Appendix C – Witnesses appearing at public hearings

Canberra

Monday, 21 July 2008

Department of Defence

Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Brown – Deputy Chief of Air Force

Mr Steven Grzeskowiak – Acting First Assistant Secretary Personnel

Dr Ian Gardner – Functional Head/Senior Consultant Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Mr Michael Lysewycz – Director of Litigation, Defence Legal Division

Commonwealth Ombudsman

Dr Vivienne Thom – Acting Commonwealth Ombudsman

Ms Anna Clendinning – Senior Assistant Ombudsman

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Mr Ed Killesteyn – Acting Secretary

Mr Barry Telford – General Manager, Policy and Development Division

Ms Carolyn Spiers – Principal Legal Advisor, Business Integrity Division

Mr Sean Farrelly – National Manager, Compensation and Income Support Policy Group

Brisbane

Monday, 28 July 2008

Mr Ian Fraser – F1-11 Deseal/Reseal Support Group Inc

Mr Gerard Murray

Mr Phillip Moon and Mr Peter Flannery

Mr Barry Gray

Mr William Knilands

Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Mr Doug Steley

Mr Stanley Lawler

Mr David Stenzel

Ms Amanda Grady and Mr David Grady

Mr Melvyn Funk

Mr Glen Corrie

Mr Ray Webster

Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia

Mr Peter Johnson

Mr Alan Aburn

Canberra

Friday, 19 September 2008

Returned and Services League of Australia

Mr John Hodges – National Veterans’ Affairs Advisor

Mr Vivian Quinn – RSL National Veterans’ Affairs Committee (Queensland Branch) Delegate

Mr Raymond Townsend – Vice President, RSL (Queensland Branch)

Defence Force Welfare Association

COL (Rtd) David Jamison – National President

LCDR RAN (Rtd) Richard Griffiths – National Secretary

Mr Michael Dowsett – Honorary Medical Advisor

SHOAMP

Professor John Attia, MD,PhD, FRCPC, FRACP – Professor of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology - Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Newcastle Academic Director of General Medicine – John Hunter Hospital

Dr Tony Brown – Director, Population Health, Greater Western Area Health Service, Dubbo, NSW

Department of Veterans Affairs

Mr Ed Killesteyn – Acting Secretary

Mr Sean Farrelly – National Manager, Compensation and Income Support Policy Group

Mr Ken Douglas – General Manager, Service Delivery Division

Mr Barry Telford – General Manager, Policy and Development Division

Ms Carolyn Spiers – Principal Legal Advisor, Business Integrity Division

Department of Defence

Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Brown – Deputy Chief of Air Force

WGCDR Bill Sanders – Deputy Director, F1-11 Deseal/Reseal Board of Inquiry

Mr Michael Lysewycz – Acting Assistant Secretary, Legal Services

Dr Ian Gardner – Senior Consultant in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Canberra

Thursday, 16 April 2009

Professor Frank Bowling – Director, Biochemical Diseases Unit, Mater Children’s Hospital

Canberra

Friday, 17 April 2009

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare – Third Study into Mortality and Cancer Incidence

Mrs Julie Roediger - Deputy Director

Mr Mark Cooper-Stanbury – Cluster Head, Population Health Unit

Mrs Ilona Brockway – Research Analyst

Mr Robert Van Der Hoel – Project Manager, Population Health Unit

Researchers – Various reports on chemicals used in the F1-11 Deseal/Reseal Program

Dr Diana Oakes – Lecturer, Discipline of Biomedical Science,

University of Sydney

Professor Bill Webster – Reproductive Toxicology, University of Sydney

F1-11 Deseal/Reseal Support Group Inc

Mr Ian Fraser – President

Mrs Kathleen Henry – Vice President

Department of Defence 

Air Vice-Marshal Geoffrey Brown – Deputy Chief of Air Force

Group Captain Robert Lawson – Officer Commanding SRSPO

Mr Michael Lysewycz – Acting Assistant Secretary, Legal Services,

Department of Defence

Mr Stefan Danek – Danek Report (Deseal/Reseal Board of Inquiry)

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Mr Gary Collins – Acting Deputy President

Mr Barry Telford – General Manager, Policy and Development Division

Mr Ken Douglas – General Manager, Service Delivery Division

Mr Sean Farrelly – National Manager, Compensation and Income

Support Group

Mr Roger Winzenberg – National Manager, Rehabilitation,

Research and Development Group

Ms Eileen Wilson – Epidemiologist, Strategic Research and

Development Section