Media Advice: 18 August 2000
COMMITTEE VISITS VICTORIA
The Commonwealth House of Representatives Environment and Heritage is
seeking information about the impact of conservation measures imposed
on private landholders. The House Committee will visit Victoria next week
to gather evidence from landowners and land management authorities for
its inquiry.
The House Environment Committee will hold a public hearing on Tuesday,
22 August, commencing at 8.45 a.m. at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
The House Committee is seeking information and ideas on:
- how to decrease the financial burden on landholders of carrying out
conservation measures;
- legal and constitutional ways of ensuring that costs of public good
conservation are shared by all;
- how to distinguish measures that largely benefit the landholders themselves
from measures that largely bebefit the public at large, and how to cost
those measures.
At the public hearing the House Committee will take evidence from representatives
of primary producers and processors, land managers, and the Victorian
Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The House Committee will
also talk to landhoders in the western district of Victoria whose farming
enterprises have been affected by conservation regulations.
For media comment contact Ian Causley, House Environment Committee Chair,
telephone 02 6642 6356 (Grafton electorate office), 02 6277 4218 (Parliament
House office).
For more details on the public hearing Committee and for background
information, contact the Committee secretariat on 026277 4580 or House
of Representatives Media Adviser: Sally Webster (02) 6277 2063, 0401 143
724, sally.webster.reps@aph.gov.au
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