Appendix 2 - Witnesses who appeared before the Committee at public hearings
Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Crowne Plaza, Alice Springs
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel Siewert (Acting Chair) |
Senator Trish Crossin |
Senator Judith Adams |
Senator Mark Furner |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator Gary Humphries |
Witnesses
Gilbert & Tobin Centre of
Public Law UNSW
Mr Sean Brennan, Project Director and Senior Lecturer
Mr Jonathan Dillon, Social Justice
Intern
Central Australian Youth
Link-up Service (CAYLUS)
Mr Tristan Ray, Coordinator
Mr Blair McFarland, Coordinator
Warburton/ Warakurna
Delegation
Ms Beryl Jennings (Warburton community)
Ms Daisy Ward (Warburton community)
Ms Eunice Porter (Warakurna community)
Ms Valerie Foster (Wanarn community)
Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara
Yankunytjatjara (NPY) Women’s Council
Ms Julie Anderson, Director
Ms Janet Inyika, Vice Chairperson (SA)
Ms Vicki Gillick, Coordinator
Ms Mary Anderson, Interpreter
Yirara College
Mr Tim Conaghan, Acting Deputy Senior Houseparent
Mr Alan Russ, Community Liaison
Officer
Mission Australia
Mr Phillip Leslie, State Director Northern Territory
Mr Paul Phyland, Operations Manager
Mr Mark Swindells, Service Manager
Alice Springs Town
Council
Mr Craig Catchlove, Director, Corporate & Community
Services
Mr Samih Habig, Alderman
Ms Melanie Van Haaren, Alderman
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Adelaide Town
Hall, Adelaide
(Held
in conjunction with Senate Select Committee on Regional and Remote Aboriginal
Communities)
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire Moore (Chair) |
Senator Gary Humphries |
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator the Hon David Johnston |
Senator Catryna Bilyk |
Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion |
Senator Sue Boyce |
|
Witnesses
UnitingCare Wesley
Adelaide
Ms Sue Park, Chief Executive
Mr Jonathan Nicholls, Senior Policy Officer
Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol
Council SA
Mr Scott Wilson, Director
Mr Christopher Perry, Project Office, Making Tracks
BP Australia
Mr Gavin Jackman, Director, Government Affairs
Mr Chris McKenzie, Fuels Marketing Program Manager
South Australian Government
Ms Nerida Saunders, Executive Director, Aboriginal Affairs and
Reconcilliation Division, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Ms Kim Petersen, Director, Remote Communities, Aboriginal
Affairs and Reconciliation Division, Department of Premier and Cabinet
Women's Legal Service SA Inc
Ms Marilyn Wright, Senior solicitor and coordinator
Ms Zita Ngor, Solicitor
Mrs Grace Miller, Aboriginal Women's Community Worker
National Centre for Education
and Training on Addiction
Professor Ann Roche, Director
School of Medicine,
Flinders University
Associate Professor Dennis McDermott,
Indigenous health
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Parliament House, Canberra
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire Moore (Chair) |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator Mark Furner |
Senator Catryna Bilyk |
Senator Gary Humphries |
Witnesses
Department of Families,
Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Ms Donna Moody, Group Manager, Program Performance Group
Mr Steve Vaughan, Manager, Central Australian Petrol Sniffing
Strategy Unit
Ms Adrienne Gillam, Executive
Coordinator, APY Lands Branch, Program Performance Group
Department of Health and
Ageing
Ms Lesley Podesta, First Assistant Secretary, Office for
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Ms Tarja Saastamoinen, Assistant
Secretary, Family Health and Wellbeing Branch, Office for Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Health
Department of Education,
Employment and Workplace Relations
Mr Stephen Goodwin, Branch Manager,
Indigenous Policy Branch, Indigenous Group
Attorney-General's Department
Mr John Boersig, Assistant Secretary,
Indigenous Policy and Service Delivery Branch, Indigenous Justice and Legal
Assistance Division
Site
visits and informal meetings
Monday,
27 October 2008, Site visits and informal meetings at Yuendumu, Papunya and
Alice Springs NT
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator Trish Crossin |
Senator Judith Adams |
Senator Mark Furner |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator Gary Humphries |
The committee travelled from Alice
Springs to Yuendumu and met with Mr Brett Badger, Assistant Manager and Senior
Counsellor with the Mt Theo Program.
The committee attended the signing of the Tanami Regional
Partnership Agreement in Yuendumu and the official opening of the Yuendumu
swimming pool.
