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Our Community Plans
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With the help of the community, we've developed a Natural Resource Management Plan, Protecting our Assets, for the Desert Channels Queensland region.
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This is the plan of the Desert Channels Queensland community, the issues they have identified as being important, and the actions they will take to sustainably manage the natural resources of their region.
The issues and actions identified in the plan carry across into our Regional Investment Strategy, a document that guides the investment by the Australian and State governments, through the Natural Heritage Trust, in the sustainable management of the region's natural resources. The planning process was a multi stage process that maintained community involvement throughout. 1. Community Information Paper (CIP) and a 4 page Summary released in September 2003. 2. A blanket advertising coverage and a pamphlet mail-out to every household in the region. 3. 18 meetings were held around the region, in October, to raise awareness of the planning process and to give the community an opportunity to raise local issues. They were held at Innamincka, Eromanga, Yaraka, Windorah, Stonehenge, Longreach, Winton, Boulia, Bedourie, Birdsville, Dajarra, Urandangi, Camooweal, Blackall, Barcaldine, Aramac, Muttaburra, and Kooroorinya. 4. A newsletter to all meeting participants so people could get a perspective of local differences and an overall, regional view of the issues. 5. A workshop in February 2004 at Longreach was attended by representatives from the community meetings along with relevant technical advisors and Government agency people. A range of natural resource management actions were developed and formed the basis of our draft Natural Resource Management Plan. 6. The draft plan was put together from material gathered in the previous five stages. It was presented to the community at a number of meetings around the region during June 2004 and was open for comment until the end of July. 7. Community and government feedback was incorporated into the plan. 8. The final plan was then sent to the Commonwealth/State Joint Steering Committee (JSC) for endorsement. It remains a living document, open to change as required. 9. In addition to the plan, a regional investment strategy, Powering our Actions has been developed. It details the investments required over the next 3 years to implement the actions identified in the plan and was submitted to the Commonwealth/State Joint Steering Committee in early 2005 and endorsed by it and the relevant Ministers. Contact us to find out more about the Plan and the regional process. Key stakeholders in this process include:
The six highest-ranking issues were (in order of priority):
Other issues identified by the community were (in alphabetical order):
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