View the report as separate downloadable parts:

Chair's Foreword

Executive Summary

Membership of the Committee

  Committee Secretariat

Terms of Reference

Abbreviations

List of Recommendations

1. Introduction

  About the inquiry
  Report structure

2. Flying-foxes: background and impacts

  Flying-foxes in Australia
  Nationally protected flying-foxes
  Ecology, population size and distribution
  Impacts: social, economic, environmental and health
  Committee comments

3. Regulation of protection and management actions

  Current Commonwealth regulation
  Current state regulation
  Effectiveness of the current regulatory framework
  Current management actions: does ‘best practice’ exist?
  Committee comments

4. Options for reform

  National coordination of management actions
  Funding for priority actions, research and data
  Decision framework for councils and other managing bodies
  Public and community education
  Committee comments

A. List of submissions

B. List of exhibits

C. Roundtable public hearing