Annette Brownlie was elected as an IPB Council member in 2025, after serving as an IPB Board member for the 2022–2025 term.
She has been very actively involved in the peace movement for over 40 years. She participated in the People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND), a movement which developed during the last nuclear threat peak in early 1980, as well as in the climate movement in the early 1990’s-1995. She has further been a co-convener of Just Peace Qld from 2001-2015.