The following list of frequently asked questions contain useful information that may be helpful to use during the review of weeds declared noxious under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993.

The questions are arranged under a series of subheadings.

Background to the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system

1. Why do we have to assess the declaration of our Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds?

The current Weed Control Order, Number 20 of the Noxious Weeds Act 1993, declaring plants as noxious weeds commenced on 1 September 2006.

The Noxious Weeds Act 1993 specifies that the term of an Order will not exceed five (5) years (Section 7, Sub-Section (2) - paragraph (f)).

All declarations lapse on 1 September 2011 unless the Order is remade. 

To ensure that this does not occur NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) have reviewed the declarations of all State Prohibited (Class 1), Regionally Prohibited (Class 2), Regionally Controlled Weeds (Class 3) and Restricted Plants (Class 5).

Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds are generally declared to meet local needs. As such, we are now inviting councils to assess the appropriateness of Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations for their areas.

DPI will review any Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations that have been declared since Order 20.

2. What is the background of the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system?

The New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system was developed by DPI in consultation with the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee. It is based on the Australian and New Zealand Standards and former Cooperative Research Centre for Weed Management “National Post-Border Weed Risk Management Protocol”. This protocol is both Australian best-practice and the basis for the post-border system recommended internationally through the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

3. What was the previous declaration process?

The previous declaration process was largely based around evaluating whether a plant (weed) met the following six criteria, that is:

Weed Potential
The weed must have the potential to spread and become established in the area. Potential is related to biological factors such as amount of seed set, mode of distribution, plant competitiveness and other factors.

Need
The weed has, or could have, serious adverse effects on agriculture, the environment or human health.

Benefit
A significant benefit to agriculture, the environment, or the community can be expected from the declaration.

Means
There must be reasonable and enforceable means available to control the weed.

Intent
There must be a firm intention by the local control authority, or the government, to implement a planned program to control the weed as categorised.

Distribution
The weed does not occur in NSW, or is of limited distribution and has the potential to become more widespread.

4. What happened to the previous declaration system?

An evaluation of the previous declaration process was conducted in 2006. That evaluation identified a number of weaknesses. Evaluation of the criteria above, while evidence-based, was open to criticisms of a lack of transparency and objectivity. In addition, evaluations using the system were not necessarily repeatable in time and space. Although the previous system was broadly compatible with National protocols on post-border weed risk management, it is no longer best practice.

Weed Risk Management assessments that DPI have done

5. If DPI have assessed the declarations of State Prohibited (Class 1), Regionally Prohibited (Class 2), Regionally Controlled Weeds (Class 3) and Restricted Plants (Class 5) weeds, do we need to assess these species?

DPI has reviewed all State Prohibited (Class 1), Regionally Prohibited (Class 2), Regionally Controlled Weeds (Class 3) and Restricted Plants (Class 5) declarations that affect your local control authority.

Recommendations regarding these species will be presented to the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee and the Minister responsible for the Noxious Weeds Act 1993.

You do not need to assess these species, nor provide any paperwork on them.

6. What happens if we have concerns about the declarations of any State Prohibited (Class 1), Regionally Prohibited (Class 2), Regionally Controlled Weeds (Class 3) and Restricted Plants (Class 5) weeds?

DPI welcomes written submissions about any concerns you may have with regard to the current declaration of any State Prohibited (Class 1), Regionally Prohibited (Class 2), Regionally Controlled Weeds (Class 3) and Restricted Plants (Class 5) weeds.

As previously advised written submissions were to be received until 16 April 2010:

Manager Invasive Species, Strategy & Planning
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Locked Bag 21
Orange NSW 2800

Despite this, you should forward any outstanding submissions as soon as possible (and certainly before 30 June 2010) to the above address.

In addition, the Minister will be conducting a statutory public consultation process prior to the gazettal of any weed declarations. All stakeholders are welcome to comment during this process.

The New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system

How to do this

7. How do we assess our Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations and who do we submit assessments to?

The main method of review of all declared species, including Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations will be the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system.

