Submissions received by the Committee

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Retaining Federal Approval Powers) Bill 2012

Submissions received by the Committee

Sub No.

1Ms Joy Ringrose (PDF 95KB) 
2The United Bird Societies of South Australia Inc (PDF 864KB) 
3Ms Lois Katz (PDF 104KB) Attachment 1(PDF 822KB) Attachment 2(PDF 770KB) Attachment 3(PDF 807KB) Attachment 4(PDF 694KB) Attachment 5(PDF 194KB) 
4Mr Carlos Whiley (PDF 19KB) 
5Mr John Tedge (PDF 47KB) 
6Mr Allan McKay (PDF 40KB) 
7Mr Adrian Watkins (PDF 26KB) 
8Mr Peter Sainsbury (PDF 18KB) 
9Ms Eileen Whitehead (PDF 51KB) 
10Ms Mia Dalby-Ball (PDF 88KB) 
11Name Withheld (PDF 25KB) 
12Mr Adam Connell (PDF 35KB) 
13Ms Anne Kotzman (PDF 122KB) 
14Miss Claire Ogden (PDF 25KB) 
15Ms Dereka Ogden (PDF 99KB) 
16Ms Jenny Spragg (PDF 77KB) 
17Dr Lyndon DeVantier (PDF 75KB) 
18Dr Graeme Armstrong (PDF 51KB) 
19Mr Richard Stanford (PDF 92KB) 
20Mr Albert Mah (PDF 44KB) 
21Mr Ian Rudd (PDF 30KB) 
22Ms Karin Geradts (PDF 36KB) 
23Ms Nita Clifton (PDF 41KB) 
24Ms Pamela Rothfield (PDF 1331KB) 
25The Colong Foundation for Wilderness Ltd (PDF 314KB) 
Supplementary Submission(PDF 1758KB) 
26Mr Doug Campbell (PDF 62KB) 
27Blue Mountains Conservation Society Inc (PDF 104KB) 
29Ms Margeaux Chandler (PDF 307KB) 
30Doctors for the Environment Australia Incorporated (PDF 297KB) 
31Ms Juanita M Johnston (PDF 6KB) 
32Mr Raymond Cox (PDF 44KB) 
33Magnetic Island Community Development Association Inc (PDF 241KB) 
34Ms Nina Earl (PDF 186KB) 
35Mr Justin Smyrk (PDF 65KB) 
36Mr Russell Jones (PDF 103KB) 
37Jonathan Peter and Josephine Prowse (PDF 53KB) 
38Ms Lesley Hook, Birdlife Southern New South Wales (PDF 206KB) 
39Mr Hank Vandepol (PDF 37KB) 
40Mr Jean Dind (PDF 74KB) 
41Friends of Grasslands (PDF 92KB) 
42VicForests (PDF 2871KB) 
43Aldershot and District Against Mining (PDF 7KB) 
44Ms Ruby Rosenfield (PDF 323KB) 
45Kingston Conservation and Environment Coalition (PDF 233KB) 
46Humane Society International (PDF 98KB) 
47National Parks Association of NSW (PDF 170KB) 
48South East Australian Naturalists Association (SEANA) Inc (PDF 102KB) 
49BirdLife Northern Queensland (PDF 90KB) 
50Wellington Shire Council (PDF 948KB) 
51Mr Timothy Bidder (PDF 189KB) 
52Australian Koala Foundation (PDF 48KB) 
53Mr Peter Gillbank (PDF 24KB) 
54Mr Victor Hill (PDF 370KB) 
55Mr Kris Schmah (PDF 16KB) 
56Victorian Association of Forest Industries (PDF 446KB) 
57Mr Shawn Jarvey (PDF 54KB) 
58Ms Imelda Grant (PDF 35KB) 
59Latrobe City Council (PDF 229KB) 
60Fraser Coast Branch of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (PDF 87KB) 
61Australasian Wader Studies Group (PDF 108KB) 
62Ms Lenore Keough (PDF 59KB) 
63Friends of Shorebirds SE (PDF 39KB) 
64Ms Karen Davis (PDF 13KB) 
65Manduka Cooperative (PDF 29KB) 
66Name Withheld (PDF 28KB) 
67Ms Eve Plant (PDF 43KB) 
68Office of Giz Watson, MLC, Western Australia (PDF 462KB) 
69Mr Kenneth Brown (PDF 56KB) 
70Name Withheld (PDF 41KB) 
71Mr Richard Costin, and Annabelle Sandes, Kimberley Media (PDF 245KB) 
72Dr K. Vernon Bailey AOM (PDF 15KB) 
73Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Townsville Branch (PDF 260KB) 
74Dr Geralyn McCarron (PDF 233KB) 
75Mr David Arthur (PDF 211KB) 
76Ms Caroline Reid (PDF 14KB) 
77Mr Mike Rathbone (PDF 14KB) 
78Ms Janet Harwood (PDF 537KB) 
79Ms Lisa Nicholls (PDF 15KB) 
80Ms Kath O'Brien (PDF 14KB) 
81Name Withheld (PDF 21KB) 
82Ms Marion Shaw (PDF 5KB) 
83Pyrenees Shire Council (PDF 156KB) 
84Ms Kendall Lovett (PDF 33KB) 
85Nature Conservation Council of NSW (PDF 226KB) 
86Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland (PDF 250KB) 
87Logan and Albert Conservation Association (PDF 118KB) 
88Keppel and Fitzroy Delta Alliance (PDF 516KB) 
89North Queensland Conservation Council (PDF 95KB) 
