Rachel Ellyard

Helena Hughes

Helena was recently appointed a St Peter’s People’s Warden. She has been a parishioner here for about 25 years, since moving to Melbourne to head AusAID’s Victorian Office. Discovering St Peter’s was a joy, for its splendid liturgy and music and its warm and eclectic people. She has been mostly involved as a long-term volunteer in the Bookroom and in various aspects of hospitality.  

Helena’s working life centred on planning and delivery of Australia’s overseas development aid program. She was posted in several South East Asian countries, collaborating with governments, community organisations, UN agencies and the World Bank.  Highlights of her career were seeing how good aid can change lives at the local level, interacting with dedicated people and exploring countries’ languages and cultures.   

Michael Gronow

Michael and his family have been attending St Peters since the early 1990s, during +David Farrer’s time as Vicar.  Michael has also been a trustee of the Charitable Foundation for some years, and has previously served on Parish Council.  He has also been Secretary of the Melbourne Anglican Trusts Corporation, a director of the Melbourne Anglican Diocesan Corporation and a lay member of Archbishop in Council.  He has grown up children (Miranda and Christian, both of whom were baptised and confirmed at St Peters), and lives in North Fitzroy with his wife Sharon. 

Michael is a Melbourne based barrister.  He is also a Senior Fellow of the Melbourne Law School where he teaches Insolvency Law.  He is the author of McPherson’s Law of Company Liquidation, the joint author of Australian Bankruptcy Law and Practice and the joint editor of Australian Bankruptcy Cases (New Series).  He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of its Australian committee.