Keep Australia Beautiful

The Keep Australia Beautiful (KAB) Association is a not-for-profit organisation best known for running the Australia's national Tidy Towns program.

KAB says it's mission is "to encourage the Australian community to protect and conserve the natural environment through individual actions".

KAB has branches in each state.

They endorse the beverage industry's Don't Waste Australia Do the Right Thing campaign. [1]

Directors

Accessed October 2007:

Board Members

• Don Chambers - Chairman - Representing Victoria
• Mel Hay - APM Senior Vice Chair - Representing Western Australia
• Ken Stewart - Junior Vice Chair - Representing Tasmania
• Hugh Springford - Treasurer - Representing New South Wales
• Geoff Finch - Representing Northern Territory
• John Harry - Representing South Australia
• Bruce Wallace - Representing Queensland
• Tanya Ha Writer -, presenter, environmental campaigner Sustainable living advocate
• Greg Charlesworth - Company Director, Member of past winner of Australian Tidy Towns Awards
• Rolfe Hartley - President of the Australian Institute of Engineers; Chair of the KAB ACT Committee.

Staff

• Scott Lyall - National Executive Officer
• Lara Shannon - National Publicity Manager
• Dick Olesinski - National Tidy Towns Judge

Keep Australia Beautiful Network

• Sandy Hansen - Acting CEO, NT (Heimo Schober appointed as CEO)
• Jennie Anderton - CEO, WA
• John Phillips - OAM Executive Director, SA
• Rob Loney - General Manager, TAS
• Wendy Jones - CEO, VIC
• Helen Leayr - Secretariat, KAB ACT
• Matthew Taylor - CEO, NSW
• Carole Miller - OAM CEO, QLD

Accessed August 2007:

• Chair - Barton Green, Director, Three Plus
• Secretary - Bruce Wallace, Manager Publicity and Partnerships, Tourism Queensland
• Treasurer - Scott Guse, Partner, KPMG
• Karen Hanna, Co-director, The Production Department
• Jacqueline Connolly, Managing Director, Titanium Enterprises
• Gary Fites, General Manager External Relations, RACQ
• John Northcott, Managing Director, MINT
• Alison Alexander, Food Consultant, Australian Fine Food Tours
• Joe Begley, Director of Corporate Communications, Department of Child Safety
• John Brannock, Director, Brannock & Associates

Funding

KAB has corporate sponsors from a wide range of industries and from government. Notable sponsors include:

• Hungry Jack's
• Bunnings hardware
• Beverage Industry Environment Council
• McDonald's
• Clean Up Australia
• Coca Cola
• Philip Morris
• Imperial Tobacco
• Wrigley

Contact details

Level 1, 83 Marion Street,
Harris Park NSW 2150
Phone: 02 9633 3380
Fax: 02 9633 4402
Web: http://www.kab.org.au/

See also

• Keep America Beautiful

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

• Mike Williamson - Former member of board

External links

• Sharon Beder, "The Corporate Assault on Democracy", The Australian Rationalist, Number 52, 2000