Sam Mostyn Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Her Excellency The Honourable
Sam Mostyn
Office:28th Governor-General of Australia
Primeminister:Anthony Albanese
Term Start:1 July 2024
Predecessor:David Hurley
Birth Name:Samantha Joy Mostyn
Birth Date:13 September 1965
Birth Place:Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Spouse:Simeon Beckett SC
Children:1
Education:Australian National University (BA, LLB)

Samantha Joy Mostyn, (;[1] born 13 September 1965) is an Australian businesswoman and advocate serving as the 28th and current governor-general of Australia since July 2024.

Mostyn has been an outspoken advocate on climate change and gender equality; she served as the first female Australian Football League commissioner and was president of Chief Executive Women from 2021 to 2022. She was a board member of numerous companies and organisations, including Mirvac, Transurban, GO Foundation, the Climate Council, Virgin Australia, and the Sydney Swans. The Mostyn Medal, for "best and fairest" women in AFL Sydney, is named after her.

Early life and education

Samantha Joy Mostyn[2] was born on 13 September 1965[3] in Canberra,[4] the eldest of four sisters. One of her sisters has an intellectual disability, so the family was involved in the disability sector.[5] [6] Their father, William "Bill" Mostyn, was a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, and a colonel who served for almost 40 years in the Australian Army. As a major in the Royal Australian Signal Corps, he served in Headquarters Australian Force Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[7] [8] Although most of her early years were spent in Canberra, being the family of a military man meant moving around a lot, and included two years of Mostyn living in Adelaide with her grandmother while her father was in Vietnam.[9] She also lived in Melbourne, the United States, and Canada.[10] She played a lot of sport as a child, and loved to watch Australian rules football, although herself not having the opportunity to play.[9] She has recalled attending the ANZAC Dawn Service each year with her family.[11] [12] Mostyn attended Narrabundah College.[13] While earning her arts and law degree at Australian National University, she worked as a researcher for local chief magistrate Ron Cahill [9]

Career

Mostyn has held many non-executive roles in business and government, and has also been involved with advocacy organisations and issues that relate to climate change, gender equality, Indigenous reconciliation, and environmental sustainability.[14] Her work has included roles in business strategy, human resources, culture change, risk management, and community engagement.

Public sector

After leaving university, Mostyn trained as a solicitor while working part-time in the Magistrates Court of New South Wales and later as an associate to Michael Kirby in the New South Wales Court of Appeal.[15] She worked as a solicitor for Freehills and Gilbert + Tobin.

In 1992,[15] Mostyn joined the office of transport and communications minister Bob Collins as a senior policy adviser, specialising in intellectual property and also advising on the introduction of pay television to Australia. She subsequently moved to the office of communications and arts minister Michael Lee, before briefly joining the Seven Network as a broadcast policy manager. In 1995, Mostyn was recruited by prime minister Paul Keating to work in his office as a communications policy adviser. She was also appointed by Keating to the board of the organising committee for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she served until 1996.[15]

In 2022, Mostyn was appointed by the Albanese government as chair of its Women's Economic Equality Taskforce,[16] a post which she still holds .[17] In 2023, this taskforce recommended that paid parental leave should be extended to a year.

Private sector board and other roles

Mostyn joined telecommunications company Optus in 1996 after leaving Paul Keating's office.[15] As the company's director of government and corporate affairs, she was named "one of the most powerful women in the information technology industry" in 1998 by the Australian Financial Review. In the same year, Mostyn was recruited to join Cable & Wireless plc in London as global head of human resources.[15]

In 2000, Mostyn returned to Optus as director of human resources and corporate development. She moved to Insurance Australia Group in 2002 as group executive of culture and reputation.[18] She left IAG in 2008.[19]

In 2005, Mostyn was appointed to the AFL Commission as its first female member. She served as a commissioner until 2016 and was a key figure in the development of the Australian Football League's Respect and Responsibility Policy, as well as an advocate for the creation of the AFL Women's competition.[20] From 2017, she directed the Sydney Swans for six seasons. She continues to support the community work done by the GO Foundation, established and run by former footballers Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin.[21]

In 2010, Mostyn was appointed to the board of Transurban.[22] Also that year, she was appointed non-executive director of Citibank Australia,[19] and in 2015 she was appointed chair[23] of Citi Australia's consumer bank.[24]

In 2021, Mostyn was named by the Australian Financial Review as Australia's "most influential" company director, serving on boards with a combined market capitalisation of over $480 billion.[25] She was president of Chief Executive Women in 2021–2022.

