Tim Bavinton, Executive Director, Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT, Canberra, ACT

Associate Professor David Templeton, Clincal Services Manager and Senior Staff Specialist, HARP Unit, Sydney

Minister Andrew Barr, ACT Chief Minister

Dr Anthony Hobbs is the Acting Chief Medical Officer for the Department of Health and will be speaking on behalf of Senator Dean Smith, is the Senator for Western Australia, Government Deputy Whip in the Senate, Chair of the Parliamentary Liaison Group for HIV/AIDS, Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections

Kit Fairley has been the Director of Melbourne Sexual Health Centre since 2001. He has an appointment at Monash University as Professor of Public Health. His research interests are the control of STIs.

In 1972, I became a registered nurse and used my qualifications to work in communities such as Alice Springs, Palm Island, remote Western Australia and South Australia. I was a volunteer member of the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health service in 1974, and worked as a volunteer Registered Nurse with two volunteer Doctors. Later I became a registered midwife and worked with the Remote Emergency Nursing Services, which took me all over remote Australia delivering babies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with no benefits of modern technology.

Dr. Ayden Scheim is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Public Health at the University of California San Diego. For almost 15 years, he has worked to enhance HIV prevention for transgender communities through epidemiologic and social scientific research, health promotion, program development, and advocacy.