Environment Funding Losing Best Bits

ABC Rural Report: July 10, 2009
By Sarina Locke, Canberra


"Caring for our Country environment funding is an improvement on the old system because there's certainty in the budget for natural resource management. But according to a natural resource management expert, the Rudd Government has thrown out the best element in the old system of the Natural Heritage Trust and National Action Plan for salinity and water quality...

Read more about the policy issues that Ed Wensing, Canberra-based SGS Associate Director, raised in an interview with Sarina Locke
http://www.abc.net.au/rural/regions/content/2007/s2621977.htm

Listen to the full interview on the ABC Rural Report Canberra Region program
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rural/regions/200907/r397104_1860099.mp3

(Ed's interview starts 6mins 50 into the program)