Appendix B: Public hearings and round table meetings (non-inquiry related)

Wednesday, 25 May 2011: Petitions from Canberra, Parliament House, Canberra

Principal petitioner

n  Cocoa products and the use of child labour

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

n  Cocoa products and the use of child labour

AusAID

n  Australia’s foreign aid expenditure

Thursday, 1 December 2011: Petitions from Melbourne, Parliament House, Melbourne

Principal petitioners/representatives

n  Zebra chip disease in New Zealand potatoes

n  Funding development programs to prevent child sexual exploitation

n  Treatment of Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemoglobinuria disease

n  Patentable subject matter for computation and information processing

Friday, 2 December 2011: Petitions from Gippsland region, La Trobe City Council Service Centre, Traralgon

Principal petitioners

n  Implementation of a National Disability Insurance Scheme

n  Cattle Grazing in the Alpine National Park

n  Funding for occasional childcare services

n  Supply of PBS medicines to community pharmacies

Thursday, 30 August 2012: Petitions from Western Australia, South of Perth Yacht Club, Applecross

Principal petitioners

n  World Heritage Listing for the Dampier Archipelago

n  Free bone density testing for Australian women at menopause

n  Aircraft noise over Rockingham Beach area

n  Referendum for an Australian Republic

Friday, 31 August 2012: Petitions from Western Australia, Santa Maria College, Attadale

Principal petitioner

n  Asylum seeker legislation and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Wednesday, 20 March 2013: Selected petitions, Parliament House, Canberra

Department of Health and Ageing

n  Restoration of the extended Medicare Safety-Net for Obstetrics

n  Advanced radiotherapy treatments for Medicare Rebates

n  National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

n  Immediate ban on the importation of primates for research purposes

Thursday, 11 April 2013: Petitions from the Sydney metropolitan area, Parliament House, Sydney

Principal petitioners/representatives

n  National Bowel Cancer Screening Program

n  Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement talks

n  Flight-crew ratios under Civil Aviation Orders

n  Mandatory disclosure by financial institutions of customer information held offshore

Friday, 12 April 2013: Petitions from the Brisbane metropolitan area, Parliament House, Brisbane

Principal petitioners

n  Recognising job risk in award payments to truck drivers

n  Intercountry adoption with Burundi

n  Australia supporting recognition of Palestine as a Non-Member State of the United Nations

n  Halal food labelling practices