List of Consultations

Focus Groups
Focus Groups were conducted in the winter of 1999 in all capital cities, in two additional coastal cities and in inland towns. Determinants for the selection of the focus group participants included, two demographics (15 -35 and 35 - 55), labour force status, level of education and income.

There were also two Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander focus groups held.

Youth
Apart from the Focus Group consultations, there were two specific youth consultations. The first took place in June 1999 during the Rotary sponsored visit to Canberra of selected high school students from all over the country. The students were taken on a tour of the Parliamentary Zone, the Central National Area and the Regatta Point Exhibition. At Regatta point Authority staff led a seminar where the students broke into groups and developed their ideas for the Parliamentary Zone.

The second youth consultation took place in one of the Old Parliament House during the Prime Minister’s National Youth Forum. At both consultations very specific and insightful ideas emerged for further testing in the review itself.

Stakeholders
To complete the initial program of consultation the key Parliamentary Zone stakeholders were briefed at separate meetings. The agencies and organisation consulted included occupants of the Zone, other national institutions, parliamentary bodies and the chief heritage, cultural and indigenous organisations. These meetings discussed the project and its ramifications in detail and served to create an awareness of the review in the stakeholder community on the one hand, and an awareness of stakeholder concerns on the other.

The following were consulted:

• The Australian Centre for Cultural Diversity Research and Development (26/599)
• The National Library of Australia (7/7/99)
• National Gallery of Australia (7/7/99)
• National Science and Technology Centre (12/7/99)
• National Archives of Australia (14/7/99)
• Old Parliament House (20/7/99)
• High Court of Australia (11/8/99)
• Screensound Australia (12/8/99)
• Australian Electoral Commission (13/7/99)
• Joint House Department (19/8/99)
• National Museum of Australia (19/8/99)
• Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (PM&C) (20/8/99)
• Australian War Memorial (23/8/99)
• ACT Council for Reconciliation (23/8/99)
• National Gallery of Australia Council (25/8/99)
• Canberra Tourism and Events Corporation (26/8/99)
• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) (31/8/99)
• Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories (1/9/99)
• Don and Ruth Bell (Ngunnawal elders) (7/9/99)
• Australian Heritage Commission (9/9/99)
• National Youth Roundtable (26/9/99)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)(30/9/99)
• National Trust, ACT (30/9/99)
• ACT for Trees (14/10/99)
• Department of Administration and Finance (26/10/99)
• Australian Centre for Cultural Studies (29/8/99)
• Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (15/12/99)
• ACT Department of Urban Services