Hearings and Witnesses

 

Tuesday 12 February 2008 Jubilee Room 9:00am – 5:30pm

Inquiry
Website: Public
Hearing
   Link to Transcript
12 February 2008
(562 KB PDF) 

9:00 am – Department of Aboriginal Affairs

  • JODY BROUN, Director General, Department of
    Aboriginal Affairs
  • KERRY PEARSE, Executive Director—Community and
    Programs, Department of Aboriginal Affairs

10:45 am – NSW Health

  • Professor DEBORA MARGARET PICONE, Director
    General, NSW Health
  • Dr RICHARD JOHN MATTHEWS, Deputy Director
    General, NSW Health
  • Dr DENISE ROBINSON, Chief Health Officer and
    Deputy Director General Population Health, NSW Health

12:00 pm – NSW Housing
and Department of Ageing, Disability and
Home Care

  • DEBORAH BRILL, Manager Commonwealth
    Relations, NSW Housing,
  • IVAN ALEXANDER SIMON, Director Aboriginal
    Service Improvement, NSW Housing,
  • MICHAEL ALLEN, Director General, NSW Housing,
  • BRENDAN O’REILLY, Director General, Department
    of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
  • YVONNE PAULINE WELDON, Manager Aboriginal
    Policy, Department of Ageing, Disability and Home Care
  • CAROL MILLS, Deputy Director General, Department
    of Ageing, Disability and Home Care

2:15 pm – Department of Juvenile Justice, Attorney General’s
Department
and Department of
Corrective Services

  • JENNIFER MASON, Director General, Department of
    Juvenile Justice
  • PETER JAMES MUIR, Deputy Director General
    (Operations), Department of Juvenile Justice,
  • JOE HEDGER, Manager, Aboriginal Services,
    Department of Juvenile Justice
  • BRENDAN THOMAS, Assistant Director General,
    Attorney General’s Department
  • PAUL NEWMAN, Director, Aboriginal Support and
    Planning, Department of Corrective Services
  • LUKE GRANT, Assistant Commissioner, Department
    of Corrective Services

3:45 pm – New South Wales Police Force

  • ANDREW SCIPIONE, Commissioner, New South Wales Police Force
  • RODNEY SMITH, Commander, Policy and Programs, New South Wales
    Police Force
  • STEPHEN BRADSHAW, Assistant Commissioner, New South Wales
    Police Force
  • PETER LALOR, Manager, Aboriginal Coordination
    Team, New South Wales
    Police Force

4:30 pm – Department of Community Services and Department of
Education and Training

  • CARMEN PARTER, Director Aboriginal Services,
    Department of Community Services
  • MICHAEL COUTTS-TROTTER, Director General,
    Department of Education and Training
  • ROBYN McKERIHAN, General Manager Access and
    Equity, Department of Education and Training
  • ELIZABETH McGREGOR, Institute Director, TAFE NSW
    North Coast Institute
  • JOSÉE GRISARD, Deputy Director General Corporate
    Services, Department of Community Services
  • ANNE-MAREE SABELLICO, Acting Executive Director
    Operations Development, Department of Community Services
  • MICHELE HALL, Relieving Director Aboriginal
    Education and Training, Department of Education and Training

 

Wednesday 13 February 2008 Jubilee Room from 9:00 am

Inquiry
Website: Public
Hearing
   Link to Transcript
13 February 2008
(379 KB PDF) 

11:15 – National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)

  • DR SOPHIE COUZOS, Public Health Officer,
    National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)

12:15 – Aboriginal Legal Services and Aboriginal
Justice Advisory Council

  • TREVOR CHARLES CHRISTIAN, Chief Executive
    Officer, Aboriginal Legal Services ACT/NSW
  • JOHN McKENZIE, Aboriginal Legal Service
  • TERRY CHENERY, Executive Officer, Aboriginal
    Justice Advisory Council

14:15 – Tranby Aboriginal College and Aboriginal Education Consultative Group

  • MAURICE SHIPP, Director of Operations, Tranby Aboriginal College
  • CINDY BERWICK, Vice-President, Aboriginal
    Education Consultative Group
  • LINDON PAUL COOMBES, Executive Director, Tranby Aboriginal College
  • CARLO SVAGELLI, President, Aboriginal Education
    Consultative Group

15:30 – New South Wales Aboriginal Housing Office (see also 14th Feb 10:30)

