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North Australian Land Manager
North Australian Land Manager enables people to make better land
management decisions by providing information on the soils, pasture and
plants and animals that need to be looked after, and on the problems
land managers face, such as wildfire, weeds and pest animals.
Importantly, the site allows north Australian land managers to share
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- Bureau of Meteorology
Check out the latest weather information, including flood warnings, rainfall, and river heights. This site's hydrology section has great photos and historical data on Southern Gulf rivers and the region's flood history.
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- Landcare
The Southern Gulf Catchments have seven Landcare groups dedicated to fixing land and water degradation problems. Here's where you can learn more about on-ground works tackling vegetation management, soil erosion, salinity, pest management, and water quality.
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- Natural Heritage Trust
The Natural Heritage Trust was set up by the Australian Government in 1997 to help restore and conserve Australia's environment and natural resources. It is the major funding body for NHT regional bodies, including Southern Gulf Catchments. Here you can learn more about the largest environmental rescue plan ever undertaken in Australia.
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- National Oceans Office
Australia's oceans hold a sixth of the fish types known worldwide and are home to the largest area of coral reefs. They are also the source of $30 billion in income from tourism, recreation, oil and gas production, shipping, fishing and aquaculture. The National Oceans Office implements Australia's Oceans Policy and manages our oceans as both a part of nature and as an economic resource.
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- Tropical Savannahs Cooperative Research Centre
Australia's 60 Cooperative Research Centres aim to bring together researchers and research users. This one is for those interested in Australia's tropical savannas - the landscapes of open trees and grasses that dominate the top third of the continent. Read about research into plants and animals and land-management issues, such as sustainable industries, fire, weeds, water, vegetation and climate.
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- Weeds Cooperative Research Centre
Weeds are one of the most serious threats to Australia's primary production and biodiversity. They cost us $3.5b every year. Here you can learn about collaborative efforts to prevent new species and arrest existing ones.
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Queensland
- Department of Natural Resources
and Water
NR&W manages and plans for the sustainable use of Queensland's natural resources - land
and water resources, and native vegetation - as well as controlling pest plants and animals. Here you can transact business or research topical issues such as new legislation, water resource plans and salinity maps. Click Here >>
- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
DPI&F is the Queensland Government department overseeing food and fibre industries in Queensland. This site covers everything from industries and issues to activities throughout the State, including beef, fishing, pastures and crops. There's also a fun and educational section for children. Click Here >>
- Department of State Development and Innovation
Everything you need to know about starting a business, expanding or exporting. Check out the special section on regional development which reviews policies, incentives and support for new ideas that empower regional, rural and remote communities. Click Here >>
- Regional Groups Collective
The Regional Groups Collective represents the state-wide interests of the fifteen Regional Natural Resource Management Bodies in Queensland. Click Here >>
- Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA is the Queensland Government agency for environmental management, parks and forests, nature conservation and cultural heritage. This site also includes the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and the Riversleigh fossil find, in the heart of the Southern Gulf, which was declared a World Heritage Area in 1994. Click Here >>
Southern Gulf Catchments Area
- Mount Isa City Council
Mount Isa is the largest city in the world, stretching right out to embrace Camooweal on the Northern Territory border. Before being discovered by John Campbell-Miles in 1923, it was home to the Kalkadoons - the country's most famous Aboriginal warriors and its first miners, who had their own axe quarries. Mount Isa is now a mining and major service centre and home to 18,500 residents. Click Here >>
- Cloncurry Shire Council
Cloncurry breathes cattle and has copper and gold in it's veins. in 1867
Ernest Henry and Roger Sheaffe started a joint pastoral-mining venture
on the banks of Cloncurry River, named by the ill-fated explorer Robert
O'Hara Burke in 1861. The town was proclaimed in 1884 and boomed into
the 20th century with merchants, carriers, miners, builders, bakers and
battlers. Cloncurry was the biggest, boisterous town in the outback
Queensland between 1880s and 1960s. During WW1 Cloncurry was the main
source of Australian copper, with 7000 people working many mines and
four smelters. After a century of boom and bust, Cloncurry now enters
the 21st century with the biggest mining operations in Australia.
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- Burke Shire Council
Burke Shire was named after one of the ill-fated explorers, Robert O'Hara Burke, who perished along with William John Wills in 1861. This site contains information on Burke Shire's towns, communities and stations. You can also view information and pictures about the shire's business and industry, colourful history, tourist attractions, weather and road conditions, and the Morning Glory - the amazing, rolling cloud phenomenon.
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- Flinders Shire Council
Hughenden has many attractions to offer with four National Parks,
Gemfields, mountainous volcanic basalt country, and sweeping black soil
plains and rich fossil and dinosaur areas. One of the most famous of
these attractions is Porcupine Gorge National Park. Porcupine Gorge
offers camping, bird watching, swimming, splendid photography
opportunities, and a diverse range of flora and fauna living amongst the
brilliantly coloured volcanic basalt countryside and sandstone rocks.
Campers should take their own water. Kooroorinya Falls Nature Reserve is
also a beautiful natural spot for fishing, camping, bushwalking and
swimming. Click Here >>
- McKinlay Shire Council
McKinlay Shire was named after the great Australian explorer John
McKinlay (pictured), who undertook the first and greatest
transcontinental feat in Australia, traveling from Adelaide to the Gulf
of Carpentaria in 1861-62. The first settlers to the McKinlay Shire had
to be hardy souls, and even today the shire is a place of extraordinary
people who can cope with the outback Australian way of life, where
community spirit overlooks the hardships of drought and isolation.
Artesian water is the heart blood of the outback. Julia Creek relies on
the underground water supply and has four bores within a 2km radius of
the town centre. One of the bores is situated at the base of the
distinctive wineglass-shaped water tower.
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- Carpentaria Shire Council
This is the accessible outback! The family sedan will get you here in
comfort, because you can make the entire journey on bitumen roads,
whether you're travelling inland from Cairns or all the way up from
Melbourne. In fact, it is the only bitumen accessible part of the Gulf
of Carpentaria but beware of local musters, there may be stock on the
roads!! The Carpentaria Shire is the size of the entire State of
Tasmania and has just two towns, Normanton and Karumba. They both have
a wonderful laidback atmosphere with easy going locals that are
always willing to chat over a beer at one of the hotels.
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- Richmond Shire Council
The town of Richmond, situated half-way between Townsville and Mt Isa,
is recognised as being one of the most attractive outback towns in
Queensland and a town that takes pride in its appearance. It proudly
boasts taking out the title of Queensland's Tidiest Town 2001 in the
Keep Australia Beautiful Awards. In prehistoric times, Richmond's
location was submerged beneath the Ancient Inland Sea, and today the
fossilised remains of animal and plant life from this Sea are being
marketed globally through the World-Renowned Kronosaurus Korner Fossil
Museum. Links with neighbouring shires have been forged to
create Australia's Dinosaur Trail, which is a self-drive
'triangle' including the towns Richmond, Winton and Hughenden, all
containing significant areas of fossil discovery.
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Doomadgee
Doomadgee, near Burketown, is home to 1200 people, most of them Aboriginal. The main inhabitants are the Gangallida and Waanyi peoples, along with the Garrawa and Yunjulla people.
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Mornington Shire Council
Mornington Island is a remote community in the southern corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The shire covers 22 islands in the Wellesley Island group. Mornington itself is home to just over 1000 people.
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Southern Gulf aims to: Protect and restore biodiversity values, Arrest land degradation, Improve water quality through decreased sedimentation, Facilitate coastal and marine management 
