Public hearings
Melbourne VIC, 28 April 2017
Aftercare
Dr Isabelle Meyer, Director, Operations Support
Ms Sylvia Grant, New South Wales Operations Manager
Australians for Disability Justice
Mr Patrick McGee, Co-Convenor
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Dr Emma Phillips, Member, Disability Rights Sub-Committee
Carers Australia
Ms Ara Cresswell, Chief Executive Officer
Community Mental Health Australia
Ms Amanda Bresnan, Executive Director
Ms Elizabeth Crowther, President
Community Restorative Centre
Ms Alison Churchill, Chief Executive Officer
Dr Mindy Sotiri, Program Director
Deaf Indigenous Community Consultancy
Ms Jody Barney, Consultant
Developmental Disability WA
Ms Taryn Harvey, Chief Executive Officer
Endeavour Foundation Queensland
Mr Simon Wardale, Manager, Specialist Behaviour Service
Individuals
Dr Matthew Frize, Private capacity
Intellectual Disability Rights Service Inc., New South
Wales
Ms Janene Cootes, Executive Officer
La Trobe University
Professor Patrick Keyzer, Chair of Law and Public Policy, La
Trobe Law School
Mental Health Australia
Mr Frank Quinlan, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Joshua Fear, Director, Policy and Projects
Mental Health Carers Australia
Ms Jenny Branton, Executive Officer
Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
Mr Tony Stevenson, Chief Executive Officer
Neami National
Mr Arthur Papakotsias, Chief Executive Officer
Mr David Peters, Consumer, Service user
New South Wales Council for Intellectual Disability
Mr Jim Simpson
Office of the Public Advocate
Ms Colleen Pearce, Public Advocate
Orygen
Professor Patrick McGorry, Executive Director
Queensland Advocacy Inc.
Mr Nick Collyer, Systems Advocacy
Supreme Court of Victoria
Ms Miranda Bain, Director Strategy, Government and Community
Relations, Funds in Court
University of Melbourne
Ms Rikki Mawad, Assistant Director, Tasmanian Law Reform
Institute; Coordinator, Melbourne University Disability Justice Consortium,
Melbourne Law School
Dr Piers Gooding, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne
Social Equity Institute, Melbourne Law School
Mr Jesse Young, Research Fellow, School of Population and
Global Health
University of New South Wales
Associate Professor Leanne Dowse, Chair in Intellectual
Disability, School of Social Sciences
Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
Ms Ella Kingsley, NDIS Lead
Mr Neil Turton-Lane, Consumer Liaison Manager
VICSERV Psychiatric Disability Services of Victoria
Ms Larissa Taylor, NDIS Engagement Manager
Canberra ACT, 12 May 2017
Witnesses
ACT Disability, Aged and Carer Advocacy Service
Mrs Fiona May, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Lauren O'Brien, Advocate
Bus Association Victoria
Mr Peter Kavanagh, Government Relations Manager
Bus Industry Confederation
Mr Michael Apps, Executive Director
Flourish Australia
Ms Pamela Rutledge, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Joanna Quilty, General Manager, NDIS Transition
Mental Health Commission of NSW
Mr John Feneley, Commissioner
Mind Australia Ltd
Dr Gerry Naughtin, Chief Executive Officer
Dr Sarah Pollock, Executive Director, Research and Advocacy
National Rural Health Alliance
Mr David Butt, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Fiona Brooke, Senior Policy Adviser
New England Partners in Recovery
Mr Jarrad Smith, NDIS Transition Manager
Office of the Public Advocate, Queensland
Ms Mary Burgess, Public Advocate
Office of the Public Advocate, Victoria
Ms Colleen Pearce, Public Advocate
Sunshine Coast and Gympie Partners in Recovery
Miss Candice Lee Thomson, Coordinator
Tasmanian Bus Association
Mr Geoff Lewis, Executive Director
Wide Bay Partners in Recovery
Ms Sarah James, Coordinator, Lead Agency—Central Queensland,
Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast Primary Health Network
Woden Community Service
Mr Chris Redmond, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Pamela Boyer, Director, Mental Health and Housing
Penrith NSW, 17 May 2017
Witnesses
Australian Services Union
Ms Linda White, Assistant National Secretary
Mr Angus McFarland, Assistant Secretary, ASU NSW and ACT
(Services) Branch
Mr Bernard Davey, Member
Ms Harriette Farrance, Member
Mr Philip Jones, Member
Mr Jon Mills, Member
Ms Janine Saligari, Member
Mrs Jodi Stuart, Member
Ms Bianca Villella, Member
Being - Mental Health and Wellbeing Consumer Advisory
Group
Ms Jaime Comber, Policy Officer
Department of Family and Community Services, New South
Wales
Ms Samantha Taylor, Executive Director NDIS Implementation
Department of Premier and Cabinet, New South Wales
Ms Janet Schorer, Executive Director NDIS Reform Group
Disability Council NSW
Mr Jake Fing, Council Member
First Peoples Disability Network
Mr Scott Avery, Policy and Research Director
Mental Health and NDIS Facebook Support Group
Mr Greg Franklin, Administrator
People with Disability Australia
Mrs Kate Finch, Manager, Systemic Advocacy
Canberra ACT, 16 June 2016
Witnesses
Department of Health
Ms Natasha Cole, First Assistant Secretary, Health Services
Division
Dr Anthony Millgate, Assistant Secretary, Mental Health
Services Branch, Health Services Division
Department of Social Services
Mr John Riley, Acting Group Manager, National Disability
Insurance Scheme Market Reform Group
Ms Anne-Louise Dawes, Branch Manager, Program Transition
Branch
Ms Joanne Llewellyn, Director, Carer and Mental Health
Transition
National Disability Insurance Agency
Ms Stephanie Gunn, Acting Deputy Chief Executive Officer,
Participants and Planning
Ms Deborah Roberts, Director, Mental Health
Mr Eddie Bartnik, Expert Advisory Mental Health
National Disability Insurance Agency Independent Advisory
Council
Professor Rhonda Galbally, Principal Member
Ms Janet Meagher AM, Member
Dr Gerry Naughtin, Council member
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