Membership of Property Rights Australia is currently managed by an executive comprised of:
JIM WILLMOTT – Chairman
Jim Willmott is a long-term defender of the rights of regional communities.
Inspired by his love of rural Queensland, Jim has led many successful initiatives protecting the rights of farmers and their properties. He has played an active role in many organisations, standing up to government and commercial entities that ride rough shot over people’s livelihoods and property rights. Jim now leads Property Rights Australia (PRA), a grass roots organisation that supports local communities whose property rights are under threat and their voices are not being heard.
Jim joined PRA because he wanted to help protect peoples’ hard earned property rights. He believes in enduring private property rights are fundamental to the prosperity and sustainability of rural, regional, and urban communities across Australia. He is now part of an organisation that is standing up to defend and protect our properties now and for future generations.
DALE STILLER – Vice Chairman
Dale Stiller is a cattleman from southern inland Queensland who manages land that straddles the Fitzroy and the Condamine/Balonne watersheds of various land types from brigalow uplands, sustainable native timber and bluegrass floodplain. Mr Stiller strongly believes that blanket regulation overreach based on cherry picked flawed science, driven by remote political outcomes is highly detrimental to social cohesion, productivity and in some cases to the environment itself. It is highly desirable that landowners can again feel they are trusted with their local knowledge and in a cooperative approach there is an exchange of information from land managers and field based scientific study to ensure real, positive advancement. Mr Stiller, is a long-time board member, served as Chairperson for three years from 2015-2017 and after a break again returned to the board.
Joanne Rea – Treasurer
I have lived on a beef cattle property outside Rockhampton for over 40 years. In the past I was on the Council of The Cattleman’s Union for eight years and was a member of The Community Consultation Committee of the Rockhampton Hospital District for four years. I joined the Board of Property Rights Australia because I believe that landholders are being persecuted by government and have had to deal with the concept of Sovereign Risk in a way that is unprecedented in modern times in Australia.
It is clear that governments have no concept of the disillusionment suffered by those very few of the under 40’s generation who have continued on as small business owners in the food and fibre industries at a time when the world is predicted to face food shortages as one of its major challenges in the next ten years.
