Seminar topic: Indigenous Leadership Steve is a Kungarakany man from Darwin in the Northern Territory. Prior to 1995, Steve worked in urban, rural and remote Aboriginal communities in health and community development programs whilst working with the NT Government. In 1995 Steve was appointed by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) as their National Aboriginal Health Adviser. In 1997 Steve became the inaugural Chief Executive Officer for the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health organisation (NACCHO). In 1999, Steve joined the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care as an Assistant Secretary in the Office for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (OATSIH) where he managed the Social Health (including implementing and managing the Bringing The Home program), Substance Misuse, Men’s and Prison’s health, Executive Policy as well as the Research and Data programs. He is currently a member of the Board with Beyond Blue, a member of the Child Deaths Review Committee (NT), a member of the Indigenous Road Injury Project Advisory Committee and is the incoming Chair for the Expert Reference Group for the Sexual Assault Referral Centre Mobile Outreach Service in the NT. In 2008, Steve was inducted into the National Indigenous Sports Hall of Fame for his contribution to field hockey.