Disability Services Commission Board
Dr Scott Hollier (Chairperson 25.07.2022 to present)
Dr Scott Hollier has two decades of digital access knowledge in corporate and academic areas. Scott’s current position is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder for Centre for Accessibility Australia, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to alleviating hardship caused by digital access issues for people with disability, their families and carers. Other roles include Invited Expert and Co-convenor for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Research Questions Task Force and he holds an academic position as Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University. Previous roles include work across the government, corporate and not-for-profit sectors.
Scott’s academic qualifications include a PhD in internet-related studies, focusing specifically on the ‘disability divide’ – addressing digital access issues for people who are blind or vision impaired. His other qualifications include a Master of Management and a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer Science. Scott has lived experience as a person who is legally blind resulting from a degenerative eye condition.
Ms Amanda Hunt (Deputy Chairperson 28.01.2025 to present)
Member 25.07.2022 to 28.01.2025
Amanda Hunt has worked in the disability sector for more than 25 years in a variety of positions from supporting people directly to leading organisations. This experience, including her own personal family experience has significantly increased her understanding of the issues that individuals with disability and their families face every day.
In an executive career spanning over two decades, Amanda has brought about positive change on individual, service and sector levels through passion and energy, innovation and determination. She has developed a wealth of experience in leadership, business development and growth, organisational transformation and community development.
Amanda is committed to building beneficial relationships and partnerships with individuals with lived experience, families and community, as well as corporate, government and political stakeholders, alongside whom she has worked to guide statewide system reform aimed at improving long term community wellbeing outcomes. In her second term, Amanda was re-appointed as the Deputy Chair of the DSC Board by the Minister for Disability Services.
Mr Christopher (Chris) Kent
Member 06.10.2023 to present
Chris has more than 20 years’ experience with a large listed professional services firm across Victoria, South Australia & Western Australia. This included more than a decade as the State Director in WA (2012 – 2023). In this role, Chris was able to establish the “Helping for Your Tomorrow” initiative which introduced paid volunteering across more than 1500 staff across Australia and New Zealand as well as setting up several key pillars to tackle underutilisation of minority groups in workforce participation in the region, including the disability pillar. As part of this initiative, Chris had been striving for Disability Confident Recruiter status for the organisation and in doing so, co-authored their “Guide to recruiting people with a disability”.
Chris’ daughter was born prematurely with a rare condition, and from an early age has been able to break down barriers in her community through her passion for genuine inclusion and increased participation for everybody in her network. Initially through her activities, Chris become involved in para-sport and is now an accredited athletics coach and is passionate about increasing overall participation and high- performance pathways for people with a disability in WA.
Chris is a former member of the Advisory Board of People with Disabilities WA (PWdWA) and was a Board Member of Leadership WA (2017-2025) and a regular contributor to their much lauded “Leadability” program. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for The Smith Family’s “Growing Careers Project”. His governance qualifications include the successful completion of the AICD’s Company Directors Course and being a Certified Chair of Advisory Boards. Chris sits on number of other boards in the private sector through his advisory business.
Chris’s drive to create a better life for his daughter and for all people with disability and their loved ones is addressed in the State Disability Strategy 2020-2030 and he is motivated to ensure these key actions are delivered in WA.
Ms Patricia (Trish) Sullivan
Member 06.10.2023 to present
Trish brings both lived experience and extensive leadership across health, mental health and disability to the Board. As the mother of an adult son with intellectual disability, autism and epilepsy, she has firsthand insight into the challenges and opportunities experienced by people with disability, their families and carers. This experience has shaped her longstanding commitment to advocacy, inclusion and improving outcomes for people with disability, particularly those with intellectual disability.
Throughout her career, Trish has held a range of clinical, senior management and executive leadership roles across metropolitan and regional Western Australia. Her experience spans health, mental health and system reform, providing her with a deep understanding of the barriers faced by people with disability across diverse communities and service settings.
Trish is also Chair of Developmental Disability WA, where she works with people with disability, families, service providers and government to influence policy and improve health and wellbeing outcomes.
Trish maintains a strong interest in emerging policy, research and best practice in disability, health and mental health. She is passionate about advancing inclusion, self-determination and genuine co-design to ensure people with disability can lead healthy, fulfilling and meaningful lives.
Mr Gary Hamley
Member 28.01.2025 to present
Mr Gary Hamley is now retired and has, for over 23 years, worked with the disability sector to advocate and support his sister-in-law who had an intellectual disability. He and his wife were her legal appointed guardians. Gary advocated strongly in order to keep his sister-in-law living with her friends in sheltered accommodation throughout service provider changes and other threats to separating the friends. Gary has managed her financial arrangements and reports to the Public Trustee. He also navigated the NDIS to ensure she received an appropriate package to live a quality life.
Gary has more than 50 years’ experience in the Western Australian Public Service and believes in improving the WA community through effective delivery of services. He developed an extensive understanding of accountability, governance, management, policy development and service delivery frameworks. Gary represents the Board on the Department of Communities Audit and Risk Committee.
