Maybe our friend in Europe, Bernard Blanc, has the information on where and how to counter the Govt lobbying of Committee members. Bernard? Trudy ********************* >From ABC on-line news 8/3/99 Govt to spend $1 million to keep Kakadu off in-danger list The Federal Government believes its campaign to stop the Kakadu World Heritage area from being put on an in-danger list will cost an estimated $1 million. Government officials are strongly lobbying members of the United Nation's World Heritage Committee in the lead-up to July, when a decision on the area will be made. Environment Minister Robert Hill has defended the cost of the campaign, saying committee members need to be told of the facts. "That's money which we would have much preferred to put into World Heritage conservation and management," Senator Hill said. "But unfortunately largely through the actions of the Labor Party and the Australian Democrats we've had to spend it on other causes of less value." "We want the truth put to the committee so that they can then make a decision objectively and fairly. "Madam [Senate] President, we actually want to protect the integrity of the World Heritage system from being undermined by the Australian Democrats and the Australian Labor Party." ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