Mostyn is on the board of property company Mirvac,[2] and chairs the boards of Aware Super, the Centre for Policy Development, ANROWS,[26] and Albert Music Group.[27]

Non-profit sector

Mostyn was appointed as a director of Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety (ANROWS) in April 2018,[28] and was appointed as chair on 3 March 2022, with her term set to end on 2 March 2026. ANROWS is an independent, not-for-profit research organisation which was established in 2013 by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments in a bid to conduct and encourage research that would help to end domestic violence in Australia.[29]

Mostyn has served on the boards of the Global Business & Sustainable Development Commission,[24] the Diversity Council of Australia, Reconciliation Australia, the Australia Council for the Arts, Beyond Blue (including as chair), the Foundation of Young Australians, Ausfilm, Australians Investing in Women, Australian Volunteers International,[17] the Sydney Theatre Company, and Carriageworks.[24] She was also National Mental Health Commissioner, and a past president of the Australian Council for International Development.[17] [24] She has also served as faculty on the The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme,[17] as a non-executive director and sustainability adviser.[30] The role involves leading residential seminars of groups of senior executives.[31]

Climate change work

Mostyn was one of the Australia 2020 Summit participants. She is a chair of the Climate Council and has written about bushfires and climate change for the Climate Council.[32] She is a member of the Climate Change Authority.

She was an inaugural board member of ClimateWorks Australia[24] [33] (now Climateworks Centre), an independent non-profit research centre focused on climate transition, co-founded in 2009 by the Myer Foundation and Monash University as part of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute.[34] [35] She remained on the board until 2019.[36]

She is also a founding supporter and chair of 1 Million Women, the women's climate action group.[24]

Governor-General

On 3 April 2024, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced that King Charles III had approved the appointment of Mostyn as the next governor-general of Australia, succeeding David Hurley, and that she would be sworn in on 1 July 2024.[37] [38] [39] She is the first governor-general to have been born in Canberra.

The announcement was generally welcomed: by other politicians, including by the leader of the federal Opposition, Peter Dutton;[40] Mostyn's colleagues; several women's advocacy organisations;[41] [42] the AFL;[21] the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia;[7] the president of the Law Society of New South Wales;[43] the incumbent governor-general, David Hurley,[44] and others.[42] Commentators such as Sky News Australia host Chris Kenny and former executive director of the libertarian think tank Institute of Public Affairs, John Roskam,[45] politician Pauline Hanson,[46] and conservative lobby group Advance Australia, criticised the appointment owing to her past activism,[7] which included having referred to Australia Day as "Invasion Day" in subsequently-deleted social media posts, support for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which was rejected in the 2023 referendum, and expressing support for Australia becoming a republic.[47] [48] ABC journalist Annabel Crabb observed that it was rare for such an appointment "to generate vicious denunciations on day one", arguing against News Corp journalist Janet Albrechtsen's denunciation of the appointment as being gender-based.[49]

She was sworn into office on 1 July 2024.[50] [51]

Media

Mostyn has regularly written for, and been quoted in, the media.[52] [53] She has advocated for prevention of domestic violence and for support of Indigenous Australian women. She was a panellist on the Q+A TV show in March 2021,[54] when audience members asked whether prime minister Scott Morrison's support for women "was genuine", following marches in early 2021. Mostyn commented that recommendations by Kate Jenkins, Sex Discrimination Commissioner, following the national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment, could be implemented and accepted.

Mostyn delivered a speech at the National Press Club, in November 2021,[55] as president of Chief Executive Women, on economic recovery and post-pandemic recovery, describing how Australia can make "the most of its available resources and talent" by investing in care, for paid parental leave, childhood education and superannuation reform, as well as ensuring employees in the care industry, such as teachers, childcare workers and nurses, are receiving well-paid salaries, and respect within the workplace. She described how the pandemic had "left women exhausted and deepened their inequality, particularly in the workplace" and that much of Australia's "luck" had been due to the undervalued work of women.[56] [57]

