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The Textiles, Clothing and Footwear Industries

Public Hearing Transcripts

Venue and Date Participants Pages
Sydney, 12 February 1997 Supertex Industries Pty Ltd (Andrew Kaldor, John Francis) 1-21

Dept of Textile Technology, University of New South Wales
(Professor Michael Pailthorpe)
22-30

Hallmark Mitex Pty Ltd (Arthur Hall) 31-50

Far North Queensland Quilting Services Pty Ltd
(Ashley Talbot-Butt)
51-65

Sport Fashion Group (Andrew Michael, George Innes 66-85

Tecknowrag (Yvonne Pembroke) 86-96



Melbourne, 18 February 1997 Australian Bush Heritage Fund

J. Robins And Sons (Christopher Trevor Smith) 98-116

Burlon Hosiery Pty Ltd (B. Burstin) 117-126

Consolidated Apparel Industries Pty Ltd (Grant Mackintosh) 127-140

Melbourne Textile KnittingCo. (I. Joseph) 141-156

Sara Lee Clothing (Rudy Patterson) 157-168

Domestic Textile Corporation (Jonathan Dempsey) 169-183

Jaido Pty Ltd Trading as Scallywag Socks
(Beverley Briese, Stephen Moorhouse)
184-196



Melbourne, 19 February 1997 Melbourne Institute of Textiles
(Alan Bowman, Mark Madden, Roger Hayhurst)
198-216

Scapa Filtration Asia Pacific (Ian Milton, Ken Shue) 217-230

VHSP Pty Ltd (Allan Rich, Geoff Towns, Mike Read) 231-245

Gloweave Consolidated Pty Ltd (Saul Same, David Same) 246-254

Australian Leather Holdings Ltd (Kel Webster, Vivien Ellard) 255-271

Australian Dyeing Company (Ian Fayman) 272-287

Gibbs Burge (Australia) Pty Ltd (Tony Lester) 288-299

Yakka (Aust) Pty Ltd (John Laidlaw, Andrew Edgar) 300-319

Footwear Manufacturers Association of Australia
(Laurie Jenkin, Peter Eames)
320-331



Melbourne, 20 February 1997 Enterprise Skills Pty Ltd (Roslyn Verity, Sara De Basso,
Helen Poskus, Bruno Biasin)
333-341

Federated Tanners Association of Australia
(Greg Mackey, John Menzies
342-361

North East Victorian Regions, Represented by
Development Albury-Wodonga 2000, (Graham Oke)
362-367

Bradmill Undare Group (Allan Kerr, Jack Frazer) 368-390

Carpet Institute of Australia
(Charles Szakiel, John Garrett, Ian Cox)
391-411

Godfrey Hirst (John Garrett, Ian Bartlett) 412-427

Shaw Industries (John Godwin, Ray Bennetts) 428-443

Australian Wool Processors Council
(Brian Van Rooyen, Geoff Abbott, Louise Jamson)
444-456

Sasha Shoes (Terry Griffin, David Herbert) 457-467



Melbourne, 21 February 1997 Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia
(TFIA), (Robert Hershan, Peter Kreitals)
469-505

Pacific Brands (Robert Hershan, Paul Moore, Geoff Burfurd) 506-535

Rocklea Spinning Mills (Neil Brand, Trevor Dawson, Miles Harvey) 536-557

Diana Ferrari (Michael Murray, John Kirkhope) 558-577



Sydney, 28 July 1997 Bruck Textiles

Footwear Manufacturers’ Association of Australia

Far North Queensland Quilting Services Pty Ltd

Australian Business Chamber Ltd

Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women
of Australia


J Robins & Sons Pty Ltd

Sheridan Australia

TCF Exporters Forum



Melbourne, 30 July 1997 Margaret Smolski

Moreland City Council

City of Yarra

City of Kingston

City of Casey

City of Whittlesea

City of Greater Dandenong

City of Darebin

City of Greater Geelong

Victorian Labor Party

National Farmers’Federation

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union

Yakka in Wangaratta

Godfrey Hirst, Geelong

Yakka, Wodonga

Gloweave, Fitzroy

Gloster Apparel Production

Electorate of Wills - Kelvin Thomson



Melbourne, 31 July 1997 Scallywags Industries

Australian Leather Industry Association

Australian Chamber of Manufactures

Heather Craig Pty Ltd

Melbourne Institute of Textiles

Diana Ferrari

Society for Balanced Trade

Council of Textile and Fashion Industries



Melbourne, 4 August 1997 Shaw Industries Australia

Godfrey Hirst Australia

Carpet Institute

Pacific Brands

Wool Council of Australia

Economic Development Authority



Melbourne, 6 August 1997 Flicker’sAustralia

Mondrian Pty Ltd

Rural City of Wangaratta

Turning Point (Australia) Pty Ltd

North Link

Nietl

Track n Field Sportswear Pty Ltd

Australian Dyeing Co

Electronik Fabric Makers (Vic) Pty Ltd

Exclusive Fleece PtyLtd



Melbourne, 7 August 1997 Peter Sheppard Footwear Pty Ltd

Bradmill Group of Companies

Hunter Douglas Ltd

Geelong Chamber of Commerce

Geelong Congress of Business Associations

Ciba Specialty Chemicals

Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures

Yakka Pty Ltd



Brisbane, 8 August 1997 DR Manufacturing

Petersen Levy & Associates Pty Ltd

Anna Flair

Rixon Holdings

Hallmark