Information about the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system can be found in the Background Information and Instruction Books.

Please submit completed assessments to:

Manager Invasive Species, Strategy & Planning
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Locked Bag 21
Orange  NSW  2800

(see Questions 9, 10 and 11 for further information on submissions).

8. Which Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds do we have to assess?

You are invited to assess the declaration of all Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds in your local control authority. A list of these weeds is available where you can select your control area, then note all Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds.

Depending on your area this search should produce between 10-30 weeds.

While you are welcome to assess the declaration of all Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds, there are two reasons why this may not be necessary (as outlined below).

9. Are there Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds that I do not have to assess?

Yes, there are two reasons why you will not have to assess all Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds.

9a. You do not have to assess Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds that you do not wish to have declared in your area.

DPI will assume that you wish to remove from declaration any Locally Controlled (Class 4) weed that you do not submit a New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) assessment for. DPI will confirm this assumption by sending one letter of confirmation to your General Manager after June 30 2010. No reply to this letter will be taken as confirmation of this assumption.

Alternatively, you are welcome to submit a completed NSW WRM assessment for all weeds and explicitly request removal in a covering letter for any weeds you no longer wish to have declared.

All requests for removal will be assessed by DPI, and, if appropriate, will be recommended for removal.

9b. You do not have to assess any Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds that DPI has already risk assessed.

DPI has assessed the declaration of the following weeds:

Title	Details
Toxicondendron succadaneum (Rhus tree)	244.0 KB
Opuntia species (Prickly pear)	247.0 KB
Phyla canescens (Lippia)	241.0 KB
Lantana species (Lantana - all of NSW)	243.5 KB
Harrisia species (Harrisia cactus)	245.5 KB
Cylindropuntia species (Prickly pear)	249.0 KB
Nassella trichotoma (Serrated tussock)	238.5 KB
Nassella neesiana (Chilean needle grass)	238.0 KB
Rubus fruticosus species aggregate (Blackberry)	245.0 KB

Recommendations for the continued declaration, or otherwise, of these species will be made.

When to do this

10. When do we have to do this by? Why?

NSW Department of Primary Industries are asking you to return your completed weed risk assessments by 30 June.

This return date will ensure that DPI staff are able to process the declarations in a timely manner and will ensure that proper consideration, public consultation and gazettal occurs.

What do we need to submit?

11. What paperwork/files need to be submitted to DPI?

All the following paperwork and files will be required by DPI:

a. A completed weed risk management assessment form for each weed. There are five sheets in each file, hence you can submit a maximum of five weeds in each file. We suggest that you title each file with your local control authority name (at a minimum) before it is submitted, and/or b.

A blank electronic file is available from the internet as a Microsoft Excel file titled Electronic form (242 kb, XLS) and this should be emailed to stephen.johnson@dpi.nsw.gov.au

b. Printed sheets of each of the above assessments for each species.

This means that if you assess 20 species in 4 files you will need to print 20 assessments but only submit the 4 files electronically.

c. Copies of any relevant reference material used (including that from unpublished sources, data and personal sources, see page 13 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for more information). Note the only exception to this outlined on page 13, and information found in the following two references:

Parsons, W. T. and Cuthbertson. E. G. (2001). Noxious weeds of Australia. CSIRO publishing, Collingwood, Victoria and/or Cunningham, G. M., Mulham, W. E., Milthorpe P. L. and Leigh J. H. (1992). Plants of western New South Wales. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

d. A short covering letter summarising

i. which species you wish to retain declaration of,
ii. which species you wish to have removed from declaration
iii. which species not previously declared you wish to have declared and
iv. any proposed control measures you wish to apply to these declarations.

Note that any proposed control measures will be considered by DPI staff and recommendations made to the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee and Minister. If you do not nominate proposed control measures, the following control measure will generally be recommended:

“the growth and spread of the plant must be controlled according to the measures specified in a management plan published by the LCA and the plant must not be sold, propagated or knowingly distributed.”

Information sources and submission of these

12. Can we use personal observations, knowledge and unpublished information?

Personal observations, personal knowledge and unpublished information can be used to complete assessments for the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system.

