ESTIMATES COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS – 17 JUNE 2010
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Question on Notice No 8.7
Mr CHAIRMAN: Please repeat the question.
Mr TOLLNER: I will be very specific here. I will give it to you on notice. I am after information on how
many magpie geese have been shot by people with water fowl hunting permits? That should be fairly
easy to obtain.
Mr CHAIRMAN: That is question No 8.7
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Mr TOLLNER: What might be a little bit more difficult to obtain is magpie geese that have been shot
by people who are not required to have a water fowl hunting permit.
Mr CHAIRMAN: So question No 8.7.
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Mr TOLLNER: One more question, minister, another very simple one, I am sure you will have this at
your fingertips. What plans are in place to increase the number of hunting reserves in the Top End?
Mr HAMPTON: Thank you, member for Fong Lim, I am happy to pass that on to Graham. Permits of
Parks and Reserves, that probably would relate to another Output Group that we have already gone
through, but Graham Phelps might have the answer. Mr Phelps.
Mr PHELPS: There are currently no plans to create additional hunting reserves.
Mr TOLLNER: How do you intend to placate the growing number of hunters in the Top End?
Mr PHELPS: We work very closely with the various representative bodies of the shooters’
associations to work with them to identify hunting opportunities. The Territory’s parks and reserves
make up about 3.6% of the Territory’s land mass. There is a vast area often parks which would also
be suitable for hunting reserves over which we do not have access control.
Mr TOLLNER: Very quickly, have there been any hunting reserves closed in the last ten years?
Mr HAMPTON: Mr Phelps.
Mr PHELPS: I need to take one on notice to check about the times and dates.
Mr TOLLNER: No worries, that is fine.
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Question on Notice No 8.8
Mr CHAIRMAN: Please repeat the question.
Mr TOLLNER: Have there been any hunting reserves closed in the Top End in the last ten years?
Mr CHAIRMAN: That is number 8.8.
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ESTIMATES COMMITTEE PROCEEDINGS – 17 JUNE 2010
Mr CHAIRMAN: That sees the conclusions of the questions at 3.1.
Output 3.2 - Flood Forecasting
Mr CHAIRMAN: We now move on to Output 3.2, Flood Forecasting. Are there any questions?
Mr CHANDLER: I only have one question on this. Minister, can you tell me what lessons have been
learnt from the Barkly flooding this year?
Mr HAMPTON: Member for Brennan, I presume you are talking about the Barkly Highway and, in
particular, I suppose that would be more of a question for the minister for Infrastructure.
Mr CHANDLER: Not so much concern about the road infrastructure but, about were there any
lessons from that particular high level of rainfall? I mean, you hear the term often a hundred year
floods.
Mr HAMPTON: One in a hundred year floods.
Mr CHANDLER: One in a hundred year floods. I am assuming that the cloud would come around
every hundred years so we do not get a chance to see them that often. Were there any specific
lessons that we could take from the fact that we have had one of those experiences that could help us
with other flood forecasting?
Mr HAMPTON: I am certainly happy to pass that on to Diana Leeder.
Ms LEEDER: Member for Brennan, I am not sure that I am able to help you with that. The department
has a rolling plan of upgrading gauging stations that are used for the flood forecasting information that
we provide. Where areas that there are insufficient stations are identified, then we add that to the
program. The program is developed, not just through NRETAS but with the emergency services and
other agencies. So, there is an annual meeting of looking at the forward plan for it. My suggestion
would be that probably this issue will come up at the next meeting of that, in whether there were any
gaps in the forecasting network. I am not sure whether that answers satisfactorily for you …
Mr CHANDLER: Absolutely.
Ms LEEDER: … but there is a process for identifying gaps.
Question on Notice No 8.9
Mr HAMPTON: I might just add to that. It is a good question and I am happy to take that on as well as
a question on notice, if you like. NRETAS is in its final phase of a three-year upgrade program to all
gauging stations. Looking at the current list of sites, there are none in the Barkly. I am happy to take
that away and have a look at it. With all respects it was a 1 in 100-year flood that did occur. It is an
unusual circumstance.
Mr CHANDLER: Yes, absolutely. Perhaps the question should be: if there are any lessons learnt at
the next meeting from what happened with this 100-year flood, can we have some feedback?
Mr HAMPTON: Yes.
Mr CHAIRMAN: That is question No 8.9.
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