15 August 2002
REVISED DATES FOR SYDNEY PUBLIC HEARINGS NATIONAL INQUIRY INTO CHILDREN IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION
The next Sydney inquiry hearings will now be held on:
Monday 9 September
- Thursday 12 September at 9.00 am
At the Ballroom, Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 161 Sussex Street, Sydney
These are revised dates to those announced previously.
The Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs will give evidence at these hearings. The Department's submission to the Inquiry is available on the DIMIA website - http://www.immi.gov.au/.
Australasian Correctional Management will also give evidence.
Transcripts of the hearings, and previously unavailable submissions made to the Inquiry on Children in Immigration Detention, will be published on the HREOC website by the end of this week - www.humanrights.gov.au/
MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES
ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE HEARINGS.
However, some evidence may be given in camera and the Commission has powers
to suppress information that may identify certain individuals. For information
on confidentiality please see:
www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/privacy.html
Media contact: James
Deefholts, Public Affairs Unit on (02) 9284 9618
Jan Forrester, Public Affairs Unit on (02) 9284 9751
