❓ Question regarding the release of the Swan River management plan (Riverplan), delays in its completion, and its relevance to recent environmental issues. The Minister's response addresses concerns about the plan's practicality, transparency, and past ineffective strategies.
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I refer the minister to the press release of the Water and Rivers Commission of 30 May 2003, in which the trust’s manager, Darryl Miller, stated that its management plan, Riverplan, had been completed as required by the Swan River environmental protection policy and would soon be released for public comment. (1) What issues need to be resolved before the management plan can be released, and does the trust intend to revise the plan in light of recent fish kill events and the current state of the Swan River? (2) When does the minister expect to release the management plan for public comment? (3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS
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I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(1) What issues need to be resolved before the management plan can be released, and does the trust intend to revise the plan in light of recent fish kill events and the current state of the Swan River? (2) When does the minister expect to release the management plan for public comment? (3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(2) When does the minister expect to release the management plan for public comment? (3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(1) What issues need to be resolved before the management plan can be released, and does the trust intend to revise the plan in light of recent fish kill events and the current state of the Swan River? (2) When does the minister expect to release the management plan for public comment? (3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(2) When does the minister expect to release the management plan for public comment? (3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(3) Is Riverplan a strategy or a management plan? (4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(4) Why has it taken over two and a half years since the draft stage was reached in 2000 for the plan to be completed? Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
Dr J.M. EDWARDS replied: I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
I thank the member for the question. (1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
(1)-(4) The plan is an Environmental Protection Authority document that the Swan River Trust puts into effect. The EPA recently transmitted that document to me. I had a number of questions, particularly about how the plan, which contained some very good ideas but was fairly general, could be implemented. I will release the plan shortly, but not until I am clear that it is not just a set of motherhood statements. This Government inherited a Swan River Trust steeped in secrecy. In our first couple of years in government we received many complaints that the community could not find out about the decisions and internal operations of the Swan River Trust. Dr Syme from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation undertook a review of the organisation. Part of that entailed asking the community for information about the trust. After speaking to all the stakeholders, he made many valuable recommendations. He emphasised that the core issue was the need to increase accountability and open the decision-making process, and we have done that. Since 1 March, all the trust’s recommendations to me are available to the community and not steeped in the secrecy of the past. The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
The algal bloom presents some difficulties. It is a difficult issue to resolve. However, mickey mouse strategies or tactics such as those used by the previous Minister for Water Resources will not make it go away. When a toxic algal bloom resulted in the closure of the Swan River in 2000, the then minister announced a variety of phoney measures that were meant to reassure the community. For example, he suggested using hoses from fire hydrants to spray water onto the river. I will not employ those sorts of gimmicks. Rather, I will continue the Swan-Canning clean-up program and the 20 projects in place, which are slowly improving the health of our rivers.
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