Public Hearing - Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Public Hearing - Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Town Hall Room,
Mecure Sydney
818–820 George Street
Sydney

PROGRAM

8.30am

Commercial Law Association of Australia
Mr Edmund Finnane, Member, Legislative Review Task Force
Ms Anne Durie, Member, Legislative Review Task Force
Mr Daren Armstrong, Secretary, Legislative Review Task Force

9.15am

St James Ethics Centre
Dr Simon Longstaff, Executive Director
Ms Emily Albert, Manager, Corporate Responsibility Index

10.00am

Break

10.15am

Ethical Investment Association
Ms Louise O'Halloran, Executive Director

11.00am

Chartered Secretaries Australia
Mr Tim Sheehy, Chief Executive
Ms Judith Fox, Director, Policy

11.45am

The Smith Family
Dr Rob Simons, National Manager Strategic Research and Social Policy

12.30pm

Australian Council of Social Service
Mr Andrew Johnson, Director
Mr Philip O'Donoghue, Deputy Director
Mr Alan Kirkland, Treasurer

1.15pm

Lunch

2.30pm

Australian Institute of Company Directors
Mr Ralph Evans, Chief Executive Officer
Mr Tony Berg AM, Member, Corporate Governance Committee
Prof Bob Baxt AO, Chairman, Law Committee
Mr Michael Coleman, Chairman, Reporting Committee
Ms Kathleen Farrell, Member, Law Committee

3.15pm

Westpac
Dr Noel Purcell, Group General Manager, Stakeholder Communications
Mr Timothy Williams, Senior Advisor, Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability

4.00pm

Dr Gianni Zappalà
Director, Orfeus Research and Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Economic and Politics, University of Sydney

4.45pm

Dr Shann Turnbull (to make a statement)
Principal, International Institute for Self-governance

5.00pm

Adjourn

For further information or to obtain hard copies of submissions, contact:

Committee Secretary
Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone:

+61 2 6277 3583

Fax:

+61 2 6277 5719

Email:

corporations.joint@aph.gov.au