Organisational Submissions received by the Committee

Inquiry into the Health Legislation Amendment (Midwives and Nurse Practitioners) Bill 2009 and two related Bills

The Committee has received over 2000 individual submissions or correspondence on this inquiry.  Due to resource implications it is not physically possible to publish them all on the website and many may not be individually acknowledged. They will be listed in the Committee's report.

Organisational Submissions received by the Committee

Sub No. Submitter Submission

1

Group of Senior Academic Midwives

(PDF 166KB)

2

Empowered Birth Australia

(PDF 28KB)

3

Northern Rivers Maternity Action Group

(PDF 22KB)

4

Australian College of Midwives (Tasmanian Branch)

(PDF 28KB)

5

Hungerford, Ms Catherine

(PDF 24KB)

6

Friends of the Birth Centre Qld Inc

(PDF 24KB)

7

Natural Birth Education and Research Centre Inc

(PDF 187KB)

8

Australian College of Nurse Practitioners

(PDF 70KB)

9

Midwives in Private Practice

(PDF 1643KB)

10

Australian College of Mental Health Nurses

(PDF 346KB)

11

Childbirth Australia Inc

(PDF 184KB)

12

Maternity Coalition Darling Downs

(PDF 35KB)

13

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

(PDF 414KB)

14

Friends of the Mackay Birth Centre

(PDF 28KB)

15

Australian Medical Association (AMA)

(PDF 86KB)

16

Nicholson, Dr Lisa and Surman, Dr Chris

(PDF 10KB)

17

Eastside Midwives

(PDF 655KB)

18

Birthtalk.org

(PDF 11KB)

19

Community Midwifery WA

(PDF 25KB)

20

Homebirth Access Sydney

(PDF 60KB)

21

Australian College of Midwives SA Branch

(PDF 8KB)

22

O'Shea, Ms Terry

(PDF 32KB)

23

Peninsula Birth Support

(PDF 89KB)

24

Joyous Birth – Australian Homebirth Network

(PDF 16KB)

25

Queensland Centre for Mothers and Babies

(PDF 737KB)

26

CRANAplus

(PDF 137KB)

27

CARES-SA

(PDF 83KB)

28

Rural Doctors Association of Australia

(PDF 399KB)

29

Student Advisory Committee, Australian College of Midwives

(PDF 56KB)

30

Australian College of Midwives

(PDF 144KB)

31

Homebirth Australia

(PDF 186KB)

32

Tracey, Professor Sally; Welsh, Professor Alec; Bisits, A/Professor Andrew; Tracy, Dr Mark

(PDF 111KB)

33

Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc

(PDF 9KB)

34

Executive of the Queensland Branch, Australian College of Midwives

(PDF 18KB)

35

Maternity Coalition

(PDF 493KB)

36

Australian Private Midwives Association

(PDF 185KB)

37

Department of Health and Ageing
Additional information received 21.01.10 following the hearing on 17.12.09 (PDF 3638KB)

(PDF 6121KB)

 

38

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council

(PDF 1315KB)

39

Royal College of Nursing Australia

(PDF 215KB)

40

Australian Nursing Federation

(PDF 123KB)

41

Australian General Practice Network

(PDF 118KB)

42

Birth Healing

(PDF 56KB)

43

Central Victorian Midwifery Group Practice

(PDF 12KB)

44

Simply Natural Therapies

(PDF 6KB)

45

Demanuele, Ms Gaye and Ireland, Ms Jan

(PDF 11KB)

46

Reiger, Dr Kerreen and Lane, Dr Karen

(PDF 167KB)

47

Maternity Coalition Victoria Branch

(PDF 192KB)

48

Maternity Coalition Ballarat Branch

(PDF 21KB)

49

Women's Hospitals Australasia

(PDF 54KB)

50

Thompson, Ms Robyn

(PDF 823KB)

51

Birth Choices Castlemaine

(PDF 7KB)

52

Healing Well

(PDF 10KB)

53

Nurses Board of Victoria

(PDF 877KB)

54

Australian Practice Nurses Association

(PDF 128KB)

55

Southern Health

(PDF 441KB)

56

Caesarean Awareness Network Australia

(PDF 80KB)

57

Australian College of Midwives ACT

(PDF 20KB)

58

Home Birth Aotearoa Trust

(PDF 18KB)

59

Home Midwifery Association Qld Inc

(PDF 54KB)

60

Homebirth Network of South Australia

(PDF 61KB)

61

Midwives Alliance of North America

(PDF 20KB)

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Australia

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Email: community.affairs.sen@aph.gov.au