What has happened to the transcripts of the public hearings of the former Bundaberg Hospital Commission of Inquiry and the public exhibits tendered to that Inquiry?
The new Inquiry has full access to all material and evidence from the former Bundaberg Hospital Commission of Inquiry. On 8 September 2005, at a preliminary hearing of the new Inquiry, after hearing arguments from relevant legal representatives, Commissioner Davies AO ordered that the whole of the evidence admitted in the former Bundaberg Hospital Commission of Inquiry, other than the evidence of Mr Leck and Dr Keating, and any documents tendered as exhibits during the evidence of either of them, be admitted as evidence in the Queensland Public Hospitals Commission of Inquiry. Further, Commissioner Davies also gave the legal representatives an opportunity to make further submissions in writing by 10 o’clock Thursday 15 September 2005 directed to the question as to whether some part of the evidence which was admitted should be expunged from the record for any reason. No such submissions were made.
