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Main Report

• Main Regional Programs Report 2003-04 as one file (PDF - 4400 KB)
• Reader's guide (PDF - 33 KB)
• Foreword, Contents and Glossary (PDF - 81 KB)
• Chapter 1 - This report (PDF - 466 KB)
• Chapter 2 - Performance summary (PDF - 516 KB)
• Chapter 3 - Land salinity (PDF - 434 KB)
• Chapter 4 - Soil condition (PDF - 401 KB)
• Chapter 5 - Rivers and wetlands (PDF - 657 KB)
• Chapter 6 - Nutrients in aquatic environments (PDF - 244 KB)
• Chapter 7 - Turbidity in aquatic environments (PDF - 252 KB)
• Chapter 8 - Surface water salinity (PDF - 327 KB)
• Chapter 9 - Native vegetation (PDF - 632 KB)
• Chapter 10 - Significant native species (PDF - 430 KB)
• Chapter 11 - Significant invasive species (PDF - 276 KB)
• Chapter 12 - Estuarine, coastal and marine (PDF - 300 KB)

Regional Summaries

• All the regional summaries as one file (PDF - 6800 KB)

Summaries for individual regions are available by State listing below.

Australian Capital Territory

• Australian Capital Territory regional summary - (PDF - 206 KB)

New South Wales

• New South Wales regional summary - all regions (PDF - 1620 KB)
• Border Rivers-Gwydir (PDF - 281 KB)
• Central West (PDF - 275 KB)
• Hawkesbury-Nepean (PDF - 245 KB)
• Hunter-Central Rivers (PDF - 243 KB)
• Lachlan (PDF - 253 KB)
• Lower Murray Darling (PDF - 248 KB)
• Murray (PDF - 294 KB)
• Murrumbidgee (PDF - 264 KB)
• Namoi (PDF - 279 KB)
• Northern Rivers (PDF - 278 KB)
• Southern Rivers (PDF - 343 KB)
• Sydney Metro (PDF - 196 KB)
• Western (PDF - 244 KB)

Northern Territory

• Northern Territory regional summary - (PDF - 141 KB)

Queensland

• Queensland regional summary - all regions - (PDF - 923 KB)
• Border Rivers Maranoa-Balonne (PDF - 204 KB)
• Burdekin (PDF - 208 KB)
• Burnett Mary (PDF - 134 KB)
• Cape York (PDF - 125 KB)
• Condamine (PDF - 155 KB)
• Desert Channels (PDF - 124 KB)
• Fitzroy (PDF - 182 KB)
• Mackay Whitsunday (PDF - 160 KB)
• Northern Gulf (PDF - 127 KB)
• South East Queensland (PDF - 162 KB)
• Southern Gulf (PDF - 123 KB)
• South West Queensland (PDF - 126 KB)
• Torres Strait (PDF - 74 KB)
• Wet Tropics (PDF - 129 KB)

South Australia

• South Australian regional summary - all regions (PDF - 1280 KB)
• Alinytjara Wilurara (PDF - 245 KB)
• Eyre Peninsula (PDF - 243 KB)
• Kangaroo Island (PDF - 290 KB)
• Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges (PDF - 492 KB)
• South Australian Murray Darling Basin (PDF - 421 KB)
• Northern and Yorke (PDF - 329 KB)
• South Australian Arid Lands (PDF - 278 KB)
• South East (PDF - 420 KB)

Tasmania

• Tasmanian regional summary - all regions (PDF - 307 KB)
• North (PDF - 133 KB)
• North West (PDF - 124 KB)
• South (PDF - 126 KB)
• Tasmanian NAP Region (PDF - 165 KB)

Victoria

• Victorian regional summary - all regions (PDF - 1620 KB)
• Corangamite (PDF - 564 KB)
• East Gippsland (PDF - 265 KB)
• Glenelg Hopkins (PDF - 561 KB)
• Goulburn Broken (PDF - 520 KB)
• Mallee (PDF - 487 KB)
• North Central (PDF - 374 KB)
• North East (PDF - 238 KB)
• Port Phillip and Westernport (PDF - 263 KB)
• West Gippsland (PDF - 200 KB)
• Wimmera (PDF - 319 KB)

Western Australia

• Western Australia regional summary - all regions (PDF - 1620 KB)
• Avon (PDF - 226 KB)
• Northern Agricultural (PDF - 174 KB)
• Rangelands (PDF - 240 KB)
• South Coast (PDF - 371 KB)
• South West (PDF - 281 KB)
• Swan (PDF - 231 KB)

About this document

Note: a Summary Report has also been produced to accompany this main report.

Reader's guide

What is the Regional Programs Report? The Australian Government and State/Territory Governments are working together through the $1.4 billion National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) and the $3 billion Natural Heritage Trust (Trust) to repair and conserve the natural environment and ensure the sustainable use of Australia’s natural resources.

The 2003-04 Regional Programs Report represents the first combined progress report to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council on these two initiatives. It summarises the remarkable developments occurring in the delivery of the NAP and the regional component of the Trust across Australia’s 57 natural resource management regions.

Structure of the report

Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduces this first combined report on the NAP and the Trust, describing the natural resource management issues being addressed and the priority characteristics of these programs.

Overall summary
Chapter 2 provides a snapshot of the progress achieved through the NAP and the Trust for the year to March 2004. It also summarises investments and progress in the development of the partnerships that underpin these programs.

Natural resource management issues
Chapters 3 to 12 highlight the investments and expenditure targeted at addressing each of the 10 priority natural resource management (NRM) issues and the progress that has been made towards regional targets.
(Note: these chapters are currently only available as PDF files).

Regional summaries
Appendices 1 to 8 provide details of targets, investments, expenditure and outputs achieved in each of the 57 NRM regions (arranged by State) covered by the NAP and the Trust.