Public hearing - Canberra, Thursday 12 April 2012

Inquiry into the Telecommunications Amendment (Mobile Phone Towers) Bill 2011

Public hearing - Canberra, Thursday 12 April 2012

Committee Room 2S1, Parliament House, Canberra

Time

Witness

9.30 am

Panel:
Mrs Anthea Hopkins (Submission 23)

Worried Householders Action Against Tower (Submission 39)
Ms Sue Hetherington, Group Facilitator

Tower Action Group (Submission 51)
Mr Ian Bullock, President

No Towers Near Schools(Submission 48)
Ms Anna Castellano, Community Representative
Mr Ian Gray, Community Representative

10.30 am

Morning tea

10.45 am

Panel:
Communications Alliance (Submission 21)
Mr John Stanton, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Michael Johns, Project Manager, Communications

Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (Submission 33)
Mr Chris Althaus, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Ray McKenzie, Program Manager, Mobile Carriers Forum

11.30 am

Lunch

1.30 pm

Australian Local Government Association (Submission 9)
Mr Adrian Beresford-Wylie, Chief Executive Officer

2.15 pm

Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (Submission 47)
Dr Carl-Magnus Larsson, Chief Executive Officer
Dr Lindsay Martin, Manager, Electromagnetic Radiation Section

3.30 pm

Afternoon tea

3.45 pm

Panel:
Australian Communications and Media Authority (No submission)
Mr Mark Loney, Executive Manager, Operations Branch
Ms Michelle Richardson, Manager, Radiocommunications Licensing and Telecommunications Deployment

Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (Submission 42)
Mr Mark Heazlett, A/g First Assistant Secretary, NBN Implementation Division
Mr Philip Mason, Assistant Secretary, NBN Regulation, NBN Implementation Division

4.45 pm

Adjournment

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Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications
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Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

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