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2011

November 2011

Submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications, regarding the inquiry into ABC programming decisions.
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July 2011

Submission to the Hon Nick Sherry, Minister for Small Business & Senator the Hon Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science & Research regarding the future of booksellers in Australia.
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>> Read Senator Sherry's response (PDF)
>>Read Senator Carr's response (PDF)

June 2011

Submission to the Public Hearing of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Reference Committee Inquiry into the Australian Film and Literature Classification Scheme.
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January 2011

Submission to the Book Industry Strategy Group
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2010

August 2010

Submission to the 2nd roundtable on the Educational Use of Internet Materials
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Election 2010: An Absence of initiatives for authors
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NAVA ArtsPeak calls for Arts Policy
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Subsmission to ACARA on the Y11-12 English Curriculum
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July 2010

Submission to ArtsNSW Funding Administration
RE: Application for 2011-2013 Triennial Arts Funding Program by Western Sydney Young People's Literature Project
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June 2010

Letter in support of Express Media's application to the Australian Government's 'Youth Development and Support Program' to initiate a National Young Writers' Month.
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April 2010

Submission to the Standing Committee on Education and Training
RE: Inquiry into School Libraries and Teacher Librarians in Australian Schools
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2008

November 2008

Joint letter to Productivity Commission
Re: Copyright Restrictions on the Parallel Importation of Books into Australia
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October 2008

Letter to Dr Ken Henry AC - Chair, Taxation Review Panel
Re: Australia's future tax system
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August 2008

Letter to The Hon Robert McClelland, Attorney General
Re: Parallel Imports
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Letter to The Hon Robert McClelland, Attorney General
Re: Parallel Imports
From: The Australian Copyright Council
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July 2008

Letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from Jenny Darling, President Australian Literary Agents Association
Re: Parallel Imports
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Letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from Nick Earls
Re: Parallel Imports
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Letter to Bookseller & Publisher  from Garth Nix
Re: Parallel Imports
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>> Read a summary of the situation on The Australian's website.

May 2008

Submission to Mr Frank Sartor
Minister for Planning, Minister for Redfern Waterloo and Minister for the Arts
Re: Review of NSW Cultural Grants Program Report
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April 2008

Submission to Mr Simon Cordina, Assistant Secretary
Content, Programs and Regulation Branch
Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy
Re: Review of the Extension of Legal Deposit
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February 2008

Submission to Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Re: Authors in Priority Schools Pilot Project - Final Report
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January 2008

Submission to Kevin Rudd, Prime Minister and Julia Gillard, Minister for Education
Re: Support for teacher librarians.
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2007

October 2007

Submission to Arts NSW
Re: NSW Cultural Grants program review
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July 2007

Submission to Jackie Morris, Committee Secretary, Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Re: Inquiry into the Classification (Publications, Films and Computer Games) Amendment (Terrorist Material) Bill 2007
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June 2007

Submission to the Hon John Howard, Prime Minister
Re: Tax free status of awards for creators
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Submission to Senator the Hon. George Brandis
Re: Tax free status of awards for creators
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May 2007

Submission to Philip Ruddock, Attorney General
Re: Material that advocates terrorist acts discussion paper
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February 2007

Submission to Senator the Hon. Helen Coonan
Re: Communications Legislation (Content Services) Amendment Bill
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2006

October 2006

Submission to Senator Payne, Chair
Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Department of the Senate
Re:  Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 and related Regulations.
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Submission to Professor James Lahore, Chairman
Copyright Law review Committee
Submission on Fair use >> Read submission

Submission to Copyright Law Review Committee on Crown copyright
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