The Independent Reviewer

Terry Aulich

A former Senator and State Minister for Tasmania, Aulich was a significant force in introducing Australia’s first Privacy Act and anti-fraud legislation such as the bank 100 points system, the Tax File Number and the cash transfer system.

Growing up Tasmania, Aulich worked as a teacher before entering politics in 1976. In 1982 Aulich was appointed by the National Executive of the Australian Labor Party to be the State Secretary of the Tasmanian ALP and in 1984, stood for the Australian Senate.

In 1993 Aulich set up Aulich and Co, acting as strategic advisors to numerous corporate and not-for profit organisations such as IBM, AMCOR, Glaxo-Wellcome, the Biometrics Institute and providing polling and focus group services for its clients.

In 2012 he was part of the Australian Standards Organisation delegation to Paris which sets international standards in biometric usage for areas such as passport controls and identity protection. He was a guest speaker at conferences in both Paris and London, speaking about the challenges of privacy protection and new technologies. He is Chair of the Clubs NSW Code Authority, Chair of the Biometrics Institute’s Privacy Committee, and was Senior Vice President of Professions Australia until 2012 and was Chair of the AMSRO Privacy Compliance Committee until 2021.