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Advocacy Friends of Grasslands has an Advocacy Group to coordinate and take responsibility for advocacy. Advocacy includes things like:
Advocacy is done mostly by writing submissions and letters, and/or by organising or attending and following-up on meetings. Please Contact Us if you would like to help with advocacy work. The following submissions have been made by FoG on a range of planning issues. 2008 23 June 2008: Territory Plan Draft Variation No.281 - Molonglo and North Weston 16 June 2008: Gungahlin town centre study, ACT 9 May 2008: Preliminary Assessment for upgrading of the ACT portion of the Kings Highway 8 May 2008: EPBC referral 2008/4175 Crace: proposal to develop a new residential suburb in Gungahlin ACT 6 May 2008: EPBC referral 2008/4170, a proposal for taxiway extension at the Canberra International Airport, ACT 1 May 2008: Letter to Prime Minister re lack of action in managing kangaroos on Department of Defence land in Canberra, ACT 28 April 2008: Further to FoG submission to the Commissioner's grassland management inquiry of 25 January 2008, ACT 27 February 2008: Comment on the Canberra International Airport preliminary Draft Master Plan 2008, ACT 26 February 2008: Comments to the NSW NPWS on Turallo Nature Reserve draft plan of management, NSW 14 February 2008: Comment on a draft management plan on the Narrabundah Long Stay Caravan Park swapsite, ACT 25 January 2008: Submission to the ACT Lowland Native Grasslands Inquiry 19 January 2008: Comments under the EPBC Act on the transfer of land from the Department of Defence to the Canberra Airport Group (CAG) to build a road around the northern end of the Canberra Airport, ACT 2007 21 December 2007: Transfer of 38.83ha of land from the Department of Defence to the Canberra Airport Group to build a 2.3km road around the northern end of the airport, ACT 3 December 2007: comments on 'the Belconnen native lowland grasslands' site - the Belconnen Naval Station site, 'the Lawson grassland', ACT 26 November 2007: Draft Variation to the ACT Territory Plan No. 261 North Watson 26 November 2007: Draft Variation to the ACT Territory Plan No. 281 Molonglo and North Weston, and the associated Preliminary Assessment 29 October 2007: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) 29 October 2007: ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee's 'Water Use and Management Inquiry'. 18 October 2007: Transfer of Defence land at Majura ACT 8 October 2007: Residential development, Macgregor ACT 14 September 2007: Draft ACT Weeds Strategy 3 September 2007: Draft Variation to the ACT Territory Plan No. 285 Symonston Block 17 Section 12 - extension of Broadacre 10E Area Specific Policy 30 August 2007: Provisions for Mobile Home Park, Symonston, ACT 17 August 2007: Three Preliminary Assessments - Site preparation of the Inner Asset Protection Zones of three southern Canberra Nature Park Nature Reserves: Cooleman Ridge, Tuggeranong Hill, Urambi Hills, ACT 3 August 2007: Block 17 Section 102 Symonston, ACT 1 August 2007: Letter to the Editor: Rare reptiles and precious plants at West Macgregor, ACT 19 July 2007: Proposal for 39 sites within three Nature Reserves of Canberra Nature Park, ACT, to enable mowing with a slasher 'to protect adjacent assets by maintaining bushfire hazards at an acceptable risk level' 13 July 2007: Proposal to develop Block 22 Section 32, Yarralumla, ACT for a diplomatic mission 11 July 2007: Letter to the Editor: Kangaroo culling, ACT 1 June 2007: Draft restructured Territory Plan, ACT 28 May 2007: ACT Flora and Fauna Committee's 'Proposed amendments to the guidelines and criteria for assessment of threatened species and communities in the ACT' 18 May 2007: Four proposed fire trails in Namadgi National Park and Bullen Range Nature Reserve, ACT 2 May 2007: Scabby Range Reserve and Yaouk Nature Reserve Draft Fire Management Strategies, ACT 4 April 2007: Jerrabomberra Wetlands Nature Reserve Draft Management Plan, ACT 2 April 2007: Draft Murrumbateman Bush Cemetery Landscape Development Plan, NSW. |