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National Planning Committee No. 2: Being an abstract of the proceedings and other particulars relating to the National Planning Committee
No full textPlan of Canberra [cartographic material].
No full textAlso available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn4657014. Blueline cadastral wall map of Canberra, including section and lot numbers. Proposed suburbs, roads and lake also shown. Relief shown by spot heights
The National Resources Committee and the planning boards of 47 states.
No full text"February, 1937."The National Resources Committee And The Planning Boards Of 47 States -- The National Resources Committee -- Status Of State Planning January 1937
Science, Politics, and U.S. Forest Law: The Battle over the Forest Service Planning Rule
No full textThis paper reviews the battles over the Forest Service planning rule that culminated in the November 2000 revising of the regulations implementing the National Forest Management Act. In a departure froj the agency’s emphasis on multiple use, the rule established ecological sustainability as the key objective guiding planning for the national forests. The supporting material explicitly states that “it is based on the recommendation of an eminent committee of scientists.” This pape5r examines the Committee of Scientists and the NFMA rule as a case study in the relation between science and politics in the development and implementation of statutory standards for management of the National Forest System. The conclusion considerations the broader question of whether the Committee and Forest Service overstepped their appropriate roles in promoting what is essentially a new statutory mandate.Forest Service, planning, National Forest Management Act, Committee of Scientists, multiple use, sustainability
Select Committee on Wind Turbines final report
No full textThe committee recommends the Commonwealth Government create an Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Industrial Sound responsible for providing research and advice to the Minister for the Environment on the impact on human health of audible noise (including low frequency) and infrasound from wind turbines.
Recommendation 1: final
6.5 The committee recommends that an Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Industrial Sound (IESC) be established by law, through provisions similar to those which provide for the Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development.
6.6 The provisions establishing the IESC on Industrial Sound should state that the Scientific Committee must conduct \u27independent, multi-disciplinary research into the adverse impacts and risks to individual and community health and wellbeing associated with wind turbine projects and any other industrial projects which emit sound and vibration energy\u27
Recommended from our members
[Invitation to join the National March on Washington]
No full textInvitation to join a March on Washington with an image of the U.S. Capitol Building. Printed on the invitation are the words, "Join 1,000,000 Gays for the National March on Washington, October 14. July 9, August 13, September 10." Printed on the pamphlet verso is an explanation of how to support the march and the committee planning it, including an explanation about Harvey Milk's involvement planning the march before his assassination
Museums in Australia 1975
No full textThis 1975 report, commonly known as the \u27Pigott Report\u27, helped spur the creation of the National Museum of Australia in 1980 with the passing of the National Museum of Australia Act.There had been plans to establish a national museum since Federation, but with world wars, depression, and limited political interest, little action had been taken.However, in April 1974 the Whitlam government established a Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections.The Committee of Inquiry’s Terms of Reference were:(i) to advise on the scope, objectives and functions of an Australia Institute to develop, co-ordinate and foster collections, research and displays of historical, cultural and scientific material of national significance, giving particular attention to its relationship with Government and other institutions.(ii) to recommend steps to establish such an institute;(iii) in relation to the Australian Government’s direct field of responsibility and interest, to recommend measures which should be taken in the immediate future to:(a) improve collection and conservation facilities for national material, with particular attention to research needs and training;(b) ensure effective co-ordination of the Australian Government’s activities in this field;(c) institute new developments and institutions, with particular attention to the establishment of a national museum of history in Canberra;(iv) to recommend longer-term measures in the field of museums and collections, with particular attention to the Australian Government’s role in relation to state, local government, and institutional authorities.The committee made several recommendations, most notably the establishment of a national museum in Canberra. However, several of its recommendations were not followed up, such as the creation of an \u27Australians Museum Commission.\u27At the same time a Planning Committee on the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia was created, to inquire into the planned establishment of a \u27Gallery of Aboriginal Australia\u27. The two reports were published together in this one document.The Committee of Inquiry on Museums and National Collections was chaired by P. H. Pigott and included G. N. Blainey, R. W. Boswel,l Mrs A. Clayton, D. J. Mulvaney, F. H, Talbot, D. F. Waterhouse, F. J. Waters and E. E. Payne.The Planning Committee on the Gallery of Aboriginal Australia was chaired by D. J. Mulvaney and included K. Colbung, R. Edwards, J. Gwadbu, P. K. Lauer, D. R. Moore, H. Parker, D. Roughsey, W. E. H. Stanner, P. J. Ucko, and M. Valadian
National water planning report card 2013
No full textProvides a summary of the status of water plans across Australia.