90Australian Conservation Foundation (PDF 376KB) 
91Business Council of Australia (PDF 156KB) 
92Law Council of Australia (PDF 116KB) Attachment 1(PDF 158KB) 
93Wentworth Group of Conerned Scientists (PDF 11377KB) 
94WWF-Australia (PDF 246KB) 
95Economists at Large (PDF 107KB) 
96Birdlife Echuca (PDF 200KB) 
97Birds Queensland (PDF 3895KB) 
98Caldera Environment Centre (PDF 209KB) 
99Name Withheld (PDF 30KB) 
100Save the Mary River Coordinating Group Inc (PDF 248KB) 
101Ms Anna Bridle (PDF 171KB) 
102Minerals Council of Australia (PDF 111KB) 
103Professor Lee Godden and Professor Jacqueline Peel, Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne (PDF 202KB) 
104Australian Coal Association Limited (PDF 626KB) 
105Mr John Renowden (PDF 73KB) Attachment 1(PDF 470KB) 
106Australian Forests and Climate Alliance (PDF 74KB) 
107Conservation Council of South Australia (PDF 190KB) 
108Nature Conservation Society of South Australia (PDF 294KB) 
109BirdLife Australia (PDF 187KB) 
110Wide Bay Burnett Environment Council (PDF 499KB) 
111Australasian Bat Society Inc (PDF 311KB) 
112Lawyers for Forests (PDF 740KB) 
113Hume City Council (PDF 8853KB) 
114Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (PDF 427KB) 
115PGV Environmental (PDF 1290KB) 
116Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PDF 3745KB) 
117Anne Layton-Bennett and John Donnachy (PDF 69KB) 
118Conondale Range Committee (PDF 825KB) 
119BirdLife Southern Queensland and Protect the Bush Alliance (PDF 162KB) 
120Mr Dan Monceaux (PDF 75KB) 
121South East Forest Rescue (PDF 185KB) 
122Bimblebox Nature Refuge (PDF 40KB) 
123Central West Environment Council (PDF 133KB) 
124Ms Deedre Kabel (PDF 471KB) 
125Gecko-Gold Coast and Hinterland Environment Council Association Inc (PDF 365KB) 
126Australian Forest Products Association (PDF 201KB) 
127South East Region Conservation Alliance (SERCA) (PDF 178KB) 
128Australian Network of Environmental Defender's Offices (PDF 390KB) 
129Green Institute (PDF 147KB) 
130Victorian Farmers Federation (PDF 372KB) 
131Ms Monique Filet (PDF 42KB) 
132Name Withheld (PDF 63KB) 
133Prof Ralf Buckley (PDF 74KB) 
134Premier of Queensland (PDF 1659KB) 
135Mary River Catchment Coordinating Committee (PDF 477KB) 
136Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland, Gold Coast and Hinterland  (PDF 57KB) 
137Ms Juanita Johnston (PDF 15KB) 
138Ms Adele Maguire (PDF 39KB) 
139Confidential
140National Parks Australia Council (PDF 244KB) 
141Dr Chris McGrath (PDF 106KB) 
Letter from Professor Andrew McIntosh dated 1 February 2013(PDF 89KB) 
142Fraser Island Defenders Organisation (PDF 68KB) Attachment 1(PDF 36KB) Attachment 2(PDF 439KB) Attachment 3(PDF 88KB) 
143Name Withheld (PDF 40KB) 
144The Wilderness Society WA (PDF 60KB) 
145Confidential
146Professor John Quiggin (PDF 66KB) 
147Ms Alix Gibson (PDF 5KB) 
148Ms Amanda Rosenfeld (PDF 94KB) 
149Mr Brendan Doyle (PDF 88KB) 
150Dr Chris Johansen (PDF 136KB) 
151Mr Colin Rainbird (PDF 3KB) 
152Mr Craig Heading (PDF 114KB) 
153Ms Debra Edwards (PDF 91KB) 
154Ms Emma Thomas (PDF 104KB) 
155Mr Frank Di Mascolo (PDF 94KB) 
156Ms Helen Anderson (PDF 107KB) 
157Mr Ian Heath (PDF 103KB) 
158Mr James Bellis (PDF 91KB) 
159Mr James Crawford (PDF 92KB) 
160Mr James White (PDF 102KB) 
161Mr Jason Graham (PDF 4KB) 
162Ms Jenny Stevens (PDF 111KB) 
163Ms Jessica Larkman (PDF 17KB) 
164Ms Jodie Milton (PDF 93KB) 
165Ms Lara Murray (PDF 108KB) 
166Ms Lyn Prowse-Bishop (PDF 81KB) 
167Mr Mark Dowse (PDF 91KB) 
168Mr Mark Wren (PDF 102KB) 
169Ms Natalie Stanton (PDF 27KB) 
170Mr Raymond Dowling (PDF 89KB) 
171Mr Rob Harvey (PDF 7KB) 
172Mr Simon Rowell (PDF 94KB) 
173Ms Susan Morley (PDF 91KB) 
174Sustainable Business Australia (PDF 177KB) 
175Pacific Hydro Australia (PDF 73KB) 


