Australian Landcare Council

The Australian Landcare Council (the council) is the Australian Government’s key advisory body on Landcare. The council is established under the Commonwealth Natural Resources Management (Financial Assistance) Act 1992.

The council, with the Landcare community, including farmers and Indigenous land managers, will assist the government to reinvigorate Landcare, provide insight into future opportunities and ensure the Landcare movement and Australian community can meet the challenges of food security, responding to climate change, supporting volunteers and maintaining the environment.

These important issues will form part of the discussions at the quarterly meetings of the council.

For more information on the council’s activities in 2009—10 refer to the council’s annual report.

For information on council meeting outcomes refer to the council’s communiqués.

There are seventeen appointments to the council. These appointees have strong local environment, community and natural resource management skills and abilities relevant to the work of the council. See a short biography of each member.

The council is developing an Action Plan on behalf of the Landcare community to support the Australia Framework for Landcare. The Council is seeking your comments on a draft of the Action Plan.

Council has developed a paper Operating environment in 2012 for Landcare and related community–based groups in each of the states and territories across Australia that provides an explanation of the scope of arrangements and resources relating to Landcare across Australian states and territories.