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| Subject: Slash and burn underutilized nature: OZschwitz national parks to pay their way - YaY! Mon Apr 07, 2014 9:36 pm | |
| The money-making potential of Australia's national parks, including Uluru and Kakadu, could soon be tapped by a federal government department facing a desperate budget crisis.
Research flagship the Australian Antarctic Division will also look at ''alternative funding sources'' as the Environment Department battles to cut its annual budget by $100 million.
About 480 public servants will lose their jobs at Environment, on top of 190 bureaucrats who have already gone, and hundreds of programs and activities will either be modified or axed in a sweeping restructure as the department tries to cope with dwindling funds and efficiency dividend cuts.
Parks Australia and the Hobart-based Australian Antarctic Division must find new ways of raising money, according to an internal departmental review obtained by Fairfax Media. The two operations have been given the ''green light'' by the reviewers, categorised as ''activities proposed to continue following modification''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/environment-department-parks-to-pay-their-way-says-review-20140407-369e0.html#ixzz2yFqOlUCQ |
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