What is the Government doing to improve natural resource management and how are Aboriginal communities involved?
Mr MILTON ORKOPOULOS: The Iemma Government is getting on with the job of implementing a new direction in natural resource management. We have introduced new native vegetation regulations and a raft of new measures following extensive consultation with all stakeholders, including the farming community, conservationists and Aboriginal communities. The system of property vegetation plans introduced under the new system last December is already working well, with more than 60 approvals lodged and another 74 awaiting sign-off with landholders. Mr SPEAKER: Order! The Leader of The Nationals will cease interjecting. Mr MILTON ORKOPOULOS: Catchment management authorities have been set up around the State, giving local people a direct say on local issues. That is the cornerstone of government policy—giving a voice to the people of regional and rural New South Wales and it is indicative of the new direction the Government is taking. But we are not content to rest on our achievements in this impo
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