❓ The Minister for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries outlines $5.1 million in funding for salinity-combating projects across four WA catchments, focusing on on-ground works and integrated management practices. A brief interjection raises concerns about funding sources.
AnsweredQoN 1344Legislative Council
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What is the minister doing to address what has been described as the biggest environmental issue in this State; that is, the issue of salinity? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank Hon Adele Farina for once again asking the most incisive question of question time. As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Adele Farina for once again asking the most incisive question of question time. As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
I thank Hon Adele Farina for once again asking the most incisive question of question time. As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
$1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region.
$1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region.
$1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region.
Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank Hon Adele Farina for once again asking the most incisive question of question time. As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
I thank Hon Adele Farina for once again asking the most incisive question of question time. As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
As the member has asked the question, I would like to inform the Chamber that, by remarkable coincidence, just today $5.1 million has been awarded to four catchments in Western Australia to do on-ground works in the battle against salinity. These projects, under the catchment demonstration initiative, will demonstrate various salinity-combating measures. The four initiatives include - $1.7 million to plant 10 000 hectares of perennial pastures and 2 000 hectares of woody perennials, install 350 kilometres of surface water management structures, rehabilitate existing saline land and protect areas at risk in the 40 000-hectare upper Coblinine catchment within the south west region; $1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region. Hon Barry House: You can finance all of these out of prosecutions like the prosecution of Alan Yandle for breaking a tree branch. Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
$1.2 million to demonstrate large-scale engineering and water management systems, perennial pastures, oil mallees and saltbush, and develop uses for excess water in the 24 000-hectare Wallatin Creek catchment, west of Merredin in the Avon region; $1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region.
$1.2 million to establish 7 500 hectares of perennial pastures, riparian and remnant vegetation protection, and 300 kilometres of surface water control on the Jerramungup plain in the 60 000-hectare Fitzgerald River catchment on the south coast; and $1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region.
$1 million to demonstrate commercial farm forestry, engineering, perennial pasture, salt-land grazing and surface water management systems in the Gillingarra-Koojan catchment in the northern agricultural region.
Hon KIM CHANCE: I think that matter relates to the Department of Conservation and Land Management rather than my agencies. These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
These projects will deliver targeted, large-scale, catchment-based demonstrations of integrated salinity management practices to help Western Australian farmers and communities respond to salinity. They will lead to the implementation of viable catchment plans, not just planning, which had been the focus of funding in the past decade. This is about the Gallop Government spending money on the ground where it needs to be spent.
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