Study Tours

Members of the PGPD participate in appropriate international study tours, which present opportunities to bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the work of individual MPs as well as the PGPD as a whole.

2009

• SPRINT Initiative(Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme in Crisis and Post-Crisis Situations in East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific) study tour to Philippines, 6-11 December 2009. Attended by Senator Anne McEwen. Click here for Senator McEwen's speech in the Senate about SPRINT and her visit to the Philippines.

• GAVI (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations) Partners Forum and Study Tour to Vietnam, 15-20 November 2009. Attended by Hon John Pandazopoulos MP (Victorian State Parliament, ALP) and arrangd by the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development.

• New Zealand Parliamentarians' Group on Population and Development study tour to Papua New Guniea; 8-15 April 2006. Attended by Duncan Kerr MP.
  • Tour summary
  • Report
  • Photos
    
    
• World Bank study tour to Vietnam; March 21-24, 2005. Attended by Senator Trish Crossin.
• Report
• Press release 25 March 2005 "Parliamentarians Praise Success Story Of Aid And Development"

• Study Tour to Philippines organised by Australian Reproductive Health Alliance; July 2003. Attended by Kelly Hoare MP, Michael Johnson MP, Harry Quick MP, the Hon. Sandra Kanck MLC (SA), Bernie Masters MLA (WA) & John Hyde MLA (WA).

  • Study Tour report
  • "Reproductive Health on the Right Track in the Philippines" - media release by tour group, 30 July 2003
  • "Quite a reception" by Rina Jimenez-David, Philippine Inquirer
  • Speech in the House of Representatives by tour leader Michael Johnson MP, 19 August 2003
  • Speech in the Legislative Assembly (Western Australian Parliament) by John Hyde MP, 9 September 2003