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Independent Community Consultation Panel
Cabinet has appointed Mr Julian Gardner, Ms
Dominique Saunders and Mr Wayne Schwass to the independent Community Consultation
Panel (the Panel) to lead public consultations on the review. The Panel
will be supported by the legislation review team based in the Mental Health
and Drugs Division of the Department of Human Services.
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Mr Julian Gardner, Chair
Legal consultant specialising in human rights and social justice.
Mr Gardner recently led a review of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 1995. He was Victoria’s Public Advocate from 2000 to 2007
and prior to that he was president of the Mental Health Review
Board. Mr Gardner has a strong background in community law. |
Ms Dominique Saunders is Corporate Counsel at
Western Health, sessional lawyer member of the Mental Health Review
Board and a council member of the Law Institute of Victoria.
Ms Saunders
has previously worked as an advocate for mental health consumers and
has a strong background in advocating for the protection of human
rights. |
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Mr Wayne Schwass played 282 VFL/AFL games for North Melbourne
and the Sydney Swans between 1988 and 2002. He was a member of North
Melbourne's 1995 Pre Season Premiership and 1996 AFL Centenary Premiership.
Mr Schwass' own personal experience with depression was the driving
force behind him establishing "The Sunrise Foundation"
with the vision to engage, educate and empower young people on the
subject of depression. |
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