Public hearings and witnesses
Thursday 17 November 2017
Dr Nick Forde, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Discipline of
Psychiatry
Mr Ray Kemp – private capacity
Dr Jon Lane – private capacity
The William Kibby VC, Veterans' Shed
Mr Barry Heffernan, Shed Coordinator
Northern Suburbs Veterans Support Centre
Mr Arthur Ventham, Chair
Mr Guy Bowering – private capacity
Returned and Services League (South Australia Branch)
Ms Julia Langrehr, Chief Executive Officer
Brigadier Tim Hanna, State President
Mr Justin Brown, Director, Veterans Services
Government of South Australia
Mr Rob Manton, Director Veterans SA
Veterans' Advisory Council of South Australia
Air Vice Marshal Brent Espeland AM, Chair
Mr Chris Burns, SA Commissioner for Mental Health and member
of the Veterans' Advisory Council SA
Ms Chantelle Graham, Member of the Veterans' Advisory
Council, SA
Friday 18 November 2017
Soldier On
Mr John Bale, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Nicole Thomson-Pride, Communications and Media Manager
Partners of Veterans Association of Australia
Ms Narelle Bromhead, President
Mrs Lesley Minner, Entitlements Officer
Alliance of Defence Service Organisations
Colonel David Jamison AM (retd), National Spokesman, Royal
Australian Armoured Corps Corporation
Mr Noel McLaughlin, Chairman
Suicide Prevention Australia
Mr Anastasios (Stan) Piperoglou, Director
Mr Ben Johnson – private capacity
Dr Catriona Bruce
Mr Sam Miller
Dr Julie Christie
Vietnam Veterans' Federation of Australia
Mr James Wain, National President
Mr Allan Anforth – private capacity
Trooper Evan Donaldson – private capacity
Thursday 2 February 2017
Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention
Dr Katelyn Kerr, Clinical Psychologist
Dr Kairi Kolves, Principal Research Fellow and Course
Convener
Dr Andrew Khoo, Director of Medical Services, Toowong
Private Hospital
Defence Force Welfare Association - Queensland Branch
Mr John Lowis, President
Mr Robert Shortridge, Executive Vice President
Slater & Gordon Lawyers
Mr Brian Briggs, Practice Group Leader, Military
Compensation
Private Mental Health Consumer Carer Network (Australia)
Limited
Ms Janne McMahon OAM, Chair and Executive Officer
Mr Norm Wotherspoon, Coordinator for Queensland
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists
Professor Malcolm Hopwood, President
Mates4Mates
Mr Simon Sauer, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Suzanne Desailly, General Manager Operations
Ruff Love Assistance Dogs
Mr Ricky Lawson, President
Mr Timothy Clark, Treasurer
Mr Russel Ward, Secretary
Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental
Health
Professor David Forbes, Director
Dr Andrea Phelps, Deputy Director
Dr John Cooper, Consultant Psychiatrist
Monday 6 February 2017
Returned and Services League of Australia
Mr Robert Dick, Acting National President
Mr Jim Gilchrist, Deputy President
Veterans' Review Board
Mr Doug Humphreys, Principal Member
Ms Katrina Harry, National Registrar
Department of Defence
VADM, Ray Griggs AO, CSC, Vice Chief of the Defence Force
Mr David Morton, Director General Mental Health, Psychology
and Rehabilitation
RADM Brett Wolski AM, Head People Capability
AVM Tracy Smart, Commander Joint Health
Administrative Appeals Tribunal
Ms Sian Leathem, Registrar
Mr Chris Matthies, Executive Director Strategy and Policy
Repatriation Medical Authority
Professor Nick Saunders AO, Chair
Professor Gerard Byrne, Member
Mr Paul Murdoch, Registrar
Dr Sandra Pollitt, Medical Researcher
Australian Peacekeeper and Peacemaker Veterans'
Association
Mr Rod Thompson, Advocate Level 4
Mr Michael Quinn, Advocate Level 4
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Mr Simon Lewis PSM, Secretary
Ms Liz Cosson AM, CSC, Deputy Secretary
Mr Craig Orme DSC AM CSC, Deputy President, Repatriation
Commission
Ms Carolyn Spiers, Principal Legal Adviser
Friday 5 May 2017
Mr Frank O'Neill – private capacity
Veterans Advisory Council Western Australia
Mr Max Ball, Chair
Mr Peter Larter, Advocate, Australian Special Air Service
Association
Mr Peter Reece – private capacity
Australian Federation of Totally and Permanently
Incapacitated (TPI) Ex-Service Men and Women
Ms Pat McCabe OAM, President
Mr Ray Pearce, WA Vice President
Bravery Trust
Mr Peter Fitzpatrick AM, Chair
Mr Sean Farrell, Chief Executive Officer
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