Senate Committee - Legal and Constitutional Affairs - 15 February 2022 (Additional Estimates)
Channel: Australian Parliament Fan
Date: 24/02/2022

The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee on 15 February 2022 for additional estimates.

The transcript of this committee meeting can be found here:
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22committees/estimate/25616/0000%22

Senators present:
- Senator the Hon Sarah Henderson, Chair
- Senator the Hon Kim Carr
- Senator Dorinda Cox
- Senator Karen Grogan
- Senator McAllister
- Senator Andrew McLachlan
- Senator Jim Molan AO DSC
- Senator Rex Patrick
- Senator Janet Rice
- Senator Paul Scarr
- Senator Jordon Steele-John
- Senator Lidia Thorpe
- Senator David Van
- Senator Larissa Waters
- Senator Murray Watt

Witness who spoke:
- Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash, Attorney-General
- Toni Pirani, FAS, Legal Services Policy, AGD
- Katherine Jones, Secretary, AGD
- Dr Albin Smrdel PSM, Assistant Secretary (AS), Legal System Branch, Families and Legal System Division, AGD
- Tamsyn Harvey, A/g Deputy Secretary, Legal Services and Families Group, AGD
- Michael Johnson, AS, Defamation Taskforce, Families and Legal System, AGD
- Sarah Chidgey, Deputy Secretary, Integrity and International Group, AGD
- Dianne Orr, A/g AS, Office of Legal Services Coordination, Legal Services Policy , AGD
- Elizabeth Brayshaw, AS, Human Rights Branch, Integrity and Security , AGD
- Adam Nott, A/g AS, Legal Assistance Branch, Legal Services Policy, AGD
- Esther Bogaart, AS, Fraud Prevention & Anti-Corruption Branch, Integrity and Security, AGD
- Phillip Ng, A/g AS, Security, Emergency & Administrative Law Branch, Integrity and Security Division, AGD
- Jamie Crew, A/g Registrar, AAT
- Chris Matthies, CLO, AAT
- Sobet Haddad, Senior Reviewer, AAT
- Jacqueline Fredman, CCO, AAT
- Senator the Hon Amanda Stoker, Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General
- David Pringle, CEO and Principal Registrar of the FCFCA
- Sia Lagos, CEO and Principal Registrar, Federal Court of Australia
- Anne-Marie Rice, Senior Judicial Registrar and Executive Director Dispute Resolution, FCFCA
- Philippa Lynch, Chief Executive and Principal Registrar, HCA
- Margaret Baird, CFO, HCA
- Angelene Falk, Australian Information Commissioner & Privacy Commissioner
- Elizabeth Hampton, A/g FOI Commissioner, OAIC
- Melanie Drayton, A/g Deputy Commissioner, OAIC
- Yaso Arumugam, A/g Director-General, NAA
- Prof Rosalind Croucher AM, President, Australian Human Rights Commission
- June Oscar AO, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner
- Dr Ben Gauntlett, Disability Discrimination Commissioner
- Kate Jenkins, Sex Discrimination Commissioner
- Paul Cronan AM, Official Secretary, RCVANEPD
- Joanna Carey, Assistant Secretary, Engagement Branch, RCVANEPD
- Sarah McNaughton, Director of Public Prosecutions, CDPP

0:00 - Opening
4:45 - Attorney-General's Department
5:06:05 - Administrative Appeals Tribunal
6:48:09 - Federal Court & Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
7:19:49 - High Court of Australia
7:36:33 - Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
7:46:44 - Suspension
8:41:50 - Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
8:56:32 - National Archives of Australia
9:23:15 - Australian Human Rights Commission
10:35:44 - Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
11:06:05 - Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
11:48:53 - Adjournment
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