Professor McCallum, a prominent labour law academic, was the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship in any field at any university in Australia or New Zealand.
The Minister for Disability Services, Peter Primrose, said that Professor McCallum was the only candidate elected on the first secret ballot, which indicated the high regard in which he is held by the international community.
“On behalf of the Government and the people of NSW I congratulate Professor McCallum on his latest achievement.”
Professor McCallum is the only Australian serving on a UN Treaty body.
He was elected to the Committee for a four year term and will continue to chair the Committee, a position to which he was unanimously elected a year ago, until the end of 2012.
Before becoming the foundation Blake Dawson Waldron Professor in Industrial Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney in 1993, Professor McCallum taught at York University in Ontario, at Duke University in North Carolina and at Monash University.
In July Professor McCallum was appointed interim Chair of the NSW Disability Council.
In 2006 he was made Officer in the Order of Australia for his services to tertiary education, for industrial relations advice to governments, for assistance to visually impaired persons and for social justice.
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