Inquiry into catchment management
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Media Advice: 11 October 1999
Catchment management inquiry seeks views of murray-darling basin
community
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage
will hold a public hearing for its inquiry into catchment management this
Wednesday, 13 October in Canberra.
The Community Advisory Committee to the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial
Council will be giving evidence at the hearing.
The issues covered by the catchment management inquiry 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 public hearing will commence at 11:10am, 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 4580.
For further information on the inquiry contact the chair, Hon. Ian Causley
MP, on 02 6277 4218 (Parliament House) or 02 6642 6356 (electorate).
Secretariat 11 October 1999
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