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Water Policy Initiatives

Public hearing - Canberra, Tuesday, 7 March 2006

Committee Room 2S1, Parliament House, Canberra

Time

Witness

Sub

9.00-10.00

National Water Commission

  • Mr Ken Matthews, CEO & Chair
  • Mr Malcolm Thompson, General Manager Water Reform Group
  • Mr Colin Chartres, Scientific Adviser

 

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10.00-11.00

Murray Darling Basin Commission

  • Mr Les Roberts, General Manager Natural Resources
  • Mr Scott Keyworth, Director Strategy Implementation
  • Mr Bob Douglas, Director of Water Policy Coordination
  • Mr Andy Close

 

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11.00-11.15

break

 

11.15-12.00

CSIRO

  • Mr Warwick McDonald, Ag Director Water for a Healthy Country Flagship
  • Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Research Director CSIRO Land and Water
  • Mr Mike Young, CSIRO Land and Water

 

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12.00-12.45

Engineers Australia

  • Mr Andre Kaspura, Policy Analyst
  • Associate Professor Ian Cordery
  • Mr Alex Loy
  • Mr Bill Weeks

 

8

12.45-1.30

lunch

 

1.30-2.15

Australian Property Institute

  • Mr Grant Warner, Deputy National Director
  • Mr John Sheehan, Chair Government Liaison, & immediate past president, NSW division

Australian Spatial Information Business Association

  • Mr David Hocking CEO
  • Dr Robert Starling

 

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36

2.15-3.00

ABARE

  • Dr Stephen Beare
  • Ms Anna Heaney

 

12

3.00-4.00

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

  • Mr Tom Aldred, Executive Manager Natural Resource Management
  • Mr Simon Smalley, General Manager NRM Water and MDB Branch
  • Mr Ross Dalton, General Maanger Assessment, Innovation and Climate Change
  • Dr Colin Grant, Deputy Executive Director, Bureau of Rural Sciences

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Committee secretariat: 02 6277 3510, 0404 017 339

For further information, contact:

Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone: +61 2 6277 3511
Fax: +61 2 6277 5811
Email: rrat.sen@aph.gov.au 

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