Footnotes

Chapter 1 - Referral to the committee

[1]        Review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975, Commonwealth of Australia, 2006.

[2]        GBRMP Act, s. 10.

[3]        GBRMP Act, s. 22.

[4]        GBRMPA Review, p. 9.

[5]        GBRMPA Review, p. 9.

[6]        GBRMPA Review, pp 4-5.

[7]        Correspondence from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, received 8 June 2007, p. 1.

[8]        GBRMPA Review, pp 5-6.

[9]        GBRMPA Review, pp 167-172.

[10]      The Hon. Mr Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, House of Representatives Hansard, 28 March 2007, p. 6. See also GBRMPA Review, pp 172-175.

[11]      Mr John Uhrig AC, Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders, June 2003.

[12]      Uhrig Review, pp 10-12.

[13]      Uhrig Review, pp 10-12.

[14]      Uhrig Review, p. 50.

[15]      See GBRMPA Review, recommendation 9, pp 154, 169.

[16]      GBRMP Act, s. 10; item 14 of Schedule 1 and Explanatory Memorandum, pp 2 and 5.

[17]      Item 17 of Schedule 1; see also GBRMPA Review, recommendation 17, pp 170-171.

[18]      Item 32 of Schedule 1: proposed s. 54. Note that existing annual reporting requirements would be retained.

[19]      Item 28 of Schedule 1.

[20]      Item 28 of Schedule 1 – proposed s. 37.

[21]      Item 27 of Schedule 1 – proposed ss. 34 and 35.

[22]      Item 19 of Schedule 1.

Chapter 2 - Introduction

[1]        Item 14 of Schedule 1.

[2]        GBRMPA Review, p. 169; see also Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1.

[3]        See, for example, Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 34, p. 2; Mr Simon Towle, Submission 8, p. 1; Australian Conservation Foundation, Submission 3, p. 2.

[4]        Submission 2, p. 1.

[5]        Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1; see also GBRMPA Review, p. 149.

[6]        Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1; see also Uhrig Review, p. 50.

[7]        p. 150; see also Uhrig Review, pp 98–99.

[8]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 5.

[9]        As required by subsection 10(6) of the Act.

[10]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1.

[11]      Submission 3, p. 2.

[12]      GBRMPA Review, p. 25.

[13]      See for example, GBRMPA Review, p. 26 (map 7); also the National Native Title Tribunal, http://www.nntt.gov.au/publications/QLD_RATSIB.html and http://www.nntt.gov.au/publications/data/files/Determinations_A4.pdf (accessed 29 May 2007). It appears that to date there have been no successful native title determinations over any areas within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Note also that there are other forms of Indigenous land tenure, as well as Indigenous Land Use Agreements in the region.

[14]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 2.

[15]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 2.

[16]      GBRMPA Act, s. 10.

[17]      GBRMPA Review, p. 150 and recommendation 6(c).

[18]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, pp 3–4.

[19]      GBRMPA Review, p. 119.

[20]      GBRMPA Review, pp 157 and 172.

[21]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, pp 2–3.

[22]      Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, Submission 34, p. 2.

[23]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 5.

[24]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 5.

[25]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, p. 5.

[26]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, pp 4–5.

[27]      Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Standing Committee, Conserving Australia: Australia's national parks, conservation reserves and marine protected areas, April 2007, Chapter 9.

[28]      Item 18 of Schedule 1.

[29]      Submission 1, p. [1].

[30]      Parliamentary Library, "Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment Bill 2007", Bills Digest No. 134 2006-07, 7 May 2007, p. 5.

[31]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, p. 8.

[32]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, p. 8.

[33]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, p. 9.

[34]      GBRMPA Review, p. 129.

[35]      The Hon. Mr Malcolm Turnbull, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, House of Representatives Hansard, 28 March 2007, p. 6.

[36]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, pp 6-7.

[37]      Proposed subsection 54(4).

[38]      Submission 1, p. [1].

[39]      Bills Digest, p. 10.

[40]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, received 5 June 2007, p. 7.

Australian Democrats and Australian Greens - Dissenting report

[1]        Review of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975, Commonwealth of Australia, 2006.

[2]        Correspondence from the Department of the Environment and Water Resources, received 8 June 2007, p. 1.

[3]        Item 14 of Schedule 1: proposed removal of paragraph 10(1)(b) of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975.

[4]        See, for example, correspondence from Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, 6 June 2007, p. 2; correspondence from Mr Simon Towle, 31 May 2007, p. 1; Australian Conservation Foundation, Submission 3, p. 2.

[5]        GBRMPA Review, p. 25.

[6]        WWF, Submission 2, p. 1.

[7]        Correspondence from Mr Simon Towle, 31 May 2007, p. 1.

[8]        See also Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 2.

[9]        Correspondence from Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, 6 June 2007, p. 1; see also correspondence from Australian Conservation Foundation, 4 June 2007, p. 1.

[10]      Australian Conservation Foundation, Submission 3, p. 2; [10] see also correspondence from Dr Dermot Smyth, 2 June 2007, p. 2.

[11]      Resource Assessment Commission, Coastal Zone Inquiry - Final Report, November 1993.

[12]      Correspondence from Dr Dermot Smyth, 2 June 2007, p. 2.

[13]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1; see also GBRMPA Review, p. 149 and Uhrig Review, p. 50.

[14]      Australian Conservation Foundation, Submission 3, p. 2.

[15]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1; see also GBRMPA Review, p. 149 and Uhrig Review, p. 50.

[16]      Australian Conservation Foundation, Submission 3, p. 2.

[17]      Correspondence from Dr Dermot Smyth, 2 June 2007, p. 2.

[18]      NAILSMA, Submission 6, p. 2.

[19]      GBRMPA Act, s. 10.

[20]      Quoted in Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 1.

[21]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 2.

[22]      GBRMPA Review, p. 157 and also recommendation 18(b), p. 172.

[23]      Cape York Land Council, Submission 5, p. 2.

[24]      Cape York Land Council, Submission 5, p. 2.

[25]      Correspondence from Girringun Aboriginal Corporation, 6 June 2007, p. 2.

[26]      GBRMPA Review, p. 130; see also Bills Digest, p. 7; and Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, p. 4.

[27]      Department of the Environment and Water Resources, answers to questions on notice, 5 June 2007, pp 2-3.

[28]      Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Standing Committee, Conserving Australia: Australia's national parks, conservation reserves and marine protected areas, April 2007, Chapter 9.