Attention:
News Editors/Chiefs of Staff
Transport/Health and Welfare Writers
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Transport and Regional Services, John Anderson, will launch ATSBs annual review covering its first year of operation on Monday 9 October 2000 at Parliament House.
The ATSB Annual Review 2000 documents ATSBs achievements and safety activities from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 and provides a statistical overview of safety in the transport modes of road, rail, aviation and marine.
Producing the Annual Review is in accordance with a recommendation of the McGrath report into BASI released in August 1999 to improve the transparency and accountability of the Bureau. Progress in addressing all of the recommendations in the McGrath report is presented at Appendix 10 of the Annual Review.
Time: 4:30 to 5pm, Monday 9 October 2000
(N.B. Television crews are invited to film the short address by Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson at 4.30pm)
Place: Second floor, Mural Hall, Parliament House, Canberra.
You are invited to send a journalist, photographer/TV crew.
Media Contact: Brett Bayly: (02) 6274 7552
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