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ALP’s Conservation Policy builds bureaucracy, cuts nutrient reduction funding

The Minister for Conservation and Land Management, Marie Tehan, says the ALP policy would split the highly successful Parks Victoria into two new bodies for no apparent reason.

It would also and establish a Commission for Ecologically Sustainable Development when the Coalition has successfully been focusing on this for the past seven years, through the work of existing Government departments.

In 1997, the CSIRO completed a $12 million study of Port Phillip Bay that found that it was in good health only requiring ongoing reduction of nutrients.

The ALP policy would also cut funding for nutrient reduction in Port Phillip Bay from $100m to $22.5 million.

(News Release, Office of the Minister for Conservation and Land Management, 29 August 1999)