See pages 8-13 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for more information.

13. Why do we have to provide these references or contact information when we send in the assessments?

DPI requests that copies of the reference material used, or contact information of personal sources needs to be sent in with assessments.

New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) assessments rely on the use of good quality information to ensure that sensible weed management recommendations are made. DPI staff will be checking the assessments and information sources to ensure that errors are not made in the assessments, or in recommendations made.

See pages 8-12, and particularly page 13, of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for more information.

Can we use another form or system?

14. Can we use another form other than that found at the WRM page?

Industry and Investment strongly encourage you to use the form provided at the WRM page. This will help staff to assess the declarations in a standardised and timely manner. DPI will however accept submission of the assessments on another form so long as this other form contains responses to all assessment questions. This option will only be available with prior arrangement by contacting:

Dr Stephen Johnson - Weed Ecologist
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Locked Bag 21
Orange NSW 2800
Phone: 02 6391 3146
Fax: 02 6391 3206
email: stephen.johnson@dpi.nsw.gov.au 

15. Why do we have to use the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system to review our Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations? Why can’t we use another system?

Using the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system for your Locally Controlled (Class 4) declaration assessments will ensure consistency. This will allow you to compare the relative weed risk and feasibility of coordinated control of all weeds in the same land use.

It will also allow DPI to do this, as well as to compare the same weeds across different local control authorities. Recommendations for declarations to ensure coordinated state action on the weeds can then be made.

What happens if we do not assess our Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations?

16. What happens if we do not submit assessments of our Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations?

We strongly encourage councils to submit assessments of all their Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations. Alternatively, regional weed management groups may choose to assess weeds across their areas and submit these to individual councils for endorsement.

If council chooses not to accept the invitation of DPI before 30 June 2010, DPI staff will assess the appropriateness of all Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations in that local control authority. Subsequently, recommendations from these assessments will be made to the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee. The affected local control authority will be advised in writing subsequent to this process.

Land uses

17. Why do we have to review each species with a land use in mind?

Different types of weeds occur in different land uses. For example annual weeds such as ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) may be problem in dry land wheat crops in the south of NSW, while lantana (Lantana camara) may be a problem in native sclerophyll forest found in a National park on the coast. It is difficult to compare which weed is the ‘worst weed’.

One way to compare the risk that each weed poses is to compare how valuable or important each land use is. Although it is possible to do this, it can be difficult, and can result in disagreement. An easier approach is to compare weeds within a land use only and to allocate existing resources appropriately.

Land use can be most simply defined as the purpose or activity that the land is used for by the landholder and/or the community. Examples of land use can be diverse, for example nature conservation, dry land or irrigated agriculture, intensive horticulture, urban developments, and fresh and salt water environments.

The NSW WRM system suggests land uses based on the Australian Land Use Mapping classification system. See pages 20-24 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for more information.

18. What if the weed occurs in two or more land uses?

Some plants are weeds in multiple land uses, for example, alligator weed (Alternanthera philoxeroides) is a weed in diverse land uses such as dry land agriculture, residential areas and rivers.

There is no need to assess each weed in each land use it is found in.

Assess each weed in the pre-dominant land use that it occurs in, that is where it is most problematic. Said another way, DPI are happy to receive one assessment for each species that is a Locally Controlled (Class 4) declaration in your local control authority. Using the example above, it may be that alligator weed is by far the most problematic in residential areas in your area As such you would assess it with only this land use in mind. This assessment is the only assessment needed for this species from your local control authority.

In very limited cases, the weed may appear to be equally problematic in several land uses. If this is the case, you may wish to assess the weed in each land use and to submit the assessment/s that has the highest weed risk and feasibility of coordinated control scores.

Although we do not encourage the following, you are welcome to assess the species for as many land uses as you feel are needed and to submit each of these to DPI.

Consultation with affected stakeholders

19. Do we need to consult with affected stakeholders?

We encourage you to consult with affected stakeholders as you review your Locally Controlled (Class 4) declarations. In saying this, we envisage that many of the stakeholders you would consult would be those already attending regional weed management meetings.