Executive Summary
This National Water Planning Report Card 2013 follows the first baseline assessment undertaken in 2011. It provides a consolidated summary of the progress of water planning across Australia against an evaluation framework based on key elements of the National Water Initiative (NWI) and its associated Water Planning Guidelines.
Under Australia’s constitutional arrangements, state and territory governments are largely responsible for water resource management and they develop water plans at varying scales. Water plans may combine multiple catchments or they may deal with a single surface or groundwater resource, depending on specific circumstances. Water plans seek to manage water resources sustainably, under changing pressures, to maintain the future viability of the resources and all consumptive and non-consumptive uses that depend on them.
This report does not compare state and territory water planning frameworks against each other nor does it advocate a particular water planning model. Rather, it seeks to facilitate a national discussion on the quality of water plans and planning frameworks, as well as identify areas of better practice and those for improvement. It should be noted that the
report card is a desktop assessment. It focuses on the policy and legislative processes for water planning and does not examine on-ground implementation arrangements in detail
Out of reach? The Australian housing affordability challenge
No full textThis report argues that Australia\u27s housing market is not meeting the needs of all Australians, which is reflected in declining home ownership rates, and recommends extensive reforms.
Executive summary
In this report, the committee underscores the importance of affordable, secure and suitable housing as a vital determinant of wellbeing. But, based on the evidence, the committee finds that a significant number of Australians are not enjoying the security and comfort of affordable and appropriate housing—that currently Australia\u27s housing market is not meeting the needs of all Australians.
Sustained growth in median housing costs above the rate of median household income growth in recent decades has made it increasingly difficult for a growing proportion of Australians to afford housing that is safe, secure and appropriate to their needs. Added to the general decline in housing affordability, and indeed compounding the trend, the stock of affordable housing—that is, housing appropriate to the needs of low- to moderate-income households—has failed to keep pace with demand in recent decades. The committee does not believe the issue of housing affordability in Australia is rightly categorised as either a \u27supply-side problem\u27 or a \u27demand-side problem\u27. With this in mind, it is clearly evident that supply is currently not keeping pace with demand in the housing market. In this context, policy interventions that add to demand without addressing or at least accounting for supply-side constraints risk inflating house prices and exacerbating affordability problems.
Worsening housing affordability is reflected in declining home ownership rates. This decline is troubling for a number of reasons, not least because home ownership can be an important means for people to achieve financial and social wellbeing. Moreover, high rates of home ownership also provide broader economic and social benefits to the community. As such, while the committee believes governments should work to improve affordability outcomes for all types of housing tenure, it considers it appropriate for governments to promote home ownership.
The committee makes a range of recommendations directed primarily toward improving home purchase affordability. They include state governments phasing out conveyancing stamp duties, to be achieved through a transition to more efficient taxes, potentially including land taxation levied on a broader base than is currently the case. Other recommendations are directed at improving the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of infrastructure funding arrangements, which can have a strong influence on the cost of new housing. Similarly, a number of recommendations are made with the intention of ensuring land supply, urban planning and zoning processes have a positive effect on housing affordability
Why a "Coloured" National Convention
No full textWe would like to stress at the outset that we are not organising this Convention in order to “gang up” with persons of other race-groups against others. Some people say that we should have nothing to do with Africans, because we have nothing in common with them. This is utter folly. We could mention several important factors which we do have in common with them. There is our common humanity, there is our common South Africanism, there is a great deal of common discrimination under South African laws, and there is, in regard to a great and growing number of Africans, a common Western view of life. We would like to see developed a wider South Africanism, capable of embracing all the peoples of this country, whatever their race, colour or creed. Let nobody say that because we are organising a Convention as a Coloured group, we are recognising and accepting the fact that we are a separate groun, or that we wish to be so regarded in the laws of the land. We repeat that we are a separate group by exclusion, by discrimination, by virtue of laws which we regard as wrong. And it is to destroy this false, separate identity that we are dedicating ourselves in this Convention
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