During this time, while Gary worked with a Minister who uses a wheelchair, he became aware of the issues relating to accessibility for people with mobility restrictions. He also gained extensive background and understanding of Aboriginal cultural issues during his time as Executive Director, Office of Native Title.
Ms Kayla Ryan
Member 28.01.2025 to present
Ms Kayla Ryan is a Yamatji Wajarri woman who lives in the Goldfields region. Kayla has always felt the need to help her people and her community in closing the gap for health outcomes.
From 2021 to 2025, Kayla had worked as a NDIS Coordinator employed at Bega Garnbirringu Health Service, a local Aboriginal medical health service by being the cultural broker between the scheme and the Aboriginal and Torres strait islander community in her region and assisting them navigate through the already complexities of the NDIS.
Miss Ellie Moir (Chairperson of the Ministerial Advisory Council on Disability and member of the Disability Services Commission Board) 28.01.2025 to present
Miss Ellie Moir is a Nyoongar woman born in Esperance on Wadjuri Country, with family connections to Minang Noongar Country in the Great Southern of Western Australia.
Ellie's commitment to disability advocacy is grounded in both lived and professional experience. From the age of 12, she and her sister became primary carers for their mother following the onset of disability. At 17, Ellie was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, giving her personal experience navigating complex health and disability systems as both a carer and a person with disability. These experiences shaped her commitment to improving disability policy, service delivery and equitable access to support, particularly for Aboriginal people and those living in regional and remote communities.
Ellie is a registered Social Worker with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) and a Master of Social Work. She is currently undertaking a PhD exploring Aboriginal connection to Country as a culturally grounded approach to health and wellbeing.
Professionally, Ellie has worked across disability services, social work, research, policy and higher education. Her experience includes therapeutic and case management roles, NDIS support coordination, project management, healthcare research, university teaching and curriculum development. She has led Aboriginal consultation and co-design projects, contributed to policy and service reform, and worked collaboratively with Aboriginal communities, government and community organisations to improve culturally safe and inclusive systems.
Ellie is passionate about advancing Aboriginal self-determination, disability rights, community-led decision making and culturally responsive practice. She brings expertise in stakeholder engagement, policy development, participatory research, governance and strategic project delivery, alongside a strong commitment to ensuring that the voices of Aboriginal people and people with disability shape the policies and services that affect their lives.
Mr Benjamin (Ben) Aldridge
Member 03.09.2026 to present
Ben Aldridge is a Non-Executive Director and governance adviser based in regional Western Australia. He brings experience across disability employment, community banking, not-for-profit and member-based organisations, including periods of growth, transformation, financial pressure and organisational wind-down.
Ben’s pathway to the boardroom has not followed a traditional university or corporate executive route. It has been shaped by military service, acquiring a significant physical disability and building an organisation from the ground up. Through this work, Ben came to recognise that boards are where many of the decisions shaping services, systems and people’s lives are ultimately made. This led him to move from entrepreneurship into governance, where he believed he could contribute to more systemic and lasting change within the disability sector.
Ben is strongly committed to disability rights and meaningful inclusion, grounded in an understanding that good intentions alone do not create lasting outcomes. He believes these commitments must be supported by realistic governance and government systems, clear accountability and evidence of what is actually working. His approach focuses on moving beyond short-lived initiatives towards changes that are practical, sustainable and meaningful over the long term.
Ben has served as a Non-Executive Director of Forrest Personnel and Donnybrook Capel Districts Community Financial Services and as Chair of WA iSports. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an alumnus of Leadership WA. He brings to the Commission a practical regional perspective, lived experience of disability and a determination to ensure that decisions remain connected to the people and communities they affect.
Miss Ciara Galega
Member 03.09.2026 to present
Ciara Galega is an executive leader, human systems strategist and disability inclusion specialist with experience across governance, strategic communications, multicultural engagement and systems change in Australia and internationally.
As Founder and Executive Director of Daring Different Global Pty Ltd, Ciara works across government, institutional, community and international settings to strengthen inclusive governance, accessibility, stakeholder engagement and lived experience-informed decision-making. She is also the founder of Amani Circle, a culturally responsive, disability-inclusive initiative supporting African, culturally and linguistically diverse, migrant and refugee communities through peer connection, service navigation, wellbeing and community participation.
Ciara brings lived experience of physical disability, including as a wheelchair user, together with professional expertise in governance, policy consultation, strategic communications and stakeholder engagement. Her work is particularly focused on the intersection of disability, culture, migration and access to systems.
She serves on the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission Advisory Council and the Ministerial Multicultural Advisory Council in Western Australia, contributing to national and state-level discussions on disability, inclusion, safeguarding and multicultural participation.
Ciara also engages with government, institutional and community stakeholders internationally and is an experienced public speaker and facilitator on inclusive governance, lived experience leadership, accessibility and systems reform.
She brings to the Disability Services Commission Board a strong commitment to accountable decision-making, inclusive governance and ensuring that people with disability, including those from culturally diverse communities, are meaningfully represented in the policies, services and systems that affect their lives.
