Stephen

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 Stephen is married to Carol and between them they have seven children that were all born in the 1980's; along with the seven kids they have three grandsons.Stephen Hall is the Executive Director of the Australian Council On Smoking and Health (ACOSH); ACOSH is a tobacco control organisation.Immediately before joining ACOSH Stephen had been doing part time work as the WA Co-ordinator for Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR) and project managing Sorry Day in 2003 for the WA Bringing Them Home Committee. Stephen was also reviewing some of the services of Anglicare (WA) during this period. Stephen Hall was the Director of the Intellectual Disability Rights Service (IDRS) in Sydney NSW (September 2001 to October 2002). IDRS is a specialist community legal service for people with an intellectual disability. Prior to this Stephen was the Manager of Sussex Street Community Law Service in Western Australia for over five years. Before working at Sussex Street Stephen was the Executive Officer of the Anglican Social Responsibilities Commission in Western Australia for five years, working on a range of human rights and social justice issues. Prior to that Stephen worked with young people for more than a decade. During all of 1999 and 2000 Stephen presented a specialist blues radio show on 101.3 YORK FM, in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. It was a small station with a huge geographical area of lots of small towns and communities as well as countless millions of sheep. During that time he built up regular blues audience in the Sunday afternoon timeslot. For all of 2001 & 2002 Stephen was doing a guest spot on ABC Radio nationally once a month. This gave him an opportunity to be very opinionated on a range of subjects that could be described as the interface between faith, society and the world around it. It included views on matters of religion, politics, social ethics, social justice, human rights and popular culture. For over twelve months in Sydney Stephen has also presented a weekly specialist blues programme called "Red House Blues"on 2NSB "Rythm & Jazz". His major observation after arrival was that "Sydney has millions of people rather than millions of sheep!" Stephen returned to WA towards the end of 2002; from the middle of 2003 till mid 2006 he presented "Morning Magazine" on RTR 92.1 in Perth on Monday mornings from nine till noon. Morning Mag is a mix of music and interviews. Stephen had a wide range invited guests; the interviews tend to be round issues of politics, the arts, human rights, social ethics and they usually have a different emphasis to mainstream media. Stephen continues to do occasional interviews for Morning Magazine.Not forgetting the blues RTR has a weekly blues programme called "Spoonful of Blues" on Monday nights from eight till ten. Stephen is a regular presenter of this programme along with three other blues aficionados. If you are not in Perth you can listen to RTR via the net on (rtrfm.com.au)Stephen is the convenor of ANTaR(WA) and active in a few other areas, including looking at the early history of the Anglican Church and Aboriginal children in WA (see other blog).He is an Australian Rules enthusiast, a supporter of Collingwood in the AFL and the mighty East Perth in the WAFL.