Public hearing - Canberra, Wednesday 13 April 2011

Inquiry into the Product Stewardship Bill 2011

Public hearing - Canberra, Wednesday 13 April 2011

Committee Room 2S1
Parliament House
CANBERRA

8.50 am - 4.00 pm

Time

Witness

8.50am

Australian Food and Grocery Council (Submission 1)
Mr Tony Mahar, Director, Sustainable Development (also appearing on behalf of the National Packaging Covenant Industry Association)
Ms Jenny Pickles, General Manager, Packaging Stewardship Forum

9.25am

Ag Stewardship Australia (Submission 6)
Ms Karen Gomez, Chief Executive Officer

Croplife (Submission 7)
Mr Matthew Cossey, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Ben Stapley, Policy Manager for Crop Production and Stewardship

10.00am

Total Environment Centre (Submission 13)
Mr Jeff Angel, Executive Director

10.35am

Morning tea

10.50am

Global Product Stewardship Council (Submission 3) 
Mr Russ Martin, President

11.25am

Western Australian Local Government Association (Submission 12)
Ms Rebecca Brown, Manager Waste and Recycling, by teleconference

11.50am

Lunch

2.00pm

Australian Council of Recycling Inc (ACOR) (Submission 18)  
Mr Rod Welford, Chief Executive

2.35pm

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Dr Diana Wright, First Assistant Secretary, Environment Quality Division
Mr Michael Bennett, Director, Environment Quality Legislation Team

4.00pm

Adjournment

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Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications
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Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

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