She has reported on corporate Australia and the gender diversity within the top 300 companies, with 5% of women CEOs in the S&P ASX200 companies.[58] She has also commented on how quotas for gender equity in the workplace work, and how quotas within the AFL have led to improvements in the AFL and the AFLW.[59] She has commented that a large number of woman leaders "sends a message to everybody that women are equal and improves overall culture". She has stated that, when a significant proportion of women are on boards, issues such as domestic violence policy and sexual harassment complaints are brought to attention.[60] She has also written in the Sydney Morning Herald about women and the economy.[61]

She commented that the election in 2022 would be a gendered issue, signing an open letter saying that widespread reform is needed to assist the return to the workplace for Australian women.[62]

Recognition

National honours

Honorary degrees

Honorary appointments

Other recognition

Personal life

Mostyn is married to barrister Simeon Beckett of Maurice Byers Chambers in Sydney, and has one daughter.[73]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: In Full: Samantha Mostyn sworn in as 28th governor-general of Australia ABC News. ABC News. YouTube. 1 July 2024. 11 July 2024.
  2. Web site: Mirvac Limited . . Key Principal: Samantha Joy Mostyn . 4 April 2024 . 4 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240404103055/https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.mirvac_limited.077b3817accbfe08b69e68679e3ad5d6.html . live .
  3. News: Birth Notice. Canberra Times (via Trove). 14 September 1965. 12 July 2024.
  4. News: Canberra-born Samantha Mostyn AO the new governor-general . 4 April 2024 . 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406025608/https://canberradaily.com.au/pm-announces-samantha-mostyn-ao-as-new-governor-general/. live. Canberra Daily. . 3 April 2024 . en-AU.
  5. Web site: Priestley . Angela . Humility, grace, intellect: Sam Mostyn is an inspired choice for governor-general . Women's Agenda . 3 April 2024 . 6 April 2024. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406095023/https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-blog/humility-grace-intellect-sam-mostyn-is-an-inspired-choice-for-governor-general/. live.
  6. Kurt Fearnley interviews Mostyn for One Plus One on ABC Television, 29 August 2020.
  7. Web site: Dougherty . Robert . Impartiality expected: Governor-General appointee facing early scrutiny . defenceconnect.com.au . 4 April 2024 . 6 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240406031109/https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/land/13891-impartiality-expected-governor-general-appointee-facing-early-scrutiny . live . 5 April 2024.
  8. Web site: Mostyn, William Downman. Vietnam War Nominal Roll. Department of Veterans' Affairs. 1 July 2024.
  9. News: Flanagan. Martin. 2017-02-10. Her mountain climbed, Sam Mostyn moved on from the AFL. registration. 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403014718/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/her-mountain-climbed-sam-mostyn-moved-on-from-the-afl-20170209-gu9939.html. live. 2021-11-26. The Age. en . She was only 50 but she'd had 10 years on the AFL Commission... She's on the board of the Swans... She's also part of the GO foundation set up by Adam Goodes and Michael O'Loughlin to help Indigenous youth. She does a host of other things while also being married to Simeon and having a 17-year-old daughter..
  10. Sam. Mostyn. Kylie. Kwong. Kylie Kwong. Sam Mostyn: "We have been wasting the resources of women". 24 November 2021. 2021-11-26. Gourmet Traveller. en. live. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406062325/https://www.gourmettraveller.com.au/dining-out/culture/sam-mostyn-19563/.
  11. Web site: Flanagan . Martin . 2017-02-10 . Her mountain climbed, Sam Mostyn moved on from the AFL . 2024-07-01 . The Age . en . 26 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211126231158/https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/her-mountain-climbed-sam-mostyn-moved-on-from-the-afl-20170209-gu9939.html . live .
  12. Web site: 2021 Australia Day Honours recipients . . 29 January 2021 . 3 April 2024. Sam Mostyn AO BA '86, LLB '89, HonLLD '18 For distinguished service to business and sustainability, and to the community, through seminal contributions to a range of organisations, and to women.. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406064315/https://www.anu.edu.au/alumni/awards/2021-australia-day-honours-recipients. live.
  13. News: Rolfe . John . 2024-08-16 . Sydney Power 100: Where the city's most powerful people went to school . subscription . 2024-08-17 . The Daily Telegraph.
  14. News: Distinguished CASS alumni recognised in Australia Day Honours . ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences . 4 February 2021 . Dr Sam Mostyn AO BA '86, LLB '89, HonLLD '18 For distinguished service to business and sustainability, and to the community, through seminal contributions to a range of organisations, and to women. . CASS Alumni Australia Day 2021 Honours . 4 April 2024. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406063632/https://cass.anu.edu.au/news/distinguished-cass-alumni-recognised-australia-day-honours-0. live.
