Progress in rail reform

Public hearings

The following public hearings were held following the release of the issues paper on 14 August 2003.

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Rail 2000 Inc (Mark Carter, Frank Lander)2-22
Australian Southern Railroad (Charles Chabot)23-38
Bicycle Federation of Australia (Rodney Munro)39-46
Dr Ernest Easton47-64
Burnside City Council, Local Government Association of South Australia (Allan Ward)65-76
Elizabeth Hiskey77-84

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Bicycle Federation of Australia (Bruce Robinson, Brian Fleay)86-106
Department of Transport WA (Doug Brindal, Rob Burrows)107-125
Hammersley Iron (Peter Eggleston, Malcolm Richmond)126-134

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Phillip Glencoe Laird136-157
Better Cities Illawarra (Phillip Glencoe Laird)158-162
Railway Technical Society of Australia (Chris Venn-Brown)163-181
Bicycle Federation of Australia (Bronwyn Laing)182-193
Freightcorp (Gary Pedersen, David Attlee)194-220
Rail Equity and Finance Group (Ian Gibbs)221-232

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New South Wales Department of Transport (John Austen)234-262
State Rail Authority of New South Wales (Richard Anthony Day, Walter Setkiewicz)263-284
Capricorn Capital Limited (Andrew John Buckland, Sacha Fidler)285-298
National Rail Corporation (Fred Norman Affleck, David Stanley Edwards)299-325
Patrick Stevedores (Gary Camp)326-340

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New South Wales Minerals Council (Denis Porter, Kenn Clacher, Russell Scott)341-358
Rail Services Australia (Terry Ogg)359-371
Campbelltown and Districts Commuter Association (William Craig)372-378
Friends of the Northern Railway (Gregory Smith)379-389

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Shell Coal Pty Ltd (Russell J Scott)391-405
Graham Scott406-421
Stewart Hames422-431
John Franklin432-438

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Australasian Railway Association (John Kirk, David Hill)440-473
Bicycle Federation of Australia and People for Ecologically Sustainable Transport (Alan Parker, John Harland, Ken Healy)474-492
Australian Wheat Board (Ted Laskie, Ray Fehlberg, Roger O'Donnell)493-511

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Vicgrain (Graham Watsford)512-522
Department of Transport and Regional Services (Robyn Beetham, Andrew Wilson)523-539
Rio Tinto (Barry Cusack, Peter McMahon)540-551
Australian Services Union (Greg McLean)552-563
Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (David Marchant, Denise McMillan-Hall)564-581

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National Competition Council (Ed Willett, Deborah Cope)583-598
Balance Research (Eric Michael Isaachsen)599-618
Queensland Mining Council (Ben Klaasen, Noel Leach)619-637

The following public hearings were held following the release of the draft report on 30 March 1999.

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Rail Access Corporation (Judi Stack, Terry Bones, Peter Hicks)640-671
Freightcorp (Lucio Di Bartolomeo, Gary Pedersen)672-702

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New South Wales Minerals Council (Denis Porter, Kenn Moody Clacher)692-707
Blue Mountains Commuter Transport Users Association (Paul C Trevaskis)708-710
Railway Technical Society of Australia and Transport Users Association (Philip Glencoe Laird)711-732
Operations Research Group Pty Ltd (Jay Horton)733-742

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Westrail (Garry Wayne James)744-771
Institute of Science and Technology Policy Murdoch University (Brian Jesse Fleay)772-788

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Friends of the Belair Line (Jane Louise Brooks)789-797
Australian Rail Track Corporation (David Marchant, Glenn Edwards)798-820
People for Public Transport (Margaret Dingle)821-829
Ernest Easton830-847

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Robert McKillop848-858
Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union (Roger Gavin Jowett)859-885
Bicycle Federation of Australia (Alan Parker)886-895
Glenelg Shire Council (Peter O'Rorke, Stuart Walker)896-906
Great Southern Railway (Stephen Bradford)907-916
Industry Reference Group (John Hearsch)917-936

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Department of Infrastructure (John Paterson, Peter Harris)938-960
Balance Research (Eric Michael Isaachsen)961-971
Great Northern Rail Services (Graham Craig Walton)972-983
Department of Transport Queensland (Helen Stehbens, Greg Ford, Chris Nash, Terry Whiteman)984-999
National Rail Corporation Ltd (Fred Norman Affleck)1000-1033

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Australian Railway Association (John Kirk, David Hill)1035-1055
Safeworking Services Pty Ltd (Thomas Deveney)1056-1065
BHP Transport (Ross Mitchell, David Goodwin)1066-1081
Specialised Container Transport (Mark McAvoy, Bill Reed)1082-1092
Wimmera-Mallee Rail Sevices Association (Phillip Jones)1093-1103
Rail Access Corporation (Judi Stack, Terry Bones, Peter Hicks)1104-1130