Appendix 2 - 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission

APPENDIX 2

2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission—Interim Report
2 appendix – HEARING DAYS AND WITNESSES
Day Date Witness name
1 11 May 2009 Mr Luke Andrew Corbett (Operations and Planning Officer, CFA)
Mr Russell James Rees (Chief Officer, CFA)
Mr Ewan Waller (Chief Officer, Fire and Emergency Management, DSE)
2 12 May 2009 Mr Ewan Waller (Chief Officer, Fire and Emergency Management, DSE)
Mr Russell James Rees (Chief Officer, CFA)
Ms Jesse Monica Odgers (Lay witness)
Mr Bruce Esplin (Emergency Services Commissioner, State of Victoria)
3 13 May 2009 Mr Bruce Esplin (Emergency Services Commissioner, State of Victoria)
Mr Peter Graham Newman (Lay witness)
4 14 May 2009 Mr Brian David Patten (Lay witness)
Dr Katharine Augusta Haynes (Centre for Risk and Community Safety, RMIT
University, Risk Frontiers, Macquarie University)
5 15 May 2009 Mr Denis John Spooner (Lay witness)
6 18 May 2009 Mr Bruce Esplin (Emergency Services Commissioner, State of Victoria)
Mr Kieran James Walshe (Deputy Commissioner, Victoria Police)
Mr Kenneth George Rogers (Lay witness)
7 19 May 2009 Mr Kieran James Walshe (Deputy Commissioner, Victoria Police)
Dr Mark Williams (Meteorologist, Bureau of Meteorology)
Mrs Joan Frances Davey (Lay witness)
Mr Anthony Stephen Griffiths (Acting Manager, Fire Information & Systems
Group, DSE)
8 20 May 2009 Mr Anthony Stephen Griffiths (Acting Manager, Fire Information & Systems
Group, DSE)
Mr Paul Hendrie (Kinglake Brigade Captain, CFA)
Mr Lou Mario Sigmund (Group Officer, Morwell Group, CFA)
Dr John Walton Ferguson (Lay witness)
9 21 May 2009 Mr Simon Matthew Langdon (EyeFi)
Dr Kevin Gerard Tolhurst (Senior Lecturer, Fire Ecology and Management,
Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne)
Ms Jillian Gay Kane (Lay witness)
10 25 May 2009 Dr Kevin Gerard Tolhurst (Senior Lecturer, Fire Ecology and Management,
Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne)
Mr Daryl Roger Hull (Lay witness)
Mr Kieran James Walshe (Deputy Commissioner, Victoria Police)
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11 26 May 2009 Mr Gregory Peter Murphy (Kilmore Brigade Captain, CFA)
Mr Stewart Duncan Kreltszheim (Region 23 Operations Manager and
Incident Controller at Kilmore Incident Control Centre, CFA)
Ms Christine Mandie Glassford (Lay witness)
Mrs Serafina Yvette Munns (Facilitator and Fire Ready Presenter for Region 13
and Member of Information Unit, Kangaroo Ground Incident Control Centre, CFA)

