Provides information on the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone strategic assessment as part of a public consultation. Introduction Background The Queensland Government entered into a Strategic Assessment Agreement (SAA) with the Australian Government in 2012 under section 146 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to undertake a strategic assessment of...

This report specifically considers the Great Barrier Reef region’s heritage values, including Indigenous heritage, historic heritage and the area’s world heritage values.

Presents the ABS' first experimental land account to demonstrate a method for reporting change in land use, rateable value and land cover.

This report outlines Australia’s progress in implementing key requests made by the United Nations World Heritage Committee with regard to the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Purpose of this report This 2014 State Party Report is a progress report outlining Australia’s substantial progress in implementing key requests made by the World Heritage Committee and...

The first in a series, this report provides an overview of the past and present condition of the environmental, economic and social values of the Great Barrier Reef and presents its possible future.