Our Team

Board of Directors and Staff

Paul Hanrahan – Executive Director

Paul has been married 40 years, has 5 children, 4 of whom are married, 12 grandchildren with 1 more due later this year and has been Executive Director of FLI for nearly15 years. Paul has also been the Sydney coordinator of the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants for 30+ years. Paul is a veteran Australian pro-lifer. He has tirelessly taken the message of the dignity of life to the streets of Sydney for over 31 years, especially through his peaceful vigils outside abortion mills with the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, pouring all of his energies into the cause for life, which is becoming more urgent than ever in Australia. He has travelled around Australia helping others establish Helpers’ prayer groups outside abortion clinics. This usually entails meetings with Police and Local Council officials, often with a lawyer and running seminars and Q and A sessions.

As Executive Director of Family Life International (Australia) Ltd. Paul has run multi-stream conferences with a variety of overseas and local speakers covering topics spanning the range of issues encompassed by the organisations constitution; Abortion, Contraception, Euthanasia, Same sex attraction and same sex marriage, gender dysphoria, modesty and chastity, issues related to the Catholic faith including liturgy, freemasonry, so called “PrideMasses” and other sacrilegious actions, the moral issues regarding the use of aborted foetal cell tissue in research and development etc. as well as Catholic action in bringing the Gospel of Life to a hostile world.

Paul also has many years experience in politics previously as an active member of the Liberal Party and spent 27 years working as a financial advisor and running his own business while he and his wife homeschooled their children. He has a depth of experience in meeting and negotiating with people across the social spectrum including with Prime Ministers, Premiers and other members of Parliament, with Cardinals and Bishops and business leaders and academics.

Michael Brearley – Chairman of the Board

Michael has been married 41 years, has 7 children and 20th grandchild on the way. Michael volunteers for a number of catholic and community organisations, and has been involved in pro-life activities since his youth.

Michael grew up in western Sydney, and now resides in the Southern Highlands region of NSW. Michael is a Civil Engineer and was senior officer in Local Government for many years. He now operates a successful civil engineering and management company.

Matthew Murphy – Director

Matt is married and has four adult children. His work background is in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) and later in software development within a telecommunications department.
He has long had an interest in philosophy and languages and is keen to promote good principles concerning marriage and family.
After retiring he has been doing research to support FLI’s work, and joined the board of directors of FLI in 2024.