  15. News: Bound for glory. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403084706/https://www.afr.com/women-of-influence/fifty-women-to-watch-19980209-kb384. 3 April 2024. subscription. live. Sam Mostyn, 32, Optus. James. Kirby. Australian Financial Review. 21 May 1999. 3 April 2024.
  16. News: Sam Mostyn to chair government Women's Economic Equality Taskforce. 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403093228/https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/sam-mostyn-to-chair-government-women-s-economic-equality-taskforce-20220831-p5bebk. live. subscription. Hannah. Wootton. . 31 August 2022. 3 April 2024.
  17. News: Campbell . Eleanor . Samantha Mostyn to become Australia's next Governor-General, Albanese announces . . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024. 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403080413/https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/samantha-mostyn-to-become-australias-next-governorgeneral-albanese-announces/news-story/3679c8395859203ac70d45c3e3672939. live.
  18. Mostyn . Samantha . Tandukar, Amita . A purpose-driven business . Newspaper . Australian Financial Review . 7 June 2007 . Samantha Mostyn... now group executive of culture and reputation at Insurance Australia Group... . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403080730/https://www.afr.com/women-of-influence/a-purpose-driven-business-20070607-kafwt . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024.
  19. News: https://web.archive.org/web/20240403093005/https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/citi-gains-and-loses-key-people-20110720-iu2cw. 3 April 2024. subscription. live. Citi gains and loses key people. Citibank has recruited high-profile businesswoman Samantha Mostyn.. John. Kehoe. Australian Financial Review. 20 July 2011. 3 April 2024.
  20. Web site: Sam Mostyn honoured. 2021-11-26. sydneyswans.com.au. en. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406062620/https://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/853618/sam-mostyn-honoured. live. 25 January 2021.
  21. Web site: AFL congratulates Sam Mostyn on her appointment as Governor-General . AFL . 3 April 2024 . 6 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240406062747/https://www.afl.com.au/news/1100219/afl-congratulates-sam-mostyn-on-her-appointment-as-governor-general . live. 3 April 2024.
  22. News: Sam Mostyn says one thing, Transurban does another. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403092823/https://www.afr.com/rear-window/sam-mostyn-says-one-thing-transurban-does-another-20200406-p54hj2. 3 April 2024. live. But two days later, Transurban – on whose board Mostyn has been perched since 2010.... subscription. Joe. Aston. 7 April 2020. 3 April 2024. Australian Financial Review.
  23. News: Sam Mostyn appointed chairman of Citi's retail bank. subscription. 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403081819/https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/mostyn-appointed-chair-of-citis-retail-bank-20151106-gksw3a. live. Jonathan. Shapiro. 10 November 2015. 2 April 2024. Australian Financial Review.
  24. Web site: Sam Mostyn AO . Australians Investing in Women (AIIW) . 20 September 2022 . 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403014203/https://www.aiiw.org.au/team-profiles/sam-mostyn/. live. 3 April 2024.
  25. News: High-profile exits bring new breed of directors to fore. subscription. 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403081700/https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/high-profile-exits-bring-new-breed-of-directors-to-fore-20210129-p56xyb. live. Australian Financial Review. 31 January 2021. Patrick. Durkin. 3 April 2024.
  26. Web site: ANROWS Board . ANROWS . 4 April 2024 . 4 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240404093349/https://www.anrows.org.au/about/anrows-board/ . live .
  27. News: Grattan . Michelle . Businesswoman and women's advocate Samantha Mostyn to be Australia's next governor-general . . 3 April 2024 . 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406100229/https://theconversation.com/businesswoman-and-womens-advocate-samantha-mostyn-to-be-australias-next-governor-general-227037. live. 6 April 2024.
  28. Web site: Sam Mostyn AO . ANROWS . 8 December 2022 . 4 April 2024 . 26 November 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211126225406/https://www.anrows.org.au/team/sam-mostyn/ . dead .
  29. Web site: Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety . Directory . 3 March 2022 . 11 April 2024 . 11 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240411074514/https://www.directory.gov.au/portfolios/social-services/department-social-services/australias-national-research-organisation-womens-safety . live .
  30. Web site: Sam Mostyn . Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) . 20 November 2014 . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403104445/https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/directory/sam-mostyn . live .