  • RUSSELL TAYLOR, Chief Executive Officer,
    New South Wales Aboriginal
    Housing Office
  • DAVID LEE, Board and Ministerial Liaison
    Officer, New South Wales
    Aboriginal Housing Office

16:30 – Aboriginal Employment Strategy

  • RICHARD LUCAS ESTENS, Chairman, Aboriginal
    Employment Strategy
  • DANIEL JOHN LESTER, Chief Executive Officer,
    Aboriginal Employment Strategy

 

Thursday 14 February 2008 Jubilee Room from 9:00 am

Inquiry
Website: Public
Hearing
   Link to Transcript
14 February Morning 2008
(189 KB
PDF) 

09:00 – New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

  • DONALD JAMES WEATHERBURN, Director, New South Wales
    Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research

09:45 – Australian Bureau of Statistics

  • PETER DAMCEVSKI, Director, Statistical
    Coordination, Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • CHARMAINE SMITH, Indigenous Engagement Manager,
    Australian Bureau of Statistics

10:30 – Aboriginal Housing Office (see also 13th Feb 15:30)

  • DAVID LEE, Board and Ministerial Liaison
    Officer, New South Wales
    Aboriginal Housing Office
  • REVEREND THOMAS SLOCKEE, Chairman, New South Wales
    Aboriginal Housing Office

 

Thursday 14 February 2008 Bidwill Uniting from 1:30

Inquiry
Website: Public
Hearing
   Link to Transcript
14 February 2008 Afternoon & Public Forum
(324 KB PDF)

13:30 – Housing Communities Assistance Program

  • MICHAEL STEPHEN MAXWELL, Housing Communities
    Assistance Program, Mount Druitt Community Ministry, Parramatta-Nepean
    Presbytery of the Uniting Church in Australia

14:15 – Chain Reaction Foundation & Mt Druitt
Learning Ground

  • Ms Winsome Matthews Project Manager Mt Druitt
    Learning Ground
  • MARGARET BELL, President and Chief Executive
    Officer, Chain Reaction Foundation
  • WINSOME MATTHEWS, Mount Druitt Learning Ground

15:15 – The Men’s Shed,
Mount Druitt, Aboriginal Justice Group
and Circle Sentencing Program

  • TEDDY HART, Representative, The Men’s Shed, Mount Druitt
  • RAY LESLIE, Chairperson, Aboriginal Justice
    Group
  • JASMINE FRANKLIN,
    Project Coordinator, Circle Sentencing Program, Attorney General’s Department

16:00 – New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council

  • GEOFF SCOTT, Chief Executive Officer, New South Wales Aboriginal Land
    Council,
  • BEV MANTON, Chairperson, New South Wales Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • ROY AH-SEE, Councillor, New South Wales Aboriginal
    Land Council

17:30-19:00 PUBLIC FORUM – Bidwill Uniting
Church Community Centre Bidwill

  • Ms Avis EGAN
  • Mr David NICHOLLS
  • Ms Rita TOBIN
  • Aunty GLORIA
  • Fr MULLINS
  • Mr Rick MANTON
  • Mr Brett MANTON
  • Ms Kayleen MANTON
  • Ms MATTHEWS
  • Ms Judy PARRY

 

 

Tuesday 11 March 2008 Kempsey Macleay
RSL Club 1 York Lane,
Kempsey

Inquiry Website: Public
Meeting
Link to Transcript
11/03/2008
(284 KB PDF)

8:45 Aboriginal Land
Councils:

  • THOMAS BRIGGS, Deputy Chair and
    Northern Region Representative, New
    South Wales Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • PATRICIA LAURIE, North Coast
    Region Representative, New
    South Wales Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • LEWIS WILLIAM KELLY, Board
    Member, Kempsey
    Local Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • ROBERT ALLAN MUMBLER, Board
    Member, Kempsey
    Local Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • ANDREW JOHN RILEY, Director,
    Northern Zone Office, New
    South Wales Aboriginal
    Land Council,

9:45 NSW Department of Corrective
Services:

  • CLARRIE DRIES, General Manager,
    Wellington
    Correctional Centre
  • DONALD ERIC WADE, Community
    Service Supervisor, Probation and Parole Service
  • MARK RUTHERFORD, Aboriginal
    Client Service Officer, Probation and Parole Service
  • MOIRA MAGRATH, Director,
    Community Offender Services, Probation and Parole Service

11:00 Dunghutti Elders Council:

