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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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McKay, Jennifer |
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Conference:
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Regional Conference on Water Law, Legal Aspects of Sustainable Water Resources Management |
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Location:
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Teslic, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Conf. Date:
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May 14-18 |
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Date:
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2001 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8215
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Sector:
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Water Resource & Irrigation |
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Region:
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Pacific and Australia |
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Subject(s):
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water resources
privatization
resource management
public service
natural resources
reform
institutions
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Abstract:
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"The paper will describe the past water resources management processes and the recent water reform process in Australia. The recent changes have seen the transition from publicly owned bodies to semi privatized bodies or corporatised bodies. This transition is in line with trends on the world stage. In Australia the transformation from public to semi private has taken place in each State but has been nationally driven by reforms known as the Council of Australian Government (COAG) reforms. In Australia, a federation the powers over water are with the lower tier of government, the States, however the Commonwealth has always had and used its fiscal powers to drive law reforms in other areas and is doing so now with water reform. The overall regulatory Models chosen are broadly similar in each State and so NSW will be examined in detail. However, within the package of reforms there are various legal instruments used in each of the seven states and mini case studies of twelve of these will be provided. Finally, two detailed case studies of the legal instruments and regulatory model from the States of Victoria and South Australia will be concluded giving the detail of some of the vexing issues for the future."
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