MARK PATTISON: With respect, I take your point about approaching the Attorney-General and we shall go and bother him. In terms of the BSWAT though, this again goes back to the productive part of the Commission, the Commission said that you have a 12 months exemption and then the Commission turns around and says you have to report quarterly on this sort of stuff. They’ve reported quarterly but they haven't provided information which you requested, so in a sense I get the Commission just sitting there not doing anything. It needs to respond on behalf of those 10,000 people with disability in line what it said it was going to do and it is not good enough, I don't think it is good enough personally, to sit there and saying "Oh well, 12 months to play out. These things are happening", because which is what we are always getting, going back to 1986, we’ve been waiting now for how many years. We never get someone standing up on behalf of people with disability saying, this is what we said, this is the line that we have drawn, we are now going to enforce it. We keep on delaying it and relying on others to have the agenda and run with it. RYAN: You have made your view. MICK GOODA: I’m glad that we have got people here who are invested in this and who feel passionate. I thank you for participating in this little bit. There are not going to be too many people doing the talking head thing today so we have a few panels to get through. So can I thank my fellow Commissioners and let's break and have morning tea. Thank you. (Morning tea break 11.23 A.M.) Summary of Survey Results SUSAN RYAN: For this session that will with the discussion of our survey and our survey results and broaden out to other issues we wish to raise. I have a most impressive panel, if I may say so. You are probably familiar with a lot of people there, or you won't all know everyone. But, we have Frank Quinlan, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental Health Australia. We have Damian Griffis, who is the Executive Director of
MARK PATTISON: With respect, I take your point about approaching the Attorney-General and we shall go and bother him. In terms of the BSWAT though, this again goes back to the productive part of the Commission, the Commission said that you have a 12 months exemption and then the Commission turns around and says you have to report quarterly on this sort of stuff. They’ve reported quarterly but they haven't provided information which you requested, so in a sense I get the Commission just sitting there not doing anything. It needs to respond on behalf of those 10,000 people with disability in line what it said it was going to do and it is not good enough, I don't think it is good enough personally, to sit there and saying "Oh well, 12 months to play out. These things are happening", because which is what we are always getting, going back to 1986, we’ve been waiting now for how many years. We never get someone standing up on behalf of people with disability saying, this is what we said, this is the line that we have drawn, we are now going to enforce it. We keep on delaying it and relying on others to have the agenda and run with it. RYAN: You have made your view. MICK GOODA: I’m glad that we have got people here who are invested in this and who feel passionate. I thank you for participating in this little bit. There are not going to be too many people doing the talking head thing today so we have a few panels to get through. So can I thank my fellow Commissioners and let's break and have morning tea. Thank you. (Morning tea break 11.23 A.M.) Summary of Survey Results SUSAN RYAN: For this session that will with the discussion of our survey and our survey results and broaden out to other issues we wish to raise. I have a most impressive panel, if I may say so. You are probably familiar with a lot of people there, or you won't all know everyone. But, we have Frank Quinlan, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental Health Australia. We have Damian Griffis, who is the Executive Director of
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