Culture, Media and Sport - Minutes of Evidence [Back to Report]

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Here you can browse the Minutes of Evidence which were ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 May 2000.

WEDNESDAY 10 MAY 2000

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Members present:

Mr Gerald Kaufman, in the Chair

Mr David Faber Mr Ronnie Fearn Mr Christopher Fraser Mrs Llin Golding Mr Alan Keen

Mr John Maxton Mrs Diana Organ Ms Claire Ward Derek Wyatt

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CONTENTS

Memorandum submitted by the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (FAIRA)

Attachment A - ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMISSION

Attachment C - Summary of Australian Government legislation and policy relating to cultural property in overseas collections

Examination of Witness

MR LYNDON ORMOND-PARKER, Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action, examined.

Question Numbers:

283 - 299

300 - 321

Memorandum submitted by the Museums Standing Advisory Group on Repatriation and Related Cultural Property Issues

Examination of Witnesses

DR NEIL CHALMERS, Chairman, the Museums Standing Advisory Group on Repatriation and Director of the Natural History Museum, MR LEN POLE, Curator of Ethnography, Exeter City Museum and Art Gallery and Chairman of the Museum Ethnographers' Group, and MS SHARON PAGE, Head of Secretariat, Tate Gallery and member of National Museum Directors' Conference Working Group on Spoliation of Art during the Holocaust and World War II, the Museums Standing Advisory Group on Repatriation examined.

322 - 339

340 - 359

360 - 368

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Prepared 6 June 2000