Media Advice: 17 September 1999
First public hearing for catchment management inquiry
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage
will hold the first public hearing for its inquiry into catchment management
this Monday, 20 September in Canberra.
The issues the committee is looking at include the value of a catchment
approach to environmental management, best practice methods of achieving
catchment health and environmental sustainability, and the role of governments,
the private sector and the community in catchment management.
The following organisations will be giving evidence:
- Department of the Environment and Heritage
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia
- Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (ICAM), Australian
National University; and
- Australian Association for Natural Resource Management.
The public hearing will commence at 9:00am, in Committee Room
1 R 3, Parliament House, Canberra. More details of the hearing program.
For additional information, contact the committee
secretariat on 02 6277 4500.
For further information on the inquiry contact the chairman, Hon. Ian Causley
MP, on 02 6277 4218 (Parliament House) or 02 6642 6356 (electorate).
Secretariat 17 September 1999
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