Jon Rouse → Trial stakeholder advisory board
Chair / member appointment role
2024–25
Operator's published description says the chair Jon Rouse appointed members. Exact individual appointment dates and compensation were not established.
Stakeholder challenge and feedback channel within commissioned technical research
Trial stakeholder advisory board
The stakeholder advisory board supported Australia's contractor-run 2024–25 age-assurance trial. The operator identifies Jon Rouse as chair with a role in appointing members, including listed adviser Melinda Tankard Reist. It was an advisory body for the trial, rather than a statutory regulator.
Background
Contractor trial stakeholder board; not a statutory regulator. Live roster does not establish an ongoing 2026 mandate.
Challenge and access
March minutes record concerns about sampling, safeguarding and circumvention, with follow-up actions. Their cover and internal meeting dates conflict, so the precise March event day remains unresolved. July minutes say the board had draft parts A/B/K while vendors received their own extracts and detailed vendor material remained under legal review. Those records do not establish an ongoing 2026 mandate or that every proposed follow-up was completed.
What the records show
Melinda Tankard Reist → Trial stakeholder advisory board
Listed stakeholder adviser
2024–25
Operator lists Tankard Reist as a board member. Appointment does not establish regulatory powers or that the payment campaign caused selection.
Trial stakeholder advisory board → Australian age-assurance trial
Stakeholder advice
2024–25
Stakeholder advisory board supported the trial. It was not a statutory regulator and no ongoing 2026 mandate is inferred from the live roster.
Trial stakeholder advisory board → Australian age-assurance trial
recorded objections on sampling, safeguarding and circumvention
Cover March13; meeting-header February date conflicts with DIGI's March14 reference. Exact event day unresolved.
March minutes preserve substantive challenge and assigned follow-up actions.
Australian age-assurance trial → Trial stakeholder advisory board
reported withholding detailed vendor sections during legal review
Access described July8,2025; vendor responses requested by July18.
SAB had A/B/K while vendors had their own extracts; identified review windows need draft/redline reconciliation.
Further reading
Australia trial: objections, revisions and review authority ↗
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5 relationshipsTrial stakeholder advisory board → Stakeholder advice → Australian age-assurance trial
2024–25
Stakeholder advisory board supported the trial. It was not a statutory regulator and no ongoing 2026 mandate is inferred from the live roster.
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Jon Rouse → Chair / member appointment role → Trial stakeholder advisory board
2024–25
Operator's published description says the chair Jon Rouse appointed members. Exact individual appointment dates and compensation were not established.
Read the original source 1
Melinda Tankard Reist → Listed stakeholder adviser → Trial stakeholder advisory board
2024–25
Operator lists Tankard Reist as a board member. Appointment does not establish regulatory powers or that the payment campaign caused selection.
Read the original source 1
Trial stakeholder advisory board → recorded objections on sampling, safeguarding and circumvention → Australian age-assurance trial
Cover March13; meeting-header February date conflicts with DIGI's March14 reference. Exact event day unresolved.
March minutes preserve substantive challenge and assigned follow-up actions.
Read the original source 1
Australian age-assurance trial → reported withholding detailed vendor sections during legal review → Trial stakeholder advisory board
Access described July8,2025; vendor responses requested by July18.
Reported by the cited source
SAB had A/B/K while vendors had their own extracts; identified review windows need draft/redline reconciliation.