  • MARGARET RUTH CAMPBELL MARUCA,
    Chairperson, Dunghutti Elders Council
  • COLLEEN TERESA CAMPBELL, Member
    and Dunghutti Language Teacher, Dunghutti Elders Council

11:45 Booroongen-Djugun College:

  • FAITH CHARLENE MARCH, Deputy
    Director of Training, Booroongen-Djugun
    College
  • GARY IAN MORRIS, Chairman,
    Booroongen-Djugun Aboriginal Corporation

12:30 Circle Sentencing Court:

  • MAVIS DAVIS, Kempsey Elder and
    Circle Sentencing Panel Member
  • VICTOR DARCY, Coordinator,
    Circle Sentencing Project Officer, New South Wales Attorney General’s
    Department
  • WAYNE HENRY EVANS, Local Court
    Magistrate

 

Wednesday 12 March 2008 Oxley Room,
Dubbo Civic Centre Darling Street,
Dubbo

Inquiry Website: Public
Meeting
Link to Transcript
12/03/2008
 (271 KB PDF)

8:45 Aboriginal Land
Councils:

  • TONY SUTHERLAND, Director, Western Zone, New
    South Wales Aboriginal Land Council,
  • STEPHEN JOHN RYAN, Councillor,
    Central Region, New South
    Wales Aboriginal
    Land Council,

9:30 Binaal Billa Regional CDEP

  • CRAIG TOOLE, Operations
    Manager, Strategic Operations, Birrang Enterprise Development Company

10:30 COAG Trial Action Team members
(Murdi Paaki trial):

  • ANJALI PALMER, Regional
    Manager, Department of Aboriginal Affairs
  • MARK DE WEERD, Director,
    Department of Education and Workplace Relations
  • LOUISE BYE, Coordinator, School
    Community Partnerships, New South Wales Department of Education and
    Training,

11:30 COAG Regional Assembly &
Community Working Party representatives:

  • ALISTER FERGUSON, Chairperson, Bourke Aboriginal
    Community Working Party
  • RICHARD WESTON, Delegate,
    Broken Hill Community Working Party,
  • JEANETTE BARKER, Chairperson,
    Ngemba Community Working Party
  • WILLIAM JEFFRIES, Chairperson,
    Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly

12:30 Dubbo Aboriginal Community
Working Party

  • DARREN JOHN TOOMEY, Chair,
    Dubbo Aboriginal Community Working Party

 

Thursday 13 March 2008 Meeting Room, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre 12 Berry Street, Nowra

Inquiry Website: Public
Meeting
Link to Transcript
13/03/2008
 (284 KB PDF)

8:35 MERIT Program:

  • JAIME KEYS, Aboriginal Drug
    & Alcohol Counsellor, MERIT Program
  • GREG COLLINS, Service Manager,
    MERIT Program:

9:15 Nowra Police Department:

  • GINA WOOD, Constable of Police,
    New South Wales Police Force, Youth Liaison Officer, Shoalhaven,
  • BARRY LENIHAN, Aboriginal
    Community Liaison Officer, and
  • KYLE STEWART, Commander, New South Wales
    Police Force, Shoalhaven Local Area Command

10:00 Aunty Jean’s Good Health
Program:

  • NORMA JEAN TURNER, Program
    Coordinator, Aunty Jean’s Good Health Program,
  • NOLA ROBERTS, Participant,
    Aunty Jean’s Good Health Program

10:55 Aboriginal Land
Councils

  • SONNY SIMMS, Chief Executive
    Officer, Nowra
    Local Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • SHANE CARRIAGE, Chief Executive
    Officer, Ulladulla
    Local Aboriginal
    Land Council
  • JACK HAMPTON, Council, South Coast
    Region, New South Wales Aboriginal Land
    Council and Member, Nowra
    Local Aboriginal
    Land Council

11:35 Nowra TAFE:

  • DIANE MURRAY, Institute
    Director, Nowra TAFE, and
  • IRIS WHITE, Aboriginal
    Development Manager, Nowra TAFE

12:15 South Coast Women’s Health and
Welfare Aboriginal Corporation

  • FAYE WORNER, Chief Executive
    Officer, Waminda
    South Coast
    Women’s Health and Welfare Aboriginal Corporation

 

Tuesday 29 April 2008 – Jubilee Room, Parliament House, Sydney

Inquiry Website: Public
Hearing
29/04/2008  Link to Transcript
29/04/2008
  (495 KB PDF) 

