Ms Tricia Malowney OAM is a disability and human rights advocate with extensive experience across disability rights and inclusion working in health, justice and family violence sectors. As a consultant to government and non-government agencies, she promotes human rights and the elimination of intersectional disadvantage for people with disabilities.
Ms Malowney has first-hand experience with disability, having had a mobility impairment brought about due to contracting polio in 1954.
She currently serves as:
- Chief Accessibility Advocate – Victorian Department of Transpor
- Member – Fire Rescue Victoria Strategic Advisory Council
- Member – Victorian NDIS Community Advisory Council
- Director and Board Member – Melba Services
- Member Disability Access Committee – Melbourne City Council.
Ms Malowney holds a Bachelor of Arts, and was awarded the 2018 Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) General Division. She is an inductee of the 2013 Victorian Honour Roll of Women and 2018 Victorian Life Time Achievement Honour Roll, and a 2016 National Lesley Hall Disability Award finalist.