  31. Web site: Melbourne seminar . Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) . 21 April 2016 . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403105118/https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/executive-education/bsp/melbourne-seminar . live .
  32. News: 2020-02-20. Australian CEOs must rupture the political stagnation to lead the charge on climate action . Sam . Mostyn. 2021-11-26. The Guardian. en. 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403015838/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/20/australian-ceos-must-rupture-the-political-stagnation-to-lead-the-charge-on-climate-action . live.
  33. 24 May 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230524225152/https://www.climateworksaustralia.org/news/climateworks-board-members-honoured/ . dead . Climateworks board members honoured. 2021-11-27. ClimateWorks. en-US . Sam Mostyn AO . 27 January 2021 .
  34. Web site: Climateworks Centre submission on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure. 24 February 2023. Climateworks. 11 April 2024. 11 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240411004832/https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-04/c2022-314397-climateworks-centre.pdf. live.
  35. Web site: Home . Climateworks Centre . 18 December 2023 . 11 April 2024 . 11 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240411015605/https://www.climateworkscentre.org/our-story/ . live .
  36. Web site: Climateworks board members honoured . Climateworks Centre . 27 January 2021 . 11 April 2024 . 22 September 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230922224850/https://www.climateworkscentre.org/news/climateworks-board-members-honoured/ . live .
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  38. News: Anthony Albanese announces Samantha Mostyn as Australia's next governor-general . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403001439/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-03/samantha-mostyn-will-be-australias-next-governor-general/103661250 . 3 April 2024 . bot: unknown . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . ABC News . Tessa . Fleming .
  39. News: . Sam Mostyn announced as next governor general of Australia . . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403083908/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/apr/03/samantha-mostyn-sam-governor-general-australia . live . 3 April 2024.
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  41. News: 2024-04-03 . What to expect from the new governor-general, from those who know her . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403102122/https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/leaders/what-to-expect-from-the-new-governor-general-from-those-who-know-her-20240403-p5fh3p . live . 2024-04-03 . subscription . Sally . Patten . Wooton . Hannah . Samantha . Hutchinson . Australian Financial Review . en.
  42. News: Who is Samantha Mostyn and what will Australia's new governor-general do? . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403102308/https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/samantha-mostyn-appointed-as-australias-new-governor-general/zv1hb194s . 3 April 2024 . live . 2024-04-03 . . en.
  43. Web site: Samantha Mostyn appointed Governor-General . . 3 April 2024 . Francisco . Silva . 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406030549/https://lsj.com.au/articles/samantha-mostyn-appointed-governor-general/ . live . 6 April 2024.
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  46. News: 'Not in Australia's best interest': Pauline Hanson takes aim at appointment of Samantha Mostyn as Governor-General . . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403102637/https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/not-in-australias-best-interest-pauline-hanson-takes-aim-at-appointment-of-samantha-mostyn-as-governorgeneral/news-story/068ff4f323c67b6c5d65db5086a44419 . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . Patrick . Staveley. live.
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  55. Web site: Sam Mostyn AO of Chief Executive Women, on creating a vibrant post-pandemic Australia. National Press Club of Australia. YouTube. en. 2021-12-05. 24 November 2021. 5 December 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211205024829/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xSQxGQ1MM. live.
  56. Web site: 2021-11-24. The 'luck' Australia's had from uncelebrated and underpaid women is running out: Sam Mostyn's plea for change. 2021-11-26. Women's Agenda. en-AU. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406053331/https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/the-luck-australias-had-from-uncelebrated-and-underpaid-women-is-running-out-sam-mostyns-plea-for-change/. live. Angela. Priestly.
  57. 2021-11-25. Women suffering from 'the Great Exhaustion'. 2021-11-26. ABC Radio National Breakfast. en-AU. Karvelas, Patricia (presenter); Mostyn, Sam (guest), Penglilley, Victoria (producer). 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406054350/https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/women-suffering-from-the-great-exhaustion/13647632. live. Radio interview.