Form Letters Received

1Form letter A - Received from the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre Inc; birdlife East Gippsland; Lesley Dalziel OAM; Judy and Tom Fenton; Bat Conservation and Rescue Qld. Inc.; Peter C Laws; H.O.P.E. Australia; Lorna Hobbs; The South Australian Ornithological Association Inc.; Dianne Emslie; Birdlife Mornington Peninsula; and Valerie La May(PDF 156KB) 
2Form letter B - Received from Heather Coombs; Gordon Curtis; Helga Hill; Sarah Moles; Richard Morrow; Susan Cooke; Mark Rich; and Kent Hutton(PDF 44KB) 

Answers to Questions on Notice

1North Queensland Conservation Council - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 117KB) 
2Wellington Shire Council - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 86KB) 
3Latrobe City Council - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 275KB) 
4Economists at Large - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 88KB) 
5Professor Lee Godden - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 312KB) 
6Minerals Council of Australia - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 15 February 2013)(PDF 103KB) 
7Business Council of Australia - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 1667KB) 
8Minerals Council of Australia - Answers to further written questions taken on notice (from public hearing, 15 February 2013)(PDF 100KB) 
9Australian Forrest Products Association - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 8 February 2013)(PDF 224KB) 
10Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists - Answers to written questions on notice (received 27 February 2013)(PDF 110KB) 
11Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities - Answers to questions taken on notice (from public hearing, Canberra, 15 February) and written questions on notice (received 8 March 2013)(PDF 188KB) 

For further information, contact:

Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Environment and Communications
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia

Phone:+61 2 6277 3526
Fax:+61 2 6277 5818
Email:ec.sen@aph.gov.au