DPI will undertake targeted consultation with members of the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee and any other relevant stakeholders the Committee identifies with respect to all declaration requests.

DPI will also coordinate statutory public consultation of the declaration changes during late 2010 and early 2011.

Have you done weed risk assessments already or found others?

20. If we have already done assessments using the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system can I send them in?

Yes, submit these after you have carefully checked that you have answered all questions and provided all reference information.

DPI are now encouraging all local control authorities and regional groups to use the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system to prioritise weeds.

21. We have already prioritised our the system “Which are my worst weeds’ by Rod Randall. Can we use this information for the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system?

Yes you can. This is because there is some similarity between the Randall and New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) systems. This is particularly the case for questions in the Invasiveness and Impacts sections of the NSW WRM system.

See pages 30 and 34 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for more information.

22. I found a whole lot of risk assessments by using a search engine - how can I use these?

Risk assessments on the Weeds Australia site have been provided by various state and territory government departments and the Future Farm Industries (formerly Salinity) Cooperative Research Centre as part of an Australian Government ‘Caring for our Country’ project.

The easiest way to use these assessments is to determine which state or territory has provided the initial assessment and refer to pages 12 and 29-33 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for further instructions.

A comparison between the Tasmanian WRA and New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) systems is not available at this time. Similarly, a comparison between the Future Farm Industries Environmental WRA and the NSW WRM system is not available, although a number of questions are the same or similar. 

Risk assessments are constantly being added to the Weeds Australia site.

23. Can I use the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) assessments already available?

These are available on the WRM page. Yes, after carefully checking that all the answers in the assessment are applicable to your area. You do not need to supply reference information in this case. For further details, see pages 11 and 13 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF).

24. Some of our Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds are declared as Regionally Prohibited (Class 2) and/or Regionally Controlled (Class 3) weeds in other areas of the state. Do we need to assess these weeds if Industry and Investment NSW have already assessed these? How can we access these assessments?

Yes, you should use the NSW WRM system to assess these weeds. DPI have used the NSW WRM system to assess all species that are declared anywhere in the state as State Prohibited (Class 1), Regionally Prohibited (Class 2) and Regionally Controlled (Class 3) weeds.

DPI is happy to provide an electronic copy of these assessments that can be adapted to your area. These assessments can be obtained from:

Dr Stephen Johnson - Weed Ecologist
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Locked Bag 21
Orange NSW 2800
Phone: 02 6391 3146
Fax: 02 6391 3206
email: stephen.johnson@dpi.nsw.gov.au 

Taking a regional approach to getting assessments done

25. Can we submit an assessment of a Locally Controlled (Class 4) weed that covers more than one local control authority?

DPI encourages you to work with staff from other local control authorities in your region to assess any number of Locally Controlled (Class 4) weeds.

If a regional assessment of the species is done then this fact should be mentioned in the covering letter from your local control authority. The completed NSW WRM form (both electronic and paper copies) only needs to be sent in once, that is by one local control authority, not by all local control authorities that participated in the regional assessment.

26. Can a group of us do assessments together, for example local control authority weed officers sitting around the table?

DPI encourages you to do assessments together with as many people as you feel are helpful to the process. This group of relevant stakeholders and experts will, most commonly, be a number of regional local control authority weed officers sitting around the table. This process will help to ensure that many information sources are brought to the assessment process. A group approach will also help eliminate individual subjectivity in responses.

The names of the participants in any such working group should be recorded on the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) assessment form.

If these participants provide personal communication, observations and unpublished data, you need to provide details of each person supplying this information somewhere on the NSW WRM assessment form, for example the references and other comments section at the bottom of the form. Refer to pages 10 and 13 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF) for further instructions.

Use the keyboard buttons “Alt” and “Enter’ together to open up a new line in the NSW WRM assessment form.

Changed, new and removal of weeds from declaration

27. What happens if we want to change the declaration of a species?

Applicants are welcome to request changes in the declaration of a species. DPI will review all requests and make appropriate recommendations.

