SUBMISSION NATIVE VEGETATION INQUIRY ‑ BUSH USERS GROUP ‑ INDIGO REGION

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute. The following are issues of relevance.

-	Environmental science has already amassed a fine body of research, but it is not an absolute science rather, an emerging science, building its knowledge bank in an outdoor laboratory that imposes endless logistical and enquiry constraints. Of necessity, scientifically crude methods establish a species stocktake inventory and species utilisation of any given area, supported by identification of context specific variables.

The reality of specie counting in relationship to target species adaptability appears to have little traction in the rush to command and control by conservation, leading to deaf and blind gatekeeping.

-	Victorian Subordinate Legislation Act 1994 delivers authority to bureaucracy and acts as a revolving door for the passage of regulations and post sunset rebirth, without sufficient accountability to deter malfeasance. Consequently, prescriptive environmental regulation has burst forth in a cascading deluge of time critical, data intensive, income altering and life changing regulatory instruments.

-	In the semantics of occupational peerspeak, scoping articulates the primacy of radicalised conservation, bypassing injurious affection as a justified consultation and political lobbying.

Please consider this our submission.

Submission prepared by:
Jeanette Dowd (Secretary)

Contact
Win Morgan (President)
Phone: 03 57282779