Brian Hayes (lawyer)

He is a former National Chairman of the Australia India Business Council, and established its South Australian chapter in 2004.[5] As National Chairman, he has chaired two Joint Business Council Meetings in Australia and India. Hayes first acted as a consultant advising the Government of South Australia on the state's relations with India in 2008 to develop bilateral trade and business between South Australia and India and to assist South Australian companies to export and import.[5] Since his appointment, his work in the role has included leading six business delegations with the South Australian Premier and two Australian Federal Government trade delegations to India.[12]

Members of the Liberal Party including Opposition leader Steven Marshall have criticised his ongoing appointment. Vincent Tarzia has described his remuneration as "outrageous" when compared to the average South Australian wage. In 2015, Hayes was receiving $120,000 annually to fulfill a part-time consultancy role.[12] In 2012, Hayes' remuneration was greater than that received by a member of the South Australian parliament.[13]

Hayes is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Australia India Institute,[1] Australia's only national centre for research and analysis on India.[14]

Hayes has been involved in planning review and reform processes in South Australia since the 1990s.[15] In 2012, Hayes interviewed Premier Jay Weatherill about future planning reform at an event hosted by the Planning Institute of Australia, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.[16] In February 2013 Hayes acted as Chair of South Australia's Expert Panel on Planning Reform and spokesperson for the panel[17][18][19] and had some input into the appointment of its membership.[8] He told ABC radio that the development legislation in South Australia was twenty years old and that a review was to be undertaken. He told journalist Ian Henschke that a revised planning system needs to be fair and meet the current expectations of communities.[8] Hayes wrote of changing expectations of planning in South Australia that "people are looking for a planning system that is easy to understand and apply, that values community input, that includes clear rules and straightforward processes that ensures the right balance between statewide issues and local needs, and is based upon the most up-to-date expert knowledge."[20] The Panel delivered its final report and recommendations in December 2014.

Hayes was a member of the board of the South Australian Tourism Commission from October 2011[21] until 2015.[22] His academic board memberships include the University of South Australia Law School Advisory Board and the Advocacy and Justice Unit of the University of Adelaide. He is also a board member of the Independent Gaming Corporation Ltd,[5] which was "established by the hotel and club industry to provide a secure, centralised computer monitoring facility for the management of gaming machines in hotels and clubs in South Australia."[23]

In 2018, Hayes was a co-producer of Hotel Mumbai,[24] Australian director Anthony Maras' dramatic reconstruction of the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai's Taj Mahal Hotel. Hayes, who is patron of the Colaba fishing village where the gunmen first arrived, was involved in background research for the movie.[25][26]

Hayes also served as a producer of the indie film Emotion is Dead directed by Pete Williams.[27] The movie details the story of a young talented skateboarder from a low socio-economic neighbourhood in South Australia who has grand ambitions to escape his working class background.

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