Senate Committee - Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade - 16 February 2022 (Additional Estimates)
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Date: 22/02/2022

The Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence & Trade Committee met on 16 February 2022.

The transcript of this committee hearing can be found here: https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22committees%2Festimate%2F25625%2F0000%22

Senators present:
- Senator the Hon Eric Abetz, Chair
- Senator the Hon David Fawcett
- Senator Major General Jim Molan AO DSC
- Senator Kimberly Kitching
- Senator the Hon Kristina Kennelly
- Senator Tim Ayres
- Senator Mehreen Faruqi
- Senator Peter Whish-Wilson
- Senator David Van
- Senator Rex Patrick
- Senator Janet Rice
- Senator Jacqui Lambie

Witnesses who spoke:
- Senator the Hon Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs
- Major General Kathryn Campbell AO CSC & Bar, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
- Katrina Cooper, Deputy Secretary, Southeast Asia and Global Partners Group, DFAT
- Craig Maclachlan, Deputy Secretary, Security, Legal and Consular Group, DFAT
- Dr Tobias Feakin, Ambassador for Cyber Affairs and Critical Technology, DFAT
- Jamie Isbister, Ambassador for The Environment, DFAT
- Ewen McDonald, Head, Office of the Pacific, DFAT 
- Kathy Klugman, Deputy Secretary, Development and Multilateral Group, DFAT
- Danielle Heinecke, First Assistant Secretary (FAS), Pacific Operations and Development Division, DFAT
- Marc Innes-Brown PSM, First Assistant Secretary, Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan Division, DFAT
- Greg Wilcock, Consular and Crisis Management Division, DFAT
- Roger Noble AO DSC CSC, Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism, DFAT
- Justin Hayhurst, Deputy Secretary, Geostrategic Group, DFAT
- Elly Lawson, First Assistant Secretary, East Asia Division, DFAT
- Adrian Hudson, Chief Operating Officer, DFAT
- Bridget Brill, Executive Director, Australian Passport Office, DFAT
- Adam McCarthy, Chief Legal Officer and First Assistant Secretary, Legal Division, DFAT
- Ian McConville, Chief of Protocol, DFAT
- Elizabeth Peak, Deputy Head and First Assistant Secretary, Office of the Pacific, DFAT
- Tim Yeend, Associate Secretary, DFAT
- Michael Growder, Assistant Secretary, Trade, Investment and Business Engagement Division and Trade Expansion and Diversification Branch, DFAT
- Elisabeth Bowes, First Assistant Secretary (FAS), Regional Trade Agreements Division, DFAT
- James Baxter PSM, FAS, Office of Trade Negotiations, DFAT
- Kate Duff, First Assistant Secretary, Pacific Bilateral Division, DFAT
- Senator the Hon Zed Seselja, Minister for International Development and the Pacific
- Liz Cosson AM CSC, Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA)
- Senator Jonathon Duniam, representing Minister for Veterans' Affairs
- Natasha Cole, FAS, Client Benefits, DVA
- Vicki Rundle, Deputy Secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Mark Harrigan, Chief Operating Officer, DVA
- Kate Pope PSM, Deputy President, Veteran & Family Policy Group, DVA
- Tim Bayliss AM, Director, Office of Australian War Graves, DVA
- Leanne Cameron, First Assistant Secretary, Mental Health and Wellbeing Services, DVA

0:00 - Opening
1:22 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
3:14:06 - Committee Suspended Not Adjourned Until 1:30
3:14:33 - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
8:27:55 - Department of Veterans' Affairs
9:32:02 - Suspension
9:44:49 - Department of Veterans' Affairs
11:05:53 - Adjournment

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