Images: Sylvia Cartwright Receives GM Report

Friday, 27 July 2001, 4:51 pm
Article: Guy MacGibbon

The Governor-General, the Honourable Dame Silvia Cartwright, receives the report of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification from the commission chair, the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, at Government House

Dame Sylvia Cartwright, center with report, and the members of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification

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