Page 4919 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 11 December 1990
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MR SPEAKER: Order! Mr Moore, your theatrics are not welcome here. Desist. I warn you.
DR KINLOCH: I have listened carefully to Mr Moore's question and, of course, I will most considerately and thoughtfully take it on notice and talk to the people with whom I have already consulted. I will, in due course, give Mr Moore an answer to his question, but I would welcome the question in writing.
Land Care
MR JENSEN: Mr Speaker, my question is to the Minister for Finance and Urban Services. I presume that the Minister is aware that 1990 and the following decade have been declared the era and decade of land care. I understand that today the Minister signed and presented land care awards for the ACT. I wonder whether the Minister is able to indicate to the Assembly what the awards were for and what other programs the Government has been involved in as part of its participation in the era and decade of land care.
MR DUBY: I thank Mr Jensen for the question. The ACT is participating in the national land care awards and today I presented the ACT awards to the various recipients. The purpose of the awards is to encourage and stimulate public awareness of the importance of land care and the adoption of land care principles. The awards were made under eight categories, ranging from land care primary producer, through community land care group, through media, through research, and through business and education. The winners, of course, will be eligible for nomination to the national land care awards to be presented in the Great Hall of the Parliament by the Prime Minister.
As members may be aware, this is the decade of land care, and the Federal Government has made the issue a high priority for Australia. This Government has a number of programs in place which are aimed at rectifying land degradation and raising community awareness of the importance of land care, and I remind members of this Government's commitment of $1.25m over the next decade for land care purposes. The Government is actively involved in regional programs such as the New South Wales total catchment management scheme. The ACT is also a member of the Standing Committee on Soil Conservation and several national soil conservation working parties. The ACT also manages the Lake Burley Griffin catchment protection scheme within New South Wales.
The Government is actively participating in the national soil conservation program. The projects under this scheme include a land capability survey of rural land and the design of a hands-on land care display at the National Science and Technology Centre. Tree planting, of course,
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