08:00 – 09:00 Department
of Premier and Cabinet

  • Robyn Kruk Director General, Department of Premier and
    Cabinet
  • Vicki D’Adam, Assistant Director General, Policy, Department
    of Premier and Cabinet

9:00 –10:30 COAG
Trial Steering Committee

  • James McCormack, Manager, Dubbo Indigenous Coordination
    Centre, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
    Affairs
  • Susan Finnigan, New
    South Wales State
    Manager, Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous
    Affairs
  • Trevor Alan Fletcher, Deputy Director General—Schools,
    Department of Education and Training
  • Anthony John
    Greet, Group Manager—Indigenous Education Group, Department of Education,
    Employment and Workplace Relations

10:45 – 11:30
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation

  • Sally Ann Fitzpatrick, Vice President, Australians for
    Native Title and Reconciliation
  • Gary
    John
    Highland, National
    Director, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
  • Ian Ring, Professorial Fellow, Centre for Health Service
    Development, University
    of Wollongong

12:15 – 1:00 Evidence
in Camera

1:45 – 2:30 Alexandria Park Community
School

  • Ms Anne-Marie, Vine, Alexandria Park Community School, Park
    Road, Alexandria
  • Paul Parks, School
    Education Director, Sydney Region, Department of Education and Training

2:30 – 3:15 Redfern-Waterloo
Authority

  • Julie Parsons,
    Acting Manager Community Relations, Redfern-Waterloo Authority
  • Beryl Van-Oploo,
    Manager/Teacher, Redfern-Waterloo
    Authority Hospitality
    Training School
  • Robert Peter Domm, Chief Executive Officer, Redfern-Waterloo
    Authority
  • Denny Hall, Principal
    Project Manager, Training, Enterprise
    and Employment, Redfern-Waterloo Authority

3:30 – 4:15 ANZ

  • Mr Head of Indigenous Employment and Training
  • Bruce Douglas McQualter, Head of Indigenous Employment and
    Training, ANZ
  • Cathy Joyce
    Duncan, Indigenous Cultural Capability Manager, ANZ

4:15 – 5:00 Country
Energy

  • Brian Thomas Mclean,
    Group Manager, Meter Reader, Country Energy
  • Amanda Lee McCarthy, Indigenous Program Coordinator, Country
    Energy
  • Terri Anne Benson, Group General Manager, Corporate
    Services, Country Energy

Wednesday 30 April 2008 Jubilee Room, Parliament House

Inquiry Website: Public
Hearing
30/04/2008  Link to Transcript
30/04/2008 1
 (196 KB PDF)

9:00-9:45 Charles Sturt University

  • Wayne Rigby, Director, Djirruwang Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health

9:45-10:45 Mission Australia

  • Roger Joseph
    Kennedy National Program Manager, Mission Australia

11:00-11:45 University of Sydney

  • Joseph Canalese Associate
    Professor, School of Rural Health, University
    of Sydney

Wednesday 30 April 2008 Redfern Community Centre, Sydney

Inquiry Website: Public
Hearing
30/04/2008  Link to Transcript
30/04/2008 2
 ( 297 KB PDF)

1:00-2:00 Aboriginal
Housing Company & Fell House Project

  • Michael
    Mundine Chief Executive Officer Aboriginal Housing Company
  • Peter Valilis Project
    Director, Aboriginal Housing Company
  • Ms Angela Pitts,
    Community Social Planner, Aboriginal Housing Company,
  • Mr Colin James Fell Housing Research Centre, Faculty of
    Architecture, University of Sydney, and Adviser, Aboriginal Housing Company

2:00-2:45 NSW Health

  • Dr Denise Robinson Chief Health Officer, NSW Health
  • Kim Stewart Acting Director, Centre for Aboriginal Health,
    NSW Health

3:00-4:00 Aboriginal
Medical Service

  • Sol Bellear,
    Chairman, Aboriginal Medical Service, Redfern

4:00 – 4:45 Babana
Cultural Centre

  • Mark Spinks
    Chairman Babana Cultural Centre
  • John Williams,
    Pro Bono Adviser, Babana Cultural Centre
  • Ray Minniecon,
    Member, Babana Cultural Centre
  • Jack Dunn, Member, Babana Cultural Centre

4:45-5:30 The Settlement Neighbourhood Centre

  • Mr Michael Gravener,
    Executive Officer, The Settlement
    Neighbourhood Centre

Future Hearings

No dates have been set for future hearings as the committee is preparing its interim report.