Judges

Genevieve Jacobs AM is the CEO of Canberra's community foundation, Hands Across Canberra. A former journalist who spent over 30 years working in print, radio and digital media, she was a longtime ABC Canberra Mornings presenter and more recently the group editor for Region Media.

Genevieve has served on many ACT not-for-profit boards and is currently a director of Regional Development Australia Southern NSW and ACT, and the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture. She was also the inaugural co-chair of the ACT's Reconciliation Council and chaired the ACT Arts Minister's Advisory Council. She is the patron of CAPO, the ACT's arts support organisation.

In 2021, Genevieve was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her services to broadcasting and the community. She has an enduring interest in building and strengthening community engagement.

Máximo Gowland took up office as Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to Australia on 8 December 2021. He entered the Argentine Foreign Service in January 1997 after several years practising law in Buenos Aires. He has previously served as Deputy Consul General in Miami, USA (1999-2007), where among other activities he was in charge of Cultural Affairs, and also in the Political Section of the Argentine Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay (2011-2015). He is also currently Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji and to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea.

Whilst in Buenos Aires he has specialised in Antarctic affairs as a result of working and leading the Argentine Foreign Ministry’s Antarctic Directorate and his involvement at the Antarctic Treaty Consultive Meeting (ACTMs) and meetings of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). However, among his past cultural activities, his passion for film has also led to his involvement in several Argentine film festivals in Miami and Latin American Film Festivals in Australia, apart from an active intervention in several other cultural events such as art exhibitions, lectures, concerts and festivals, throughout his overseas postings.

Miriam Pickard is an Australian based performer, educator and ceremony-maker. In her practice she explores regenerative mythology as sources of stories, laws and patterns which contribute to individual and societal health. Miriam focuses on creating immersive and participatory mythic story events and designing ceremonial experiences marking beginnings, endings and transitions for individuals and groups.

Greg Battye is a retired Professor of Media and Communication who taught in Media Production and Communication programs at the Canberra College of Advanced Education [CCAE] and its successor, the University of Canberra [UC] from 1984 through to 2017. He was at various times Head of the Media Discipline, Head of the School of Creative Communication and, before semi-retiring, Deputy Dean of Arts and Design. Following retirement he became an Adjunct Professor in Media and Communication, and taught art in ten iterations of the ARRTS (Arts for Recovery, Resilience, Teamwork and Skills) Program, co-run by the Faculty of Arts and Design and the Department of Defence. He is the author of Photography, Narrative, Time: imaging our forensic imagination (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2014) and is in the process of publishing a Sherlock Holmes pastiche/homage novel.