Appendix 2 - Witnesses who appeared before the Committee at Public Hearings

Appendix 2 - Witnesses who appeared before the Committee at Public Hearings

Tuesday, 7 March 2006

Parliament House, Canberra

National Water Commission
Mr Ken Matthews, Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Mr Malcolm Thompson, General Manager, Water Reform Group
Dr Colin Chartres, Science Advisor

Murray Darling Basin Commission
Mr Robert Douglas, Director, Water Policy Coordination
Mr Scott Keyworth, Director, Strategy Implementation
Mr Leslie Roberts, General Manager, Natural Resources
Mr Andrew Close, Manager, Water Resources Group

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Mr Warwick McDonald, Acting Flagship Director, Water for a Healthy Country
Professor Michael Young, Chief Research Scientist, Land and Water and Adjunct Professor, University of New England and Charles Sturt University

Engineers Australia
Mr Andre Kaspura, Policy Analyst
Mr Alexander Loy, Chair, National Subcommittee on Water Data
Dr Ian Cordery, Committee Member
Dr William Weeks, Committee Member

Australian Property Institute, Australian Spatial Information Business Association and Open Geospatial Consortium Australasia
Mr John Sheehan, Chair, Government Liaison, and Past NSW Divisional President Australian Property Institute
Mr Jeffrey Warner, Deputy National Director, Australian Property Institute
Mr David Hocking, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Spatial Information Business Association
Dr Robert Starling, Regional Coordinator, Open Geospatial Consortium Australasia

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)
Dr Stephen Beare, Chief Economist
Ms Annalise Heaney, Manager, Land and Water, Natural Resources Branch

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Mr Tom Aldred, Executive Manager, Natural Resource Management Division
Mr Ross Dalton, General Manager, Assessment, Innovation and Climate Change
Dr Colin Grant, Deputy Executive Director, Bureau of Rural Sciences
Mr Simon Smalley, General Manager, Water Policy and Murray-Darling Basin

 

Wednesday, 2 August 2006

Toowoomba City Hall, Toowoomba

Toowoomba City Council
Councillor Dianne Thorley, Mayor
Councillor Lyle Shelton

Cubbie Group Ltd
Mr John Grabbe, Joint Managing Director, Cubbie Group Ltd
Mr Paul Brimblecombe, Joint Managing Director, Cubbie Group Ltd
Councillor Robert Buchan, Mayor, Balonne Shire Council

Central Downs Irrigators Ltd/Queensland Irrigators' Council
Mr Ian Hayllor, Vice Chairman, Central Downs Irrigators Ltd
Mr Jan Lafrenz, Chairman, Central Downs Irrigators Ltd
Mr Franklyn Brazil, Chairman, Queensland Irrigators' Council

Toowoomba and Region Environment Council
Ms Sarah Moles, Member

Condamine Alliance
Mr Richard Browne, Chair
Mr Phillip McCullough, Chief Executive Officer

Queensland Farmers' Federation
Mr Gary Sansom, President
Mr Ian Johnson, Water Adviser

 

Wednesday, 16 August 2006

Parliament House, Canberra

New South Wales Farmers Association, Brewarrina Branch/Lower Balonne Floodplain Graziers Association
Mr Edward Fessey, Chair, NSW Farmers' Association, Brewarrina Branch and Member, Lower Balonne Floodplain Graziers' Association
Mr Rory Treweeke, Chairman, Lower Balonne Floodplain Graziers' Association

Water Corporation of Western Australia
Dr James Gill, Chief Executive Officer

 

Friday, 15 September 2006

Parliament House, Canberra

WWF-Australia
Dr Stuart Blanch, Northern Landscapes Manager, Freshwater Manager

National Water Commission
Mr Malcolm Thompson, General Manager, Water Reform Group
Mr Harry Abrahams, Team Leader, Water Access Entitlements and Planning
Mr Matthew Kendall, Project Director, Australian Water Resources Assessment
Mr Steven Costello, General Manager, Water Programmes Group

Cotton Australia
Mr Ralph Leutton, Program Manager

New South Wales Irrigators Council
Mr Doug Miell, Chief Executive

Mr Robert Caldwell, Forbes farmer

Mr Peter MacPhillamy, Forbes farmer

Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN)
Mr Steven Ross, Coordinator

Australian Conservation Foundation and Inland Rivers Network
Dr Arlene Buchan, Healthy Rivers Campaigner
Ms Amy Hankinson, Coordinator

 

Thursday, 12 October 2006

Parliament House Canberra

Murray Darling Basin Commission
Dr Wendy Craik, Chief Executive
Mr Robert Douglas, Director, Water Policy Coordination

 

Wednesday, 18 October 2006

Parliament House, Canberra

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
Dr Bryson Bates, Director, Climate Program
Ms Donna Edman, General Manager, Government Relations

University of New South Wales
Professor Richard Kingsford, Professor of Environmental Science, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences

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