Appendix 2
Public hearings and witnesses since the first report
SYDNEY, 2 APRIL 1997
Australian Council of Social Service
Mr Michael Raper, Deputy President
Ms Jill Anderson, Policy Resource Coordinator
Combined Community Legal Centres Group - New South Wales
Ms Robin Banks, Member
Ms Judith Burgess, Representative
Mr James Johnson, Representative
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
Mr Ray Robinson, Deputy Chairperson
Mr William Eldridge, General Manager, Social and Cultural Division
Mr Ray Kent, Assistant General Manager, Culture, Legal Aid and Family
Policy
Law Society of New South Wales
Mr Patrick Vaughan Fair, President
Mr Mark Richardson, Chief Executive Officer
New South Wales Bar Association
Mr Timothy Game, Deputy Chair
Ms Babette Smith, Chief Executive
Ms Jane Needham, Member, Bar Council
Mr Stephen Norrish, Member, Legal Aid Commission
Mrs Judith Rees, Member, Legal Aid Liaison Committee
Australian Plaintiff Lawyers Association
Mr Peter Semmler, National President
Ms Catherine Henry, NSW Branch President
Community Services Australia (Uniting Church)
Reverend Harry Herbert, Chairperson
Returned and Services League - Victoria
Mr Bruce Ruxton, State President
Mr Charles Reichman
Law Foundation of New South Wales
Mr Simon Rice, Director
Public Defenders (NSW)
Mr Martin Sides, QC, Senior Public Defender
Justice Research Centre
Professor Ted Wright, Director
PERTH, 15 APRIL 1997
Environmental Defender's Office
Mr Michael Bennett, Solicitor
Pilbara Community Legal Service
Mrs Delma Zimmermann, Chairperson, Committee
Ms Rebecca Hicks, Treasurer
Mrs June Councillor, Coordinator
Women's Legal Services Inc.
Ms Trish Cowles, Principal Solicitor
Ms Alexis Wolfgramm, Coordinator
Law Society of Western Australia
Ms Kate O'Brien, Senior Vice-President
Mr Richard Cullen, Member, Legal Aid Committee
Mr Gregory Mohen, Coordinator, Law Access
North Perth Migrant Community Legal Centre
Miss Allison Currie, Principal Solicitor
Headwest (Head Injured Society of WA Inc.)
Mr Glyn Davies, Executive Officer
Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia
Mr Gary Downes, Assistant Director (Planning and Corporate Development)
Western Australian Government
Hon. Peter Foss, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice
Federation of Community Legal Centres
Mr Stephen Hall, Member
Mr Andrew Moore
Ms Alexis Wolfgramm, Member
Catholic Migrant Centre
Mr Sipho Khoza, Migration Agent
WA Association for Mental Health Inc.
Ms Helen Lynes, Executive Officer
Welfare Rights and Advocacy Service
Ms Jann McFarlane, Coordinator
Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia
Ms Pendo Mwaiteleke, Senior Policy Officer
People with Disabilities (WA) Inc.
Ms Kaye Regan, Manager
Attorney-General's Department
Mr Leslie Smith, Consultant to the Public Sector Standards Commissioner
Ethnic Disability Advocacy Centre
Mr Sinisa Strbac, Advocacy Officer
Society of Labor Lawyers (WA Branch)
Mr Philip Vincent, Member of Committee
PERTH, 16 APRIL 1997
Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia
Ms Carol Bahemia, Director
Mr Robert Lindsay, Deputy Director
Mr Alexander Payne, Solicitor in Charge, Criminal Law
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (Inc.)
Ms Colleen Hayward, Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Mr Tony Buti, Solicitor
Supreme Court of Western Australia
The Hon. Chief Justice David Malcolm, AC