The 2018 Australia Day ambassador for the Manning is Maurie Stack OAM.
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Maurie Stack is the son of ER Stack who commenced legal practice in Wingham in 1931.
Maurie has practised as a lawyer in Taree since 1970 with his brothers Ray and Tim and is the chair of Stacks Law Group which provides services to the many offices of Stacks Law Firm throughout NSW and Queensland.
Maurie was a member of the Council of the Law Society of NSW for nine years from 1987 and was a member of numerous committees including the Personal Injury Committee which he chaired for many years.
Maurie was elected president of the Law Society of NSW in 1995.
Maurie has represented the legal profession of NSW on numerous committees including the Supreme Court Delay Reduction Committee, the District Court Rules Committee and the Transcover Review Committee whose recommendations led to the restoration of the right to sue for motor accident victims.
He also chaired for years the Common Law Rights Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
For five years from 1997, he was a Councillor of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration.
Prior to the Law Society, Maurie was an Alderman of the Greater Taree City Council for seven years from 1980 and served on numerous council committees.
He was a member of the committee for a local cultural centre for 15 years culminating in the obtaining of a $500,000 Bicentennial Grant in 1986 and successfully moving that the Council fund $1 million towards the building of the shell of the Manning Entertainment Centre (MEC).
Maurie then chaired the fundraising committee which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to outfit the MEC.
In 2008, he chaired the committee which raised $750,000 in community funding and grants to add a fly tower to the MEC.
Maurie has been a member of the board of Manning Hospital, inaugural chairman of the Manning Valley Tourist Association, president of Taree Apex Club, president of the Rotary Club of Taree on Manning, 2015/16 Governor of Rotary District 9650 and is the incoming District Chair of the Rotary Foundation.
In 2002, Maurie was awarded the OAM for services to the law, local government and the community.
He is the husband of Deidre, father of Louise, Fiona, Tammy and Ben and grandfather of Callum, Lucas and Hamish Webster, Louis and Jack Wilson and Julian, Toby and Edward Stack.
