POLICY ENGAGEMENT
Discussing reef regulations are (from left) Rhys Watson Department of Environment and Science, Mt Pleasant Station grazier and LDC project panel
member Garlone Moulin, LDC MERI officer Barb Colls, Glenalpine Station grazie Leanne O’Sullivan and Peter Anderson, of Glenlea Downs.
BRINGING GRAZIERS
A N D G O V E R N M E N T T O T H E TA B L E
The Policy Engagement program
facilitates landholder engagement
in policy development, review, and
implementation relevant in the Bowen
Broken, Bogie (BBB) catchment, near
Bowen and Collinsville.
It supports graziers to better
understand regulatory requirements,
and works with the government to
explore opportunities for reviewing how
regulations and policies operate.
This program area also supports
graziers to comment on proposed
regulations during public consultation
opportunities, and coordinates
engagement between landholders and
government on policy and regulatory
issues.
REEF REGULATIONS
BBB graziers had significant and
meaningful input in the design of the
draft reef regulations before they were
passed as law in September 2019 (The
Environmental Protection (Great Barrier
Reef Protection Measures) and Other
Legislation Amendment Bill 2019).
This input delivered results:
Exevale Station graziers Darcy O’Loughlin, left, and Buster O’Loughlin second right,
with Scott Robinson and Rae Schecht, of the Office of the G eat Barrier Reef (OGBR).
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• The original 12-month
implementation time-frame to be
staged over three years.
• Graziers’ desire to see compliance
effort focus on maintaining land
that is in good or fair condition;
and implementing measures to
improve land in poor or degraded
condition, was incorporated into
the minimum grazing standards.
• Graziers’ request that the guidance
material acknowledge that not
all land and soil types responded