of Warners Brothers Entertainment in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. He has written two books on the family history.
McClure completed his primary school education at St Michael's School, Remuera, Auckland and his early secondary school education at St Peter's College, Epsom, Auckland.[25]
His family migrated to Australia in 1963 and he completed his secondary school education at Waverley College, Waverley, Sydney.[22]
He has published a memoir entitled Seize the Day: From Priest to CEO.[2] The book was launched in April 2013 by the former Prime Minister of Australia, Hon John Howard OM AC.
McClure lives in Sydney, Australia.
References
- ^ a b http://who's who in Australia live 2012; Melbourne, Vic: Crown Content Pty Ltd
- ^ a b McClure, Patrick (2011), Seize the day : from priest to CEO (1st ed ed.), Longueville Books, ISBN 978-1-920681-77-7
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- ^ a b : Our people Academic Patrick McClure Ethics Fellow, NFP Sector, The Centre for Social Impact, accessed 4 June 2011
- ^ a b c http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/feb/2003
- ^ http://www.20071119 RVG announcement - Aveo live well
- ^ http://www.theage.com.au/national/agedcaresector-leader-warns-of-looming-challenges-20110420-1doxl.html
- ^ http://www.ism.nsw.edu.au/governance 360
- ^ http://www.companydirectors.com.au
- ^ Markwell, Don, (editor.); Thompson, Rachael, (editor.); Leeser, Julian, (editor.) (2013), State of the nation : aspects of Australian public policy, Ballan, Vic Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd, ISBN 978-1-922168-40-5
{{citation}}:|author1=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ http://www.the Australian.com.au/national affairs/welfare review 21/1/14
- ^ catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/533643
- ^ Michelle Grattan, (17 August 2000), Mutual obligation is here to stay let the challenge of change begin, Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, p. 4 accessed 21 November 2013
- ^ Welfare Reform - Reference Group Report, (Wednesday 29/03/00), Life Matters, ABC Radio National
- ^ Australia. Department of Family and Community Services (2001), Australians working together : helping people to move forward, Dept. of Family and Community Services, retrieved 21 November 2013
- ^ http://www.budget.gov.au/2005-06/overview/welfare
- ^ http://philanthropywiki.org.au
- ^ Forum on Social Innovation - LEED Program
- ^ its anhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll
- ^ http://www.awardsoffice.com.au
- ^ a b Churchill Memorial Trust website (Fellows by year: 1989)
- ^ a b http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waverley_College/notable alumni
- ^ Catholic Weekly, 23 February, 2003.
- ^ http://www.amnesty.org.au
- ^ List of people educated at St Peter's College, Auckland