Threatened Species Scientific Committee
The committee advises the minister on the amendment and updating of the EPBC Act’s lists of threatened species, threatened ecological communities, and key threatening processes, and on the making or adoption of recovery plans and threat abatement plans.
Table B16: Membership of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee at 30 June 2012
Membership
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Professor Helene Marsh (Chair)
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Professor Peter Harrison
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Dr Andrea Taylor
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Dr Bill Humphreys
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Dr Michelle Heupel
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Dr John Woinarski
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Dr Rosemary Purdie
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Dr Guy Fitzhardinge
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Dr Keith Walker
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Dr Gordon Guymer
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The Indigenous Advisory Committee established under section 505B of the EPBC Act provides advice to the minister on the operation of the EPBC Act by incorporating Indigenous people’s knowledge of land management and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
Table B17: Membership of the Indigenous Advisory Committee at 30 June 2012
Membership
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Ms Melissa George (Chair)
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Ms Chrissy Grant (Deputy Chair)
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Mr Jason Field
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Mr Dave Johnston
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Mr Frank Loban
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Mr Damein Bell
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Ms Francine McCarthy
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Mr Joe Morrison
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Mr Kado Muir
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Mr Daniel Oades
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Mr Klynton Wanganeen
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Australian Heritage Council
The Australian Heritage Council, which is established under the Australian Heritage Council Act 2003, is the Australian Government’s principal advisory body on heritage matters. The Council is responsible under the EPBC Act for assessing the heritage values of places nominated for possible inclusion in the National and Commonwealth Heritage lists, and for advising the minister on heritage issues.
Table B18: Membership of the Australian Heritage Council at 30 June 2012
Membership
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Professor Dr Carmen Lawrence (Chair)
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Mr Howard Tanner
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Associate Professor Peter Valentine
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Mr Rodney Dillon
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Dr Jacqueline Huggins AM
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Dr Libby Mattiske
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Ms Helen Lardner
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The council met six times during 2011–12.
Appendix C: 2011–12 publications
Compliance and Enforcement Policy: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
‘Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999: Environment Assessment Manual–Implementing Chapter 4, EPBC Act’.
Draft referral guidelines for the endangered Macquarie perch, Macquaria australasica
Draft referral guidelines for four threatened Tasmanian burrowing crayfish
Referral guidelines for the vulnerable black-eyed susan, Tetratheca juncea
Referral guidelines for the vulnerable striped legless lizard, Delma impar
Draft Referral guidelines for the waum sedllge frog, Litoria olongburensis
Draft referral guidelines for three species of Western Australian black cockatoos
Guidance Note 1–Listings made after a section 75 ‘Controlled Action’ decision: Section 158A of the EPBC Act–February 2012
Guidance Note 2–Expiry Dates for Approvals-February 2012
Guidance Note 3–Definition of ‘action’: Section 523, section 524, and section 524A of the EPBC Act–February 2012
Guidance Note 4–Reconsideration: Implementing the requirements of sections 78, 78A, 78B and 78C of the EPBC Act–April 2012
Guidance Note 5–‘Indirect consequences’ of an action: Section 527E of the EPBC Act– April 2012
Guidance Note 6–Change of person proposing to take an action; Change of proponent; Transfer of approvals: subsection 78(5) and sections 145B and 156F of the EPBC Act– April 2012
Guidance Note 7–Definition of ‘Environment’ under section 528 of the EPBC Act–April 2012
Guidance Note 8–EPBC Act Delegations–April 2012
Guidance Note 11–Prior Authorisation and Continuing Use Exemptions: Sections 43A and 43B of the EPBC Act–May 2012
Guidance Note 12–Staged Developments–Split referrals: Section 74A of the EPBC Act– May 2012
Interim Koala Referral Advice for Proponents
Pamphlets, factsheets, and other publications
Nationally protected broad leaf tea-tree (Melaleuca viridiflora) woodlands in high rainfall coastal north Queensland–does it affect you and your land?–fact sheet
Lowland rainforest & landholders–fact sheet
Arnhem Plateau Sandstone Heath ecological community–fact sheet
Compliance monitoring and auditing–fact sheet
Celebrating Canberra: A nation’s cultural and democratic landscape
Living Heritage (online magazine)–Issues 3–6
Compliance audits completed during 2011–summary of findings
Compliance audits completed during 2012–summary of findings
Australian Heritage Strategy–Public Consultation paper
Australian Heritage Strategy–10 Essays
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What is Heritage?–Peter Spearritt
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What is Heritage?–Susan Tonkin
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Whose Heritage?–Damein Bell & Joy Elley
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Whose Heritage is it?–Joann Schmider & Peter James
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Who are the Players in Heritage and What Roles do they Play?–Don Garden
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What are the Community Expectations for Heritage Protection?–Chris Johnston
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What are the Community Expectations for Heritage Protection?–Heath McDonald
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Delivering the Social and Economic Benefit of Heritage Tourism–Bruce Leaver
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‘Only Connect’–The Social, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Cultural Heritage
–Kate Clark
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Conserving Australia’s Geoheritage–Graeme Worboys
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