Robin Sullivan outlines her decision to join the public service in terms of a search for development, and the climate of reform. She discusses the additional skills she was able to bring to the role because she had real life experience of teaching.
Judy Spence outlines her early life growing up in Brisbane, attending Marshall Road Primary School in Holland Park West, then Yeronga High. After attending Mt Gravatt Teachers College she taught at Calen Secondary School (north Mackay) then at Woodridge High School for 3 years (while she completed a degree in Asian Studies from Griffith University), then 3 years at Beenleigh High School, had her first child, then taught for 4 years at Browns Plains High School before being elected to Queensland state parliament in 1989.
