APPENDIX 2
WITNESSES WHO APPEARED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE AT PUBLIC
HEARINGS
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Parliament House, Canberra
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Claire
Moore (Chair)
Senator Catryna
Bilyk
Senator Sue Boyce
Senator Mitch Fifield
Senator Mark Furner
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator Gary Humphries
Witnesses
Department of Health and
Ageing
Ms Mary Murnane, Deputy Secretary
Mr Chris Reid, General Counsel
National Health
and Medical Research Council
Professor Warwick Anderson, Chief
Executive Officer
IP Australia
Mrs Fatima Beattie, Deputy Director General
Mr Leo O'Keeffe, Director, Domestic Policy
Ms Kristina Huynh, Policy Officer
Ms Lexie Press,
Senior Examiner of Patents
Dr Luigi
Palombi
Dr Hazel Moir
Monday, 3 August 2009
St James Court Conference Centre, West Melbourne
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Judith
Adams
Senator Sue Boyce
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator Gary
Humphries
Senator John
Williams
Witnesses
Intellectual Property
Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
Associate Professor Beth Webster, Director
Dr Kwanghui Lim, Associate Director
Dr Chris Dent, Senior Research Fellow
Professor Diane Nicol and Dr Jane Nielsen
Human Genetics Society of Australasia
Associate Professor David Amor
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Mr Julian Clark, Head, Business Development
Ms Carmela Monger, Intellectual
Property and Contracts Manager
Breast Cancer Network Australia
Ms Lyn Swinburne AM, Chief Executive Officer
Ms Michelle Marven, Policy Manager
Ms Heather Drum, Member
Ms Kristi Smith, Member
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
St James Court Conference Centre, West Melbourne
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Judith
Adams
Senator Sue Boyce
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator Gary
Humphries
Senator John
Williams
Witnesses
Institute of Patent and Trade
Mark Attorneys of Australia
Dr Trevor Davies, Councillor
Davies Collison Cave
Mr John Slattery, Consultant
FB Rice & Co
Mr Ian Rourke, Partner
Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia
Dr Graeme Suthers, Chair, Genetics Advisory Committee
Mr Michael Ralston, Member, Genetics Advisory Committee
Dr Tamsin Waterhouse, Deputy Chief
Executive Officer
Professor Andrew Christie
Law Council of Australia, Intellectual Property Committee
Mr Richard Hamer, Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson
Mr Richard Jarvis, Partner, Davies
Collison Cave
Australian Marfan Foundation
Mrs Jennifer West, Secretary
Dr Belinda Coyte (via
teleconference)
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Gillian Mitchell, Director, Familial Cancer Centre
Professor Stephen Fox, Director of Pathology
Professor David Bowtell, Director of Research
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
Dixson Room, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Judith
Adams
Senator Sue Boyce
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator Gary Humphries
Senator John
Williams
Witnesses
Cancer Council Australia
Professor Ian Olver, Chief Executive Officer
Professor Bruce Mann, Specialist
Breast Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist, Clinical Oncological Society of
Australia
Breast Cancer Action Group
Ms Janet Green, Chair
Cancer Voices NSW
Ms Sally Crossing AM, Chair
Medicines Australia
Ms Deborah Monk, Director, Innovation
and Industry Policy
Clinical Associate Professor Judy
Kirk, Director Familial Cancer Service, Westmead Hospital
Dr Jennifer Leary, Laboratory
Director, Familial Cancer Service, Westmead Hospital
Dr Anna Ronan, Clinical
Geneticist, Hunter Genetics Unit
Professor Ron Trent, Professor of
Molecular Genetics, University of Sydney
Department of Industry and Investment New South Wales
Dr Gerard Cudmore, Acting Director,
Office for Science and Medical Research
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Parliament House, Canberra
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Judith Adams
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator Gary
Humphries
Senator John Williams
Witnesses
Dr Hazel Moir
Dr Matthew Rimmer
Professor Peter Drahos
IP Australia
Mrs Fatima Beattie, Deputy Director General
Mr Leo O'Keeffe, Director, Domestic Policy
Ms Kristina Huynh, Policy Officer
Ms Lexie Press, Senior Examiner of
Patents
Department of Health and Ageing
Ms Mary McDonald, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Regulatory
Policy and Governance Division
Mr Chris Reid, General Counsel
National Health and Medical Research Council
Dr Clive Morris, Chief Knowledge and Development Officer
Monday, 14 September 2009
Parliament House, Canberra
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator John Williams
Witnesses
Dr Luigi Palombi
Tuesday 18 May 2010
Parliament House, Canberra
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Judith
Adams
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Senator Gary
Humphries
Witnesses
IP Australia
Mrs Fatima Beattie, Deputy Director General
Mr Leo O'Keeffe, Director, Domestic Policy
Tuesday 15 June 2010
Parliament House, Canberra
Committee Members in attendance
Senator Rachel
Siewert (Chair)
Senator Claire
Moore (Deputy Chair)
Senator Judith
Adams
Senator Sue Boyce
Senator the Hon.
Bill Heffernan
Witnesses
IP Australia
Ms Terry Moore, Director, Office of the Director General
Mrs Fatima
Beattie, Deputy Director General
Ms Lexie Press, Senior Examiner of Patents
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