Gail has lived in the Northern Territory for over 35 years including Alice Springs, Katherine, Jabiru and Darwin. Gail has vast experience in the field of Aged Care and Disability. Gail has worked as a Senior Advocate/Team Leader for the Seniors and Disability Rights Service (SDRS) for many years, which is part of Darwin Community Legal Service. Gail has also managed Alzheimer’s Australia (now Dementia Australia) during her tenure in Alice Springs.

Gail has an excellent understanding of the sector and includes visits to regional and remote centres providing aged, disability and NDIS advocacy support as part of her role. Having provided a caring role to her late husband, Gail has an excellent understanding of how challenging it can be to be a carer to your loved one. She looks forward to be able to offer her insight and knowledge to the Board of Carers NT.

Sandy is a retired Registered Nurse and is married with three children. Originally from Tasmania, Sandy and her husband Tony moved to the Territory for work in 2012. Sandy spent over three years working as a lecturer in Aged Care at Charles Darwin University CDU, spending most of her time delivering Aged Care training to various Indigenous communities in East Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands. She left CDU to become an Aged Care Assessor and her most recent position prior to retirement was in the role of Team Leader for the Aged Care Assessment Team (ACAT) in Darwin.

Prior to her move to Darwin, Sandy spent over 20 years working in Aged and Community Care including Mental Health respite, Dementia and Palliative care services. Her last role in Tasmania was Team Leader for Home and Community Care Services for North and Northwest Tasmania.

When she is not at work, Sandy spends time working in her garden, attending art workshops and volunteering for the Country Women’s Association CWA. Sandy and her husband have now retired to the Adelaide Hills.

Sandy has been a Board member with Carers NT for 8 years.

Martina Hazelbane is a proud Larrakia/Warai traditional owner from Darwin and Adelaide River in the Northern Territory.

Martina is a strong leader who prides herself on being able to work cross culturally to achieve outcomes in the most difficult of circumstances especially in the areas of social justice, human rights and Indigenous empowerment.

She is solution focused, believes in taking personal responsibility and sees the opportunity in the most difficult situations. She is the proud founder of the Indigenous Road Safety Academy providing culturally appropriate road rule education in language to Aboriginal people in remote communities across Australia.

Martina is also the Senior Custodian of her 100% Aboriginal owned consulting business Stapleton Indigenous Solutions (SIS) delivering business management solutions to build strong work culture through organisational leadership.

Martina’s previous experience as a strong social justice warrior and human rights advocate were formed through her leadership and management roles at the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) as both Practice Manager in their Darwin office and Office Manager in their Alice Springs office.

Martina led a team of 45 staff members who delivered criminal, civil, family law services, law and justice service as well as community legal education. These services were coordinated across remote, regional and urban areas of the Northern Territory.

In her management role at NAAJA, Martina was dedicated to making sure Aboriginal people had access to high quality culturally appropriate legal services. She earned the respect of her colleagues and clients for her professionalism and reliability and prided herself on her exceptional management, organisational, administrative and cross-cultural skills to adapt to any workplace.

Tony has resided in the Northern Territory for 9 years working as a remote Training Manager based predominantly in Arnhem Land.

Promoting Cultural awareness and providing training that leads to candidates taking on Leadership roles is something that Tony takes great pride in.

Tony relocated to the Northern Territory from South Australia with extensive Management experience in a commercial environment and sporting clubs. This has given him in-depth insight and understanding of the mechanics of Not For Profit organisations.

Having spent many years working with culturally diverse groups & vulnerable people, his understanding of the Community Services sector has increased and Tony is eager to support Carers NT to look for opportunities for growth & expansion of their service delivery throughout the Northern Territory.