# Lisa Breen

Chief People Officer

## Career chronology

- **Current as at cutoff: Liontown Limited** — Chief People Officer. [Board and management](<https://www.liontown.com/about/board-management/>) (Lisa Breen biography)

- **Prior to Liontown; exact full tenure and role dates may be incomplete: Austal; MMA Offshore** — People and human resources executive. [Executive Leadership Team Appointments](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250924/pdf/06pllx94k3s7gn.pdf>) (p.1, prior employers)

## Litigation and enforcement

### Austal union-entry dispute and case penalty [executive-lisa_union]

2021 event; 2023 appeal and 2024 case · documented · high materiality

The 2023 Full Federal Court judgment names Breen as a respondent and says it appeared she indicated that a union official’s proposed entry would be refused on the first of three occasions in 2021. The respondents disputed the union’s claim, and the union’s case was initially dismissed; the Full Court allowed its appeal and remitted it. A later Federal Court judgment reports an A$80,000 total penalty in the 2024 Austal case. The 2024 reasons and orders could not be opened; the precise payer and any personal order were not independently confirmed.

**Attribution:** Individual involvement documented. The appeal court states that it appeared Breen communicated the refusal. The later source confirms only a case-level penalty; the precise orders and payer are not independently established.

**Relevance:** Relevant to employee-relations leadership and legal-risk assessment.

[CEPU v Austal Ships \[2023\] FCAFC 180](<https://casechat.au/cases/au/communications-electrical-electronic-energy-information-postal-plumbing-and-allied-services-union-of-australia-v-austal-ships-pty-ltd>) (paras.1–5 and orders: parties, refusal and appeal); [TWU v Qantas penalty \[2025\] FCA 971](<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikisource/en/2/2a/Transport_Workers%27_Union_of_Australia_v_Qantas_Airways_Limited_%28Penalty%29_%282025%2C_FCA%29.pdf>) (para.282(12): 2024 Austal penalty amount)

## Suitability for the current role

### Relevant disclosed professional background [executive-lisa_fit]

Career through October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality

Liontown’s appointment release describes Austal people leadership from 2015–24 and later MMA Offshore executive HR management; the 2025 enterprise agreement bears her signature in that role. Analyst inference: the experience is relevant to the current role, subject to independent verification.

**Attribution:** Responsibility not applicable. Role fit is inferred from issuer-described experience, not proof of individual performance or credentials.

**Relevance:** Assess skills relevant to the role.

[Board and management](<https://www.liontown.com/about/board-management/>) (Lisa Breen biography); [Executive Leadership Team Appointments](<https://announcements.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20250924/pdf/06pllx94k3s7gn.pdf>) (p.1: 2025 appointment and past role); [MMA Offshore Vessel Operations and Officers enterprise agreement](<https://www.aimpe.asn.au/files/Agreements/MMA_Investigator_Officers_EA_2024.pdf>) (signed agreement p.68: MMA executive human resources role)

## Evidence gaps

- Prior-employer role dates, personal contribution and independently verified qualifications are incomplete.

- Targeted web searches are screening-level; complete regulator, court, sanctions and criminal records were not independently obtained.

- The original full 2024 penalty judgment timed out; precise personal orders and any further appeal were not independently confirmed. A later court judgment confirms the total case penalty.

- Topic searches reused a broad person/employer query; dedicated independent searches across all topics and material employers were not completed. Search log records source-specific findings and unsearched topics as gaps.

- The later judgment does not identify the penalty payer; no personal penalty is asserted. Original 2024 reasons and orders remain inaccessible.