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Senate Select Committee on Mental Health

Public Hearing - Canberra, Friday, 7 October 2005

Committee Room 1 R 1
Parliament House Canberra

9:15 – 10:30

Department of Health and Ageing

  • Mr Philip Davis, Acting Secretary
  • Prof. John Horvath, Chief Medical Officer
  • Ms Margaret Lyons, First Assistant Secretary, Health Services Improvement Division
  • Prof. Harvey Whiteford, Mental Health Clinical Adviser
  • Mr Bill Buckingham, Mental Health Consultant
  • Mr John Primrose, Medical Adviser, Pharmaceutical Benefits Branch
  • Ms Rosemary Huxtable, First Assistant Secretary, Medical and Pharmaceutical Services Division
  • Mr Charles Maskell-Knight, First Assistant Secretary, Acute Care Division
  • Mr David Learmonth, First Assistant Secretary, Primary Care Division
  • Ms Lesley Podesta, First Assistant Secretary, OATSIH
  • Ms Jenny Hefford, A/g First Assistant Secretary, Population Health Division

Department of Immigration and Indigenous and Multicultural Affairs

  • Ms Lynne O'Connell, First Assistant Secretary, Detention Services Division
  • Mr Dermot Casey, Assistant Secretary, Detention Health Services Strategy Branch

10:30 – 10:45

Morning Tea

10:45 – 12:45

Department of Health and Ageing continued

Medicare Australia (formerly Health Insurance Commission)

  • Dr Janet Mould, General Manager, Program Review Division, Medicare Australia

12:45 – 1:45

Lunch

1:45 – 3:30

Department of Health and Ageing continued as required

FaCS

  • Ms Susan Bozic, Section Manager, Carers Section
  • Ms Ellen Wood, Section Manager, Homelessness Policy and Assistance

DEWR

  • Mr Barry Sandison, A/g Group Manager Working Age Policy

Human Services

  • Ms Perry Sperling, First Assistant Secretary, Service Delivery - Policy and Strategy

Centrelink

  • Ms Moya Drayton, National Manager, Disabilities Services Branch, Centrelink

3:30 – 3:45

Afternoon Tea

3:45 – 4:15

Department of Health and Ageing continued as required

Continuation of: DEWR, Human Services, Centrelink

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