Department of the Environment and Heritage annual report 2004-05
Volume two
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2005
ISSN 1441 9335
Legislation annual reports 2004-05 (continued)
In this section
Operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
Appendix 3 - Functions and membership of advisory committees under the Act
Threatened Species Scientific Committee
Under section 503 of the EPBC Act, the functions of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee are:
- to advise the minister in accordance with Division 5 of Part 13 in relation to the making of recovery plans and threat abatement plans
- to advise the minister (on the minister's request or on the committee's initiative) on the amendment and updating of the lists established under Part 13
- to advise the minister, at his or her request, on matters relating to the administration of this Act
- to give the minister such other advice as is provided for in this Act
- to perform such other functions as are conferred on the committee by this Act.
| Associate Prof. Robert Beeton (Chair) | Prof. Bob Kearney |
| Dr Susan Briggs | Dr Libby Matttiske |
| Mr Guy Fitzhardinge | Dr Pamela Parker |
| Prof. Gordon Grigg | Dr Rosemary Purdie |
| Dr Graham Harris | Dr John Woinarski |
Biological Diversity Advisory Committee
Under section 505 of the EPBC Act, the functions of the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee are:
- to advise the minister, at his or her request, on matters relating to the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of biological diversity
- to perform such other functions as are conferred on the committee by the Act or the Regulations.
The terms of reference for the committee are to advise:
- the minister on the performance of Australian Government programmes in promoting biodiversity conservation and the means to promote biodiversity conservation through improved business practices
- the Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (now subsumed by the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council) on priorities for action under the National Strategy for the Conservation of Australia's Biological Diversity.
| Name | Group represented |
|---|---|
| Prof. Hugh Possingham (Chair) | Scientific community - biological diversity |
| Dr Andrew Ash | Scientific community - biological diversity |
| Prof. Ralf Buckley | Tourism sector |
| Prof. Mark Burgman | Scientific community - biological diversity |
| Dr Cecil Camilleri | Business sector |
| Dr Rhondda Dickson | Australian Government |
| Mr Kim Evans | Standing Committee supporting the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council |
| Mr Alistair Graham | Conservation organisations |
| Mr Tim Low | Scientific community - terrestrial species |
| Dr Patricia Mather | Scientific community - marine species |
| Ms Francine McCarthy | Indigenous Advisory Committee |
| Cr Bill Mitchell | Local government |
| Dr Russell Reichelt | Fisheries sector |
| Assoc. Prof. Stephan Schnierer | Indigenous peoples |
| Mr William Sloane | Rural sector |
Indigenous Advisory Committee
Under section 505B of the EPBC Act, the function of the Indigenous Advisory Committee is to advise the minister on the operation of the Act, taking into account the significance of Indigenous people's knowledge of the management of land and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
The Indigenous Advisory Committee was established under the EPBC Act in July 2000, and held its inaugural meeting in Canberra in October 2000. The committee has met nine times since then and once jointly with the Biological Diversity Advisory Committee in 2004.
| Name | State or territory |
|---|---|
| Mr Rocky Sainty (Chair) | Tasmania |
| Mr Glen Kelly (Deputy Chair) | Western Australia |
| Ms Melissa George | Queensland |
| Mr John Chester | South Australia |
| Mr Vic McGrath | Torres Strait Islands |
| Ms Darcel Moyle | Victoria |
| Mr Leon Atkinson | Victoria |
| Ms Francine McCarthy | Northern Territory |
| Mr Joe Morrison | Northern Territory |
| Mr Robert Carroll | New South Wales |
| Vacant | New South Wales |
| Vacant | Western Australia |
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