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Day Date Witness name
12 27 May 2009 Mr Anthony Charles Pearce (Director General, Emergency Management Australia)
Mr Bevan Brett Gobbett (Lay witness)
13 28 May 2009 Mrs Serafina Yvette Munns (Facilitator and Fire Ready Presenter for Region 13
and Member of Information Unit, Kangaroo Ground Incident Control Centre, CFA)
Mr John David Brown (Lay witness)
Mr Paul Gerard O’Halloran (Detective Inspector, Victoria Police)
Mr Jason Robert Lawrence (Operations Officer and Incident Controller at Kangaroo
Ground Incident Control Centre, CFA)
Mr Alexander Caughey (Community Education Coordinator and Information Officer
at Seymour Regional Emergency Coordination Centre, CFA)
14 29 May 2009 Ms Leonie Jane Hunter (Information Officer at Alexandra Group Headquarters and
Information Team Leader at Kilmore Incident Control Centre, CFA)
Dr Kevin Gerard Tolhurst (Senior Lecturer, Fire Ecology and Management,
Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne)
15 1 June 2009 Ms Samantha Ross Stayner (Acting Program Director, 774 ABC Melbourne)
Mr Peter Geoffrey Olorenshaw (Lay witness)
Mr Russell James Rees (Chief Officer, CFA)
16 2 June 2009 Mr Neil Francis Foster (Chief Executive Officer, ESTA)
Mr Owen Michael Kiernan (Operations Manager (Support), ESTA)
Mr Kenneth James Dwight (Lay witness)
17 3 June 2009 Mr Rodney William Collins (Superintendant, Victoria Police)
Dr Christopher Harvey (Lay witness)
Mr David Victor McGahy (Arthurs Creek Brigade Captain, CFA)
18 4 June 2009 Prof Douglas Paton (Chair in the School of Psychology, University of Tasmania)
Mr Christopher Leonard William Casey (Lay witness)
19 9 June 2009 Mr Russell James Rees (Chief Officer, CFA)
Ms Sharon Lisa McCulloch (Lay witness)
20 10 June 2009 Mr Russell James Rees (Chief Officer, CFA)
Mr Douglas Elliot Walter (Lay witness)
21 11 June 2009 Mr Russell James Rees (Chief Officer, CFA)
Ms Naomi Patricia Brown (Chief Executive Officer, AFAC)
Mr John Bryan Gledhill (Chief Executive Officer and Chief Officer, the Tasmania
Fire Service)
Mr Illiya Joseph Ananiev (Lay witness)
Mr Simon Anthony Seear (Member, Walhalla Brigade, CFA)
22 12 June 2009 Mr Stuart Andrew Lawson (Deputy Chief Officer, Country Fire Service
of South Australia)
Ms Jillian Patricia Edwards (Manager Strategy and Knowledge, AFAC)
Ms Anastasia Scott (Lay witness)
Ms Naomi Patricia Brown (Chief Executive Officer, AFAC)
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2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission—Interim Report
2 appendix – HEARING DAYS AND WITNESSES
Day Date Witness name
23 15 June 2009 Mr Norman John Free (Manager of the State Fire Management Planning Support
Team hosted by the CFA)
Mr Andrew Edmond Willans (Mt Gordon Fire Tower Operator, DSE)
Dr Lachlan Clyde Fraser (Lay witness)
24 16 June 2009 Prof John William Handmer (Disaster Management Expert)
Mr John Colin O’Neill (Lay witness)
Ms Colleen Mary Keating (Kangaroo Ground Fire Tower Operator, CFA)
25 17 June 2009 Mr David Anderson Cooper (Group Deputy Officer Lower Yarra Group, CFA)
Mr Alexander Caughey (Community Education Coordinator and Information Officer
at Seymour Regional Emergency Coordination Centre, CFA)
Mr Alan Norman Rhodes (Manager, Community Safety Research and Evaluation, CFA)
Ms Gwendoline Mary Alice Barber (Lay witness)
Mr Alan Norman Rhodes (Manager, Community Safety Research and Evaluation, CFA)
26 18 June 2009 Dr Sarah Mariah McCaffrey (Research Forester/Social Scientist at the US
Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Northern Research Station in
Evanston, Illinois)
Mr Rocky Joseph Barca (Manager, Werribee Park, Parks Victoria and Deputy
Incident Controller at Kangaroo Ground Incident Control Centre)
Mr Peter Ross Brown (Lay witness)
Mr Alan Norman Rhodes (Manager, Community Safety Research and Evaluation, CFA)
Mr Grant Alan Johnstone (General Manager of ACE Radio’s Traralgon-based TRFM
and Gold 1242)
27 22 June 2009 Mr Robert John Beresford (Director, Service Delivery for the Southern Region of
Telstra and Chairman, Telstra’s Regional Emergency Council for Victoria)
Mr John Lawrence Cowan (National Networks Manager for the Managed Radio
Networks Group Enhanced Operations at Telstra and Planning Office at Kangaroo
Ground Incident Control Centre, CFA)
Mr David John O’Halloran (Lay witness)
28 23 June 2009 Mrs Carol Ann Matthews (Lay witness)
Ms Jane Louise Elkington (Emergency Service Answer Point National Manager, Telstra)
Mr Michael Domenic Consolo (General Manager, Telstra)
Mr Maxwell Roland Jennings (Director – Wireless Network Engineering, Telstra)
29 24 June 2009 Mr Maxwell Roland Jennings (Director – Wireless Network Engineering, Telstra)
Mr David Roy Packham (Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in Geography and
Environmental Science, Monash University)
Ms Karen Ann Ward (Lay witness)
Mr Michael William Sutton (Manager of the Forest Resource Analysis and Modelling
Section of the Forest and Parks Division, DSE)
Mr Gavin Daniel McCormack (Kangaroo Ground Fire Tower Operator, CFA)
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Appendix 2
Day Date Witness name
30 25 June 2009 Mr Robert Norman Spence (Chief Executive Officer, Municipal Association
of Victoria)
Mr John Joseph Williams (Lay witness)
Mr Gregory Alan Paterson (State Duty Officer, CFA)
31 26 June 2009 Mr Gregory Alan Paterson (State Duty Officer, CFA)
Mr Timothy Sholl (Strath Tower Fire Operator, Melbourne Water)
Mr Ewan Waller (Chief Officer, Fire and Emergency Management, DSE)
Mr Kenneth Robert Williamson (Whittlesea Brigade Captain, CFA)
32 29 June 2009 Mr John David Nicholson (Consultant, Community Safety Services Pty Ltd)
Ms Jacqueline Ann Hainsworth (Lay witness)
Dr Kevin Gerard Tolhurst (Senior Lecturer, Fire Ecology and Management,
Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne)
33 30 June 2009 Ms Kathryn Irene Venters (Manager of Customer Services, DSE)
Ms Christine Ann Millington (Manager of Customer Liaison and Education,
Customer Service Centre, DSE)
Ms Carolyn Hogg (Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Centrelink)
Mr Tony Robert Cook (Deputy Secretary for the Office for Planning, Strategy and
Coordination, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development)
34 1 July 2009 Ms Sarah Margaret Henshaw (Instructional Designer, Learning and Development
and Information Unit leader at iECC, CFA)
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