Tasmania:
Discussion Paper on a Wetlands Strategy:

The Tasmanian State Government has released a discussion paper foreshadowing the development of a State Wetlands Strategy. The paper may be obtained at

http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/wetlands_discussion.html

The deadline for comment is 30 October 2000. The paper is well researched and presented. Possible avenues for improvement may include considerations of:

  1. intrinsic values
  2. cumulative effects of catchment development
  3. integration of ICM and landuse planning mechanisms
  4. development of representative freshwater reserves, and
  5. the use of the "no net loss" principle.

If you've got MS Word 97, check out my submission, expanding on these points. If you haven't got Word 97, email me (see home page) and maybe I can send you an RTF file.