Beth is a qualified social worker (Hons 1) who lives and works on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi/Kabi Kabi & Jinibara country. She has worked in violence prevention for 20 years, specifically in the areas of child sexual abuse and domestic and family violence. A career highlight was working at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, from its inception in 2013 to its conclusion in 2017, as a counsellor and lead policy writer.
As National Education Manager for the Daniel Morcombe Foundation, Beth leads national primary prevention projects to strengthen child safety education. She is also a sitting member of the Queensland Child Death Review Board, which recently completed the In Plain Sight report on early years system responses to child sexual abuse.