Marion Lau OAM JP
RN Div 1; RM; Certificate in Gynaecology, Diploma in Nursing Administration; Bachelor in Health Services Administration (BHA)
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RDNS Director since 1996
Member of RDNS Board Committee: Clinical Governance
Marion has excelled as an aged care consultant, registered nurse and midwife and is also a mentor and business coach for the industry and small business.
Her vast experience includes Matron/Manager - Avenue Hospital, Windsor, Administrator and Advisor for the Commonwealth Department of Health & Aged Care; Justice of the Peace; Director - Management Consultants and Technology Services; Member - Ministerial Small Business Advisory Council; President - Chinese Health Foundation; President - Chinese Community Society of Victoria and Past Chair - Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria.
Marion was the first woman to be elected as Chair of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria – the Victorian Peak Body for Ethnic Specific Organisations, as well as the first woman President of the Chinese Community Society of Victoria.
She was awarded an Order of Australia in 1996 for her services to older Australians, as well as to the Chinese community. In recent years, she received the Centenary Medal for her services to multiculturalism and for her work as Chair of the Victorian Ethnic Communities Council.
Apart from her roles at RDNS, Marion has been Past Chair and is current Executive member – Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria (ECCV); President Elect 2009/2010 – Rotary Club of Elsternwick; President - Chinese Health Foundation of Australia; Director – Doutta Gala Aged Services; Member – Ministerial Small Business Advisory Council; Committee of Management – Small Business Mentoring Service; Member – Communications Alliance Consumer Council and Charter Member - Rotary Club of Elsternwick.