 Haire was also a member of the advisory board of the National Institute of Law, Ethics and Public Affairs (later the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance), and was a member and chairperson of the Griffith Asia Pacific Council.From 2010 to 2011 he was a member of the panel appointed by the Government of Victoria to assess the application of the Melbourne College of Divinity (MCD) to become a specialist university.It subsequently became the University of Divinity.