Vince Taskunas

Vince Taskunas was appointed to the role of General Manager, Public Policy and Communications at the Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania Ltd in January 2008. He is the Club’s representative on the national public policy committee of the Australian Automobile Association, which collectively represents over 6 million motorists. Vince is also responsible for the RACT’s government relations and works on several Tasmanian Government stakeholder reference groups including the Tasmanian Road Safety Council. Vince acts as the Club’s public spokesman on a number of road safety and infrastructure issues, and is a regular contributor to the RACT’s member magazine Motor News Journeys.

Prior to the RACT, Vince worked as a media and political adviser to three Tasmanian Federal Senators in Canberra and Hobart for eight years, and in a family business in Tasmania for four years before that.

Vince graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in political science and English. He particularly liked studying nineteenth-century political thinkers like Kant, Fichte and Hegel; Elizabethan and Jacobean drama; and Theatre of the Absurd. He is a member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia and is the associate editor of Lithuanian Papers, an annual journal of Baltic issues produced at the University of Tasmania.

Vince loves singing, playing guitar, listening to all styles of music, watching the Wallabies and Essendon Football Club, fishing, elections and political systems, the theatre, digital photography, cooking at home, appreciating good Tasmanian wine, and time with his family.