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Media Release - Minister's Office Sydney: 9 February 2005 GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE TO WORK TO GET NATIVE VEGETATION RIGHT NSW Minister for Infrastructure, Planning & Natural Resources, Craig Knowles, has called on farmers and conservationists to continue to work with Government to ensure the new Native Vegetation legislation is a success.
“Anyone who has been involved in building the legislation, the regulation and the tools such as the Property Vegetation Plan developer knows my position: we are committed to getting this right, and we’ll continue to work until we do.
“Exhibition of the regulation has only just closed and we now have around 2,000 submissions to work through.
“Equally importantly, we’ve only just completed over a hundred trials of the PVP developer.
“The whole reason of going through that sort of comprehensive consultation and testing has been to identify where the problems might lie.
“But let’s not ‘throw the baby out with the bath water’.
“These reforms offer exactly what farmers and conservationists alike have told us they want: certainty, long-term security and the removal of the dead hand of Government that has previously plagued effective native vegetation management.
“If anyone is thinking that we’ve finished this process they’re wrong.
“I’ve asked Ian Sinclair – who has been involved in this process from day one – to oversee the analysis of the results of the PVP trials and the submissions.
“This process will tell us clearly where we’ve got it right, and where we can improve either the policy, or its technical application.
“Our native vegetation reforms have already helped unlock $436 million from the coffers in Canberra and Macquarie Street for on-farm works.
“And they have the potential to provide 15-years of certainty unfettered by any changes to the Threatened Species Lists or planning instruments.
“That’s what farmers want, and its what these reforms can deliver so long as we keep working together to make them practical and workable.”.
© NSW Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources
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