The committee travelled to Papunya and met with the
following community elders, members and staff:
Sid Anderson - former Community Council Deputy Chairman
(recently elected to Macdonnell Shire Council)
Lance McDonald - former Community Council Chairman (currently
on Shire work team at Papunya)
Sammy Butcher - former Community Councillor (Work for the Dole
Supervisor at Papunya)
Willie Nakamara - Elder
Michael Nelson - Elder and renowned artist
Linda Anderson - former Community Councillor (Deputy
Principal/Indigenous Principal at Papunya School)
Punata Stockman - Senior woman at Papunya
Graham Polson - Pastor
Sarah Stockman - Community member
Murray Raggett - Community member
Sue Sifa - School Principal at Papunya
Mark Hutchings - Government Business Manager
The committee returned to Alice
Springs and met with Mr Will MacGregor, Manager, Bushmob House.
Tuesday, 28 October
2008, Site visits at Alpurrurlam and Alice Springs NT
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator Trish Crossin |
Senator Judith Adams |
Senator Mark Furner |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator Gary Humphries |
The committee travelled to
Alpurrurlam (Lake Nash) and met with community elders, members and staff,
including:
Rod Richardson - Barkly Shire Services Manager
Ross Forbes - School Principal
Kerry Campbell - active community member
Gary Fowler - ESO/power and water
Craig Philomac - builder
John Percy - active community member
Irene Toby - teacher assistant
Jenny Mahoney - teacher assistant and elder
Willie Bookie - night patrol
Valerie Campbell - nutrition and school nutrition
Anna Flouris - sport and recreation/youth work
Leanne - Manager Health Clinic
The committee met with Alpurrurulam youth program volunteers
and participants.
The committee travelled to Alice
Springs and met with community elders and members at Hoppies Town Camp.
Sunday, 1 March 2009,
Site visit and informal meetings at Mutitjulu NT
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire Moore (Chair) |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator Trish Crossin |
Senator Catryna Bilyk |
Senator Mark Furner |
In attendance: Mrs Furner, Mr Chris
Twomey, Mr Paul Phyland (Mission Australia), Mark Swindell, and members of Mission
Australia's staff, Dorothea Randall, community members.
The site visits and informal meetings undertaken 1-4 March
2009 were held by the Committee in conjunction with the Senate Select Committee
on Regional and Remote Aboriginal Communities.
The committee visited Mutitjulu community and met with
community members to talk generally about issues faced by the community. Issues
raised included municipal services, employment and the lack of effective job
network services, and child care.
The committee were then shown the youth facilities and discussed
youth services offered under the Northern Territory Integrated Youth Services
Project (NTIYSP).
Monday,
2 March 2009, Site visits and informal meetings at Amata SA, Yulara NT
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire Moore (Chair) |
Senator Trish Crossin |
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator Mark Furner |
Senator Catryna Bilyk |
Senator Gary Humphries |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion |
In attendance: Mr Chris Twomey, Felix
Humphries, Ms Kim Petersen and Ms Nerida Saunders (SA government), Ms Adrienne
Gillam (FaHCSIA).
The committee visited Amata community and met with staff of
organisations and agencies and community members. Organisations visited
included:
Substance Misuse Facility
Amata Anangu School
PY Ku Rural Transaction Centre
Homemakers Centre
Tjala Arts Centre
The committee spoke with staff and members of the community
about services, funding, the community's needs and issues. The committees also
inspected the new Substance Misuse Facility.
The committees then returned to
Yulara and met with representatives of the Voyages Ayers Rock Resort and the GPT
Group, Mr Bernie Boller and Mr Bruce Morris. The discussion focussed on the
implementation of the Petrol Sniffing Strategy and what could be done to offer
more incentives for business and industry to partner with Indigenous
communities.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009,
Site visits and informal meetings in Adelaide SA
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire Moore (Chair) |
Senator Sue Boyce |
Senator Rachel Siewert (Deputy Chair) |
Senator Gary Humphries |
Senator Catryna Bilyk |
Senator the Hon Nigel Scullion |
The Committee attempted to visit
Umuwa community however the airstrip was too wet to allow the plane to land
safely. The Committee then flew to Adelaide and met with Better World Arts in
Port Adelaide.
The Committee spoke with staff
about the partner programs Better World Arts runs with Indigenous artists and
artisans in developing countries such as Peru and India, and heard about the
need for more support and information for Indigenous families connected to the
arts centre.
Wednesday, 4 March
2009, private meeting with the Hon E P Mulligan QC, Adelaide SA
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire Moore
(Chair)
|
Senator Rachel Siewert
(Deputy Chair)
|
Senator Catryna Bilyk
|
Senator Sue Boyce
|
Senator Gary Humphries
|
Senator the Hon David
Johnston
|
Senator the Hon Nigel
Scullion
|
The committee met with Mr Ted Mullighan,
former Commissioner, to discuss the findings of his Commissions of Inquiry into
child abuse on the APY lands and abuse of children in state care in SA.
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