Luke Twyford
Principal Commissioner
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Luke joined the Commission as Chief Executive and Principal Commissioner in January 2022. Luke is an accomplished senior executive, with rich experience in the child and family sector.
Luke’s career spans more than 20 years across Commonwealth, New South Wales and Northern Territory governments in the areas of reform, research and evidence, integrity, audit, governance and complaints management.
Prior to joining the Commission , Luke worked for nine years with the Northern Territory Government, leading critical reform of the child protection system and its legal frameworks. This included legislating a charter of rights for children in care and leading reform in family support and out-of-home care programs to empower children and families and reduce abuse, neglect and youth crime. He was also responsible for monitoring the performance of the Child Safety Department and delivering projects to improve the systems designed to keep children in care safe.
Luke holds a Bachelor of Laws with Honors from the University of Wollongong. He has extensive experience providing evidence to courts, inquiries and commissions. He led the whole-of-government responses to two royal commissions, with his evidence on system reform and child voices provided to Royal Commission on the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory the most frequently quoted material in the final report.
Luke is a special advisor to QUT’s Australian Child Maltreatment Study, a pioneering research program into the scale and impact of child abuse and neglect in Australia. He was Chairperson of the Child and Youth Development Research Partnership, an initiative of leading research institute the Menzies School of Health Research, which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people.
Luke’s parents fostered a number of children throughout his childhood, with his own lived experience and those of his foster brothers and sisters profoundly shaping the perspective he brings to his work and his passion in advocating for the rights and wellbeing of children and young people.
Natalie Lewis
Commissioner
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Natalie Lewis is a Gamilaraay woman and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Commissioner.
Natalie is fiercely committed to progressing a transformational reform agenda to strengthen Queensland’s focus on children’s rights. Her passion for children’s rights is inspired by the experiences of children and young people disadvantaged by the systems designed to protect them, especially those in statutory child and youth justice systems.
Natalie has dedicated her career to improving life outcomes for First Nations Peoples across Australia and is deeply committed to addressing the systemic and structural issues that disproportionately affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families. She has led significant national reform across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child protection and family services sectors, playing an instrumental role in the implementation of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle in Australian child protection legislation. She is a strong advocate for protecting the right of First Nations People to exercise self-determination and to remain meaningfully connected to kin, culture and Country.
Natalie’s career spans more than 25 years in both Australia and the United States, working in frontline service delivery, program and policy development, and organisational leadership across Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and youth justice and child and family sectors.
Natalie is an adjunct research fellow at Griffith University, a member of the Australian Child Rights Task Force, and a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership Group for the successor plan to the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020.
She is also the former Chief Executive Officer of the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) and has held appointments on the Queensland First Children and Families Board, the Joint Ministerial Council for Closing the Gap, and the National Executive of SNAICC – National Voice for our Children.
Emma White
Chief Operating Officer
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Emma White joined the Queensland Family and Child Commission in June 2025 as our Chief Operating Officer.
She is a highly respected and collaborative senior leader with an unwavering commitment to improving outcomes for children and families.
Emma has a distinguished career in human services, starting as a frontline social worker in remote and rural areas and progressing to become CEO and Director-General for the child protection portfolios in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. As a senior executive, she has led whole-of-government reforms, delivered complex ICT and infrastructure programs, managed significant budgets and portfolios, and spearheaded important legislative reforms, including the implementation of the Working with Children Scheme in Western Australia.
Emma’s experience working across critical social policy areas of child protection, youth justice, domestic and family violence prevention, and housing has given her a deep understanding of service systems and the changes needed to improve the safety and wellbeing of children and families.
Emma’s expertise in operational delivery, strategic policy development, and values-led leadership will guide the Commission through our next phase of growth implementing Queensland’s Child Safe Organisations Act.
Anne Edwards
Executive Director - Operations
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Anne Edwards is the Executive Director Operations.
She has a background in research and policy in the human services, particularly in criminal justice and child safety. She has worked across a number of Queensland Government departments, largely in the Department of Justice where she led the Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, was part of the inaugural team at the Justice Reform Office, and established the First Nations Justice Office. Anne led the Research Team for the Queensland Child Protection Commission of Inquiry in 2012–13 and has since worked on various projects to see improvements in Queensland’s child safety framework.
At the Commission, Anne leads the implementation of the Child Safe Organisations Act 2024 and the review of Queensland’s system responses to child sexual abuse.
Amy Lamoin
Executive Director - Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Commissioner
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Amy Lamoin is the Executive Director of the Office of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Commissioner, joining the Commission in 2024.
Amy is an expert in social and human rights policy and is respected for her work in international aid and humanitarian response. She has expertise in child rights, child protection, refugee protection, and sexual and gender-based violence prevention. She also contributed significantly to our 2023 Child Rights Report, as a valued member of our Expert Review Panel. She has advocated for children here in Australia and abroad, leading strategic policy development for organisations including the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Queensland Human Rights Commission, ChildFund Australia and UNICEF.
Amy leads our work to advance the rights of children in Queensland, including developing a rights-based approach to policy across government, with a distinct focus on First Nations children and families; raising awareness of systemic issues that impact on children’s rights and advocating for effective solutions; and building a culture of accountability in Queensland for the rights of children, young people and families.
She holds a Master of Human Rights from the University of Sydney and a Postgraduate Diploma in Humanitarian Leadership from Deakin University.
Last updated
30 June 2025