Mr. Trevor Walsh

Photograph: Trevor Walsh.
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Trevor Walsh, Executive Manager, Community Programs, Queensland Baptist Care.

After 35 years working in various Queensland Government departments, Trevor Walsh wondered if there was "life beyond government".

It turned out there was - and he found it as the Executive Manager of Community Programs at Queensland Baptist Care.

In his role at Baptist Care, Trevor is responsible for overseeing the organisation's 15 community service programs, including its counselling, disability, crisis accommodation and education services.

"Baptist Care provides a range of community programs.These include counselling services in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Beaudesert for children, young people and families with problems of abuse, domestic violence and relationship breakdowns," Trevor said.

"We also have specialised schools in Brisbane and Hervey Bay for teenagers who, because of their family or other circumstances, have not been able to continue their education at other schools," he said.

"These schools not only provide teenagers with education, but also support, accommodation, health services and assistance to find employment."

In addition to managing Baptist Care's community programs, Trevor is also responsible for overseeing around 100 staff, providing support to program managers, and building and maintaining the organisation's relationships with its funding partners from across government, business and the community.

Trevor admits that his role keeps him very busy.However, it is obvious that he relishes his work.

"It is especially self-motivating when you see the positive changes that you can help people make in their lives," he said.
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Trevor quickly progressed up the career ladder, moving to the Department of Children's Services and working in a range of administrative positions.

After leaving Children's Services, Trevor jokes that he "then went off to prison for 12 months".

Luckily, Trevor didn't actually go to prison - rather, he was employed as a senior clerk at Queensland Corrective Service's Boggo Road Gaol.

"Working at Boggo Road was probably the most challenging time in my career.I was responsible for confirming prisoners' discharges, interviewing prisoners to ensure they were the person charged and advising them of their rights of appeal," he said.

"There has a high flow of prisoners through the gaol, which meant the work managing the administration of the prison was always high-intensity."

Although his role involved high pressure and long hours, Trevor said he still enjoyed his time at Boggo Road.

"As a registered Justice of the Peace, a significant portion of my work involved attending to bail applications, and providing advice to prisoners and their families on legal issues."

"In most cases, prisoners were very appreciative of the advice I could provide, and I found it quite a positive experience being able to assist people at a particular crisis point in their life," he said.

After working at Boggo Road for a year, Trevor was offered the role of Executive Officer to the Director of the Department of Children's Services.Trevor said being offered the role by the Director was a "real compliment" and that the job was one of the highlights of his career.

After working in the Director's office for three years, Trevor took on a range of other management roles in the department, including financial controller, grants and resources officer, and manager of information services.

He was then invited to undertake the role of Manager of the Office of the Director-General, in the newly created Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs.

"Working in the Director-General's office was extremely exciting.You were at the cutting edge of knowing what government was about, and I really enjoyed having the capacity to assist government at that senior level," he said.

After 35 years in the Queensland Government, Trevor decided it was time for a change.

"I have been heavily involved in the Baptist Church my whole life, volunteering as a Sunday school teacher and serving on the board of my local church," Trevor said.
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As Trevor found, there was indeed life after government for him, and by all accounts, it sounds like life is good.

Trevor WalshExecutive Manager

That on 14 February 1990, Mr Coyne's solicitor, acting on his client's instruction, phoned Mr Trevor Walsh, DFSAIA Executive Officer to Ms Ruth Matchett, and told him not to destroy anything pertaining to Mr Coyne legal claim on relevant documents [ie (i) parts of the Heiner Inquiry transcripts relating to Mr Coyne; and (ii) the original complaints].
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Mr Walsh recorded this unequivocal notice of impending court proceedings conveyed in their phone conversation in his memorandum written on the same day: In part it said:
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That on 29 October 1996 DFSAIA public officials Messrs Donald A C Smith, Trevor Walsh and Gary Clarke (all facing possible criminal charges flowing out of the findings of the Morris/Howard Report) wrote to then Department of Families, Youth and Community Care (DFYCC) Director-General The Revd Allan C Male seeking an interview with ",an independent person" in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions so that ",some of the areas raised may well be able to be resolved very simply which may result in saving certain costs associated with an inquiry"; and that on 22 November 1996, a copy of that letter and a departmental memorandum prepared by Ms Carmel Finn, DFSAIA Director of the Information Services Division, commenting on the Morris/Howard Report findings, were sent to Mr Royce Miller QC, DPP, by Revd Male;
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That on 22 November 1996, then Department of Families, Youth and Community Care Director-General The Revd Allan Male forwarded (a) the letter from departmental officials Messrs Donald Smith, Trevor Walsh and Gary Clarke seeking a meeting with a DPP official; and (b) the memorandum from the Director of Information Services Division Ms Carmel Finn which, amongst other matters, revealed the existence of the Crown Solicitor's advice of 18 May 1990 which Messrs Morris QC and Howard described as the "smoking gun" [pp74-76] and were unable to find during their work; (See Points 54 & 86)