Political expert and Griffith University scholar Professor Anne Tiernan has been appointed to the board of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, an honour that brings with it professional and personal confluence for the lauded academic.
Professor Tiernan, who is the Dean (Engagement) for Griffith Business School and was foundation Director of the university’s Policy Innovation Hub, has spent her career fostering knowledge and understanding of Australian governance and public policy, but her interest in such topics actually extends back to her childhood.
She recalls listening to AM and PM in the car with her father as a child, and remembers “as clear as anything” the day the Whitlam government fell, when she was seven. Unsurprisingly, Professor Tiernan has been enchanted by the “iconic” building of Old Parliament House since.
“I was always interested in politics and current affairs, and politics and current affairs was, growing up, Old Parliament House,”
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