At the Office of Great Barrier Reef (OGBR) meeting to discuss reef regulations applicable to the grazing industry are (from left): Exevale Station grazier Darcy O’Loughlin, Director Scott Robinson, and Rae Schecht OGBR, Landholders Driving Change (LDC) project panel member Buster O’Loughlin and LDC’s Lisa Hutchinson
Have a say on reef regulations
THE aim of the LDC’s Policy Engagement Activity Area is to facilitate better landholder engagement in relevant policy development and implementation in the Bowen, Broken and Bogie (BBB) catchments. One of those policies is the reef regulations.
Last year, following consultation with graziers in the BBB, the LDC submitted a response to the draft regulations on behalf of the grazier representatives on the project panel.
One concern expressed by graziers in the BBB, and those who sit on the LDC project panel, was that the proposed 12-month implementation time frame of the reef regulations was unreasonable.
As a result, the standards will be staged across reef regions during three years, according to water quality management priorities. OGBR representatives visited Bowen last year to inform the grazing community of this amendment.
Last month representatives from the Queensland Government’s Office of the Great Barrier Reef and Department of Environment and Science and local graziers met in Bowen to discuss the revised grazing minimum standards that will apply to commercially productive beef cattle grazing properties in the Great Barrier Reef catchment: It was a productive discussion with graziers providing feedback on the content.
For further information on the reef regulations: http://bit.ly/2TnkiDm
Beef Central published this article about the reef regulations on its website on 20 March 2019. It features comments from AgForce CEO Michael Guerin, Queensland Food Future president and grazier Josie Angus and Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Leeanne Enoch. http://bit.ly/2HKyjsC
Photos by Gill Jurgens, The Third House, Bowen
Tabletop Station grazier and Landholders Driving Change project panel member Tom Murphy (left) with Department of Environment and Science representative Dominic Henderson
Landholders Driving Change MERI Officer Barb Colls and Office of the Great Barrier Reef Director Scott Robinson share a joke
Tabletop Station grazier and Landholders Driving Change project panel member Tom Murphy chats to LDC Senior Grazing Support Officer Brendan Smith
Graziers, officials from the Department of Environment and Science, Landholders Driving Change team members at a meeting convened at the Grandview Hotel, Bowen, by the Office of the Great Barrier Reef to discuss the minimum standards for the grazing industry in the Great Barrier Reef catchment
Pictured at the Office of Great Barrier Reef meeting to disucss reef regulations are (from left): Department of Environment and Science representative Dominic Henderson, Glencoe Station grazier and Landholders Driving Change (LDC) project panel member Bob Harris, LDC’s Lisa Hutchinson and Tabletop Station grazier Tom Murphy
Pictured at the office of Great Barrier Reef meeting to discuss reef regulations are (from left): Rhys Watson Department of Environment and Science, Mt Pleasant Station grazier and Landholders Driving Change (LDC) project panel member Garlone Moulin, LDC MERI Officer Barb Colls, Glenalpine Station grazier Leanne O’Sullivan and Glenlea Downs grazier Peter Anderson
Small talk at the Grandview Hotel in Bowen during the Office of Great Barrier Reef’s meeting to discuss reef regulations applicable to the grazing industry
Landholders Driving Change project Land Management Coordinator Rodger Walker concentrates during the Office of Great Barrier Reef meeting to discuss reef regulations
Graziers Leanne O’Sullivan (Glenalpine) and Peter Anderson (Glenlea Downs)
Mt Pleasant grazier and project panel member Garlone Moulin makes a point
COLLECTIVE THINKING… Working with sheets of butcher’s paper are (from left): Glenlea Downs grazier Peter Anderson, Mt Pleasant Station grazier and Landholders Driving Change project panel member Garlone Mouline, Glenalpine Station grazier Leanne O’Sullivan and Department of Environment and Science representative Leigh Smith