Julie Matheson

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Julie Matheson is a founding member of the Financial Planning Association (IAFP 1987) and one of the first registered Certified Financial Planners in Australia (1992). She was awarded the FPA Distinguished Service Award (2016) for exceptional contribution to the profession and in the same year received the WA Local Government Merit Award for volunteer service to the community through the local government of Subiaco.

Matheson's formative years were in the Pilbara mining town of Port Hedland where she was born to parents Colin and Cecily Matheson and is the eldest of six children. Colin arrived in Port Hedland in the early 1960s as a postal clerk and brought his love for football to many towns in the Pilbara including Port Hedland, Marble Bar, Goldsworthy, Shay Gap, Finucane Island and South Hedland forming the De Grey Football League in 1969. He was elected Councillor to the Shire of Port Hedland in 1971 and Port Hedland got its first grassed oval at the Port Hedland Race Track.

After leaving Port Hedland in the mid 1980s, Matheson started her career in financial planning and by the 1990s she had her own AFS Licence providing financial services to business professionals and retirees. From 2006 to 2020, Matheson has been elected four times to the Board of the Financial Planning Association by connecting and listening to members around Australia.

During her business career as a financial planner and AFS Licensee, Matheson completed a double major degree at UWA in Political Science and International Relations, and History and then went into local Government where she was elected to Subiaco Council in 2011.

As a Councillor, Matheson took part in the campaign to Scrap the DAP, made changes to local government meetings so they were heard in public and was the first WA woman to register a political party in WA and Canberra, Western Australia Party.

In 2019, Matheson stepped down from Subiaco Council to appeal the Local Government Standards Panel's decision to uphold a complaint against her that she used her position to gain an advantage by writing to the Post Newspaper on the "paranoid" activities of Subiaco Council. Matheson won her appeal and the council was forced to pay legal costs in 2020.

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