Dr Higgins is the Deputy Director (Research) at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, where he has responsibility for the Institute's research program. The Institute undertakes a wide range of research, evaluation and dissemination projects focusing on policy- and practice-relevant issues affecting families in Australia. He is a registered psychologist, and has been researching child abuse,family violence, sexuality and family functioning since 1993. He has extensive experience in managing and supervising research, and has led projects looking at child abuse and neglect, child protection,children in out-of-home care, child-safe organisations, Family Court processes for responding to allegations of child abuse, caring for a family member with a disability, welfare reform, jobless families, past adoption practices, and community development approaches to children at risk in Indigenous communities. He has a sound knowledge of state and territory policy contexts across Australia. He has considerable experience in evaluation methodology and frameworks across areas including child protection, out-of-home care, sexual assault, child care, parenting, care for family members with a disability, and family and community wellbeing.

Daryl also has experience in conducting qualitative research and program evaluations with Indigenous communities, as well as understanding and analysing and interpreting quantitative administrative data (such as child protection departmental statistics relating to Indigenous Australians). In particular, Daryl has led projects examining best practice in Indigenous out-of-home care, and a range of community development projects focusing on early childhood, young people, and education engagement / mentoring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. He is currently leading AIFS' contributions to the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse, a research dissemination unit, run in collaboration with the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, focused on identifying and communicating key findings from research evidence about what works to close the gap on Indigenous disadvantage in relation to the seven building blocks identified by the Council of Australian Governments - early childhood, schooling, health, employment, housing, community safety, and governance/leadership.

Helen Cunningham has worked in the sport and recreation industry for over nine years in both the UK and Australia and holds a joint honours degree in sociology and sport.

Helen commenced her career working in the disability sport sector in England and Western Australia after arriving in 2005. She joined the management of WA Sports Federation in 2008 with joint project and communications responsibilities. In 2012 Helen was appointed the manager of a state-wide strategy - Fair Safe Sport - to ensure sport and recreation is safe and fair for all.

The SBS authority on all things cycling, award-winning journalist Michael Tomalaris is the face of the Tour de France, having covered the event for SBS since 1996. In 2011 Michael delivered one of the biggest moments in sport to audiences across the country when Cadel Evans became the first Australian to win the Tour de France. Michael covered Cadel’s historic ride along the Champs-Élysées, and his three-week journey to that point, with the perfect mix of professionalism and emotion that the occasion demanded.

Michael’s contribution to the coverage of cycling was recognised in 2011 when he won the Australian Sports Commission Media Award for Best Coverage of Sport by an Individual (Broadcast Media).

With close to 20 years’ experience as a cycling journalist, Michael has reported on the world’s biggest cycling events including the Giro d’Italia, Vuelta a Espana and the Tour Down Under. He is the host of SBS’s weekly cycling program, Cycling Central, which delivers the latest two wheel action from around the world. On top of covering the busy world cycling calendar, Michael is a senior sports journalist and presenter for World News Australia.