Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Overview
- Part One NAVIGATORS AND NATURALISTS IN THE AGE OF SAIL
- Part Two A NEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
- Chapter 11 ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF CORAL REEFS: FROM FORSTER TO DARWIN
- Chapter 12 DARWIN'S LEGACY: CORAL REEF CONTROVERSY 1863–1923
- Chapter 13 EXPLOITATION CHALLENGED: RISE OF ECOLOGY
- Chapter 14 REEF RESEARCH AND CONTROVERSY: 1920–1930
- Chapter 15 THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION, 1928–1929: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
- Chapter 16 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION
- Chapter 17 FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR: TOURISM, CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE, 1929–1939
- Chapter 18 THE PACIFIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
- Chapter 19 A NEW PROBLEM: THE CONSERVATION CONTROVERSY, 1958–1972
- Chapter 20 CRISIS RESOLUTION: FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
- Chapter 21 A NEW ERA: RESEARCH BASED MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 22 THE REEF UNDER PRESSURE: RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 23 THE REEF AS HERITAGE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE
- References
- Index
Chapter 20 - CRISIS RESOLUTION: FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
from Part Two - A NEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Overview
- Part One NAVIGATORS AND NATURALISTS IN THE AGE OF SAIL
- Part Two A NEW ERA IN REEF AWARENESS: FROM EARLY SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION TO CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE
- Chapter 11 ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF CORAL REEFS: FROM FORSTER TO DARWIN
- Chapter 12 DARWIN'S LEGACY: CORAL REEF CONTROVERSY 1863–1923
- Chapter 13 EXPLOITATION CHALLENGED: RISE OF ECOLOGY
- Chapter 14 REEF RESEARCH AND CONTROVERSY: 1920–1930
- Chapter 15 THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION, 1928–1929: PLANNING AND PREPARATION
- Chapter 16 BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH OF THE LOW ISLES EXPEDITION
- Chapter 17 FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR: TOURISM, CONSERVATION AND SCIENCE, 1929–1939
- Chapter 18 THE PACIFIC WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
- Chapter 19 A NEW PROBLEM: THE CONSERVATION CONTROVERSY, 1958–1972
- Chapter 20 CRISIS RESOLUTION: FORMATION OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
- Chapter 21 A NEW ERA: RESEARCH BASED MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 22 THE REEF UNDER PRESSURE: RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT
- Chapter 23 THE REEF AS HERITAGE: A CHALLENGE FOR THE FUTURE
- References
- Index
Summary
Well before the Royal Commission had ever been considered, pressure for Reef protection had continued to grow strongly following the ACF symposium in May 1969, when a few of the more determined advocates came together to press for political action on the final resolution. In the following years, two complementary, interacting processes were in operation: on the one hand continued conservationist efforts were being exerted to mobilise public support for Reef protection; on the other, was the drawn-out contest between the Commonwealth and Queensland governments to reach an acceptable resolution of difficulties to enable political and legislative change.
FROM RESOLUTION TO IMPLEMENTATION: FIRST DRAFTS OF AN ACT
A leading protagonist throughout was Patricia Mather, acting officially in her capacity as honorary secretary of the GBRC, but in large part driven by sheer personal determination to see that the Reef would be saved from mining and any other form of blight. In preparation for the symposium, on 21 February 1969 she sent Chief Justice Barwick a résumé of the deliberations of the GBRC over the previous two years in examining the legal issues relating to protection. Having described them in careful detail she then presented the crux of the GBRC case: ‘The most pressing requirements at the present [are] … to extend the protection afforded all marine flora and fauna to territorial waters surrounding all national parks … to prohibit mining of minerals below high water … [and] to investigate setting up of further national parks’.
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- The Great Barrier ReefHistory, Science, Heritage, pp. 337 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002