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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (ABOLITION OF ALPINE GRAZING) BILL 2011
2010-2011
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Environment Protection and Biodiversity
Conservation (Abolition of Alpine
Grazing) Bill 2011
No. , 2011
(Mr Bandt)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Environment
Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in
relation to alpine grazing, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short title ...................................................................................................... 1
2 Commencement ............................................................................................ 1
3 Schedule(s) ................................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments relating to alpine grazing
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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74E Alpine grazing in Victoria ........................................................................ 3
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Abolition of Alpine Grazing) Bill 2011
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Environment
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Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in
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relation to alpine grazing, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Environment Protection and
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Biodiversity Conservation (Abolition of Alpine Grazing) Act 2011.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Abolition of Alpine Grazing) Bill 2011
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Schedule 1--Amendments relating to alpine
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grazing
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
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1999
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1 After section 74D
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Insert:
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74E Alpine grazing in Victoria
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For section 74C (Informing person proposing to take action that
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action is clearly unacceptable), the Minister:
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(a) is taken to have received, from the Government of Victoria, a
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referral of its proposal to allow grazing by cattle in the
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Alpine National Park for the purposes of a trial as to whether
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such grazing can assist fire prevention and control; and
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(b) is taken to have decided under section 74B, on the
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commencement of this provision, that this Division should
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apply to the referral for the following reasons:
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(i) the proposed grazing for the purposes of the trial would
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have a significant impact on the following listed
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threatened species and listed threatened ecological
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communities:
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(A) Alpine Sphagnum Bogs and Associated Fens;
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(B) Spotted Tree Frog Litoria spenceri;
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(C)
Dwarf
Sedge
Carex paupera;
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(D) Alpine Tree Frog Litoria verreauxii alpina;
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(ii) the proposed grazing for the purposes of the trial could
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have a significant impact on the following listed
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threatened species and listed threatened ecological
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communities that are known to exist near the grazing
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sites:
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(A)
Spot-tailed
Quoll
Dasyurus maculatus
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maculatus;
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(B)
Long-footed
Potoroo
Potorous longipes;
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(C)
Smoky
Mouse
Pseudomys fumeus;
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(D)
Clover
Glycine
Glycine latrobeana;
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(iii) there is no ground for approving the proposed trial
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because grazing on the scale that would be necessary to
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achieve any fire control objectives would have an
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impact on the species and ecological communities
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mentioned, together with many others, that would
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outweigh any possible benefits.
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