Cassandra Wilkinson is an Australian author and president and co-founder of FBi Radio

FBi Radio

FBi is an independent, not-for-profit community radio station in Sydney, Australia. FBi places a heavy emphasis on local alternative music: it has a policy that at least 50 per cent of its music content is to be Australian, of which at least half comes from Sydney musicians.FBi began 'test...

. She is married to Australian politician Paul McLeay

Paul McLeay

Paul Edward McLeay , a former Australian politician, was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Heathcote for the Australian Labor Party between 2003 and 2011. In 2010, McLeay resigned his position as a Minister on 1 September 2010 after he admitted...

. She was the transport advisor to former New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally

Kristina Keneally

Kristina Kerscher Keneally MP, is an Australian politician and was the 42nd Premier of New South Wales. She was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and thus Premier in 2009, but went on to lose government to the Liberal/National Coalition at the March 2011 state election...

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Writing career

Wilkinson is the author of Don't Panic - Nearly Everything is Better Than You Think published by Pluto Press

Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a radical, progressive, independent publisher based in London. Pluto Press specialises in "progressive, critical perspectives in politics and the social sciences", and describes itself as "one of the world’s leading radical publishers". It has published authors such as Noam Chomsky,...

 in 2007. Her speech at the 2008 Battle of Ideas on internet censorship has been downloaded several thousand times and carries a five star You Tube rating. She has presented at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Sydney Writers' Festival

The Sydney Writers' Festival is an annual literary festival held in the Australian city of Sydney. The Festival's artistic director is Chip Rolley.-History:...

 and the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. She has written on Happiness Economics in Happiness [Spinney Press 2008] and is currently an opinion contributor to The Australian newspaper and occasional commentator for Sky.

Career

Wilkinson was a senior public servant and former senior political advisor to the New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 Treasurer and other Labor Ministers.

Wilkinson was a freight expert holding the position of Director, Rail and Freight Policy in the New South Wales Ministry of Transport. She was made redundant from this position in January 2009, following the New South Wales government decision to axe executive positions. She was a Director in the Economics practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu before returning to work in government until the defeat of the Labor government in March 2011. She currently works for Social Finance Pty Ltd.

In addition to being a founder and President of FBi FM she is a Director of Music NSW and former Vice President of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia and Director of Sydney City Farm.