  58. Web site: 2021-09-07. Corporate Australia needs to get serious about diversity. subscription. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403082042/https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/corporate-australia-needs-to-get-serious-about-diversity-20210907-p58pl0. 3 April 2024. live. 2021-11-26. Australian Financial Review. en.
  59. News: 2020-08-27. 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403082303/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-27/first-female-afl-commissioner-sam-mostyn-on-one-plus-one/12585664. live. Sam Mostyn on becoming the first female AFL commissioner, receiving hate mail and why quotas work. en-AU. ABC News. 2021-11-26.
  60. News: 2021-09-08. Having more female CEOs and stronger laws could help stamp out workplace sexual harassment. en-AU. ABC News. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406025946/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-08/women-female-cew-workplace-sexual-harassment-bhp-diversity-metoo/100443744. live. Massim. Khadem. 2021-11-26.
  61. News: Mostyn. Sam. 2021-04-30. Investing in women will pay dividends for the whole economy. registration. 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403015640/https://www.smh.com.au/national/investing-in-women-will-pay-dividends-for-the-whole-economy-20210430-p57np5.html . live. 2021-11-28. The Sydney Morning Herald. en.
  62. Web site: McLaughlin. Chelsea. 2021-03-26. Last night, we watched a woman speak about Australia's reckoning. A man immediately interrupted her.. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406054922/https://www.mamamia.com.au/adam-creighton-q-and-a/. live. 2021-11-26. Mamamia. en-AU.
  63. Web site: Ms Samantha Joy Mostyn. 2021-11-27. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Australian Honours Search Facility. 25 January 2021. Announcement Event Australia Day 2021 Honours List. 26 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211126225401/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2007799. live.
  64. 3026416 . 10 June 2024 . Ms Samantha Joy Mostyn AO . Companion of the Order of Australia . 10 June 2024.
  65. Web site: Honorary Doctor of Laws recipients . ANU College of Law . 4 September 2023 . 2018 Sam Mostyn HonLLD . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403061008/https://law.anu.edu.au/about/honorary-doctor-laws-recipients . live .
  66. Web site: Understanding the Most Venerable Order of St John. St John South Australia. 24 August 2018. 12 December 2014. 13 March 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180313040917/https://www.stjohnsa.com.au/cms_resources/Understanding%20the%20Most%20Venerable%20Order%20of%20St%20John.pdf. live.
  67. 2015 Annual Report. AFL Sydney. 6. The Women's Division One medal was named for the first time in 2015 in honour of the first women's AFL Commissioner Sam Mostyn.... live. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406033330/https://websites.mygameday.app/get_file.cgi?id=35684840.
  68. Web site: 6 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240406033400/https://sydneyafl.com.au/mostyn-medal/. live. Mostyn Medal . AFL Sydney . 22 September 2023 . 3 April 2024.
  69. Investor Group on Climate Change . Net zero emissions, science-based targets and world first sovereign green bond part of winning initiatives in IGCC 2019 Climate Awards . 14 October 2019 . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240403082654/https://igcc.org.au/net-zero-emissions-science-based-targets-and-world-first-sovereign-green-bond-part-of-winning-initiatives-in-igcc-2019-climate-awards/. live . Sam Mostyn: For her long-term contribution to driving climate change and sustainable finance across the investment industry and corporate sector more broadly, especially through her advocacy in incorporating climate change as a core part of Director and Trustee responsibilities. . Outstanding Individual.
  70. Previous recipients include Ms Sam Mostyn AO (2020), Reconciliation Australia (2019), the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG (2018) and the Australian Red Cross (2017). . UN Day Honour. 6 April 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240406033028/https://landcareaustralia.org.au/project/landcare-australia-receives-2021-united-nations-day-honour/. live. Landcare Australia receives 2021 United Nations Day Honour . . 22 October 2021 . 3 April 2024.
  71. Sam Mostyn 2023 Grand Stirrer . 3 April 2024 . 3 April 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240403083020/https://ednaryan.net.au/recipients/sam-mostyn-2023-grand-stirrer/. live . ednaryan.net.au.
  72. Web site: Sam Mostyn AO - 2024 - Women & Leadership Australia. 2 May 2024. 2 May 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240502052647/https://www.wla.edu.au/award-winners/sam-mostyn-ao/. live.
  73. News: Who is Sam Mostyn, Australia's next Governor-General?. 3 April 2024. https://archive.today/20240403052402/https://thewest.com.au/politics/federal-politics/who-is-sam-mostyn-australias-next-governor-general-c-14177171%23. live. Adrian. Lowe. 3 April 2024. 3 April 2024. The West Australian. subscription.

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