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Rural Water Resource Usage

On 21 October 2002, the Senate referred the following matter to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by the last sitting day in 2003. This date has now been extended to 12 August 2004.

The Terms of Reference for this inquiry are:

1. current rural industry based water resource usage;

2. options for optimising water resource usage for sustainable agriculture;

3. other matters of relevance that the committee may wish to inquire into and comment on that may arise during the course of the inquiry, including the findings and recommendations from other inquiries relevant to any of the issues in these terms of reference.

4. the Committee to make its report to the Senate on this matter by the last sitting day in 2003.

Public Hearings

Submissions

The closing date for the lodgement of submissions is 14 March 2003.

Submissions received and authorised by the committee as at 22 June 2004

Notes to assist in the preparation of submissions (Word 26KB)

Submissions become Committee documents and are only made public after a decision by the Committee. Unauthorised release of submissions is not covered by parliamentary privilege.

Report - Tabled 12 August 2004

Government Response

For further information

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