Declaration changes may be for:

1. changing the declaration of any species from one class to another;
2. the declaration of a species not currently declared; and/or
3. the removal from declaration of a species (see below).

The application process for any of the above is the same and has been modified from the new declaration process, for this review only.

The application process for this review only is as follows:

1. an assessment of the weed is made using the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system;
2. the applicant requests an appropriate control class and control measure; and
3. the applicant submits the NSW WRM assessment page for that species with a request (in a short covering letter) that an appropriate change be made (although see Question 11 for guidance on the paperwork/files to submit).

Any number of changes can be requested using the one covering letter, so long as a NSW WRM assessment for each weed accompanies the covering letter.

28. What happens if we want to declare a new weed species?

Applicants are welcome to request the declaration of a weed/s that are not currently declared noxious in their area. DPI will review all requests and make appropriate recommendations.

The application process for declaring a new species is outlined above.

29. What happens if we want to remove a Locally Controlled (Class 4) weed from declaration?

There are two options available to you if you wish to remove any Locally Controlled (Class 4) weed from declaration.

29a. You are welcome to submit a completed New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) assessment for all weeds that you would like removed from declaration and then explicitly request the removal of these weeds in a covering letter. While requiring a NSW WRM assessment on your part, this process will help fast-track any recommendation that needs to be made by the Department with respect to your request.

29b. Alternatively, DPI will assume that you wish to remove from declaration any Locally Controlled (Class 4) weed that you do not submit a WRM assessment for. DPI will confirm this assumption by sending one letter of confirmation to your General Manager after June 30 2010. No reply will be taken as confirmation of this assumption.

Note that all requests for removal will be assessed by DPI, and, if appropriate, will be recommended for removal.

Time and information needed for an assessment

30. How long do you think each weed assessment will take?

This depends on a number of factors.  If you have all the information at hand it is possible to do an assessment in less than three hours.

The time needed for assessments will increase if you need to search for reference material and/or contact people.

31. Where can I find information to help me do the assessments?

It is important to use accurate information when you are completing the questions in the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system.

In the first instance, information on many species can be found in:

Parsons, W. T. and Cuthbertson. E. G. (2001). Noxious weeds of Australia. CSIRO publishing, Collingwood, Victoria.

Some other useful information sources can be found on pages 27-28 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF). There are a number of other information sources and these can be loosely grouped into the following categories:

• books, including proceedings from conferences;
• the internet;
• extension publications, for example Primefacts and Weed Management Guides;
• personal observations, personal communication and unpublished data,
• journal papers;
• plant identification CD’s; and
• published weed risk assessments in either book form or from assessment sheets.

Further information on each of these information source categories can be found on pages 8-13 of the NSW WRM system Background Information book (545 kb, PDF).

What happens if I am uncertain about some of the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system answers?

32. I do not understand the uncertainty score?

Every effort should be made to answer the questions in the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system accurately using the best information sources you can find like journal papers, books, risk assessments, conference proceedings, extension publications and the internet (listed in general order of decreasing reliability). If necessary, you should seek information from other sources, for example, a wider internet search, larger libraries, other weeds officers, or by consulting DPI staff who may be able to identify any other published or unpublished information. Answering questions in a working group of relevant stakeholders and experts can also help overcome knowledge gaps.

In some cases though, the necessary information may not be available, or may not be known because there has not been enough research performed on the species. In these cases, it is appropriate to answer the ‘do not know’ response/s (for example see Figure 1 below).

When answering the ‘do not know’ question an average score is automatically allocated to the response. This avoids bias and minimises error. Some degree of uncertainty is therefore introduced when one or more questions are answered as ‘do not know’ responses.

There is always some uncertainty in life, but too much uncertainty can cast doubt on any decisions made. This is the same with the NSW WRM system.

The uncertainty index has been designed to encourage accurate assessments, while allowing some degree of uncertainty to exist. Details on calculation of the uncertainty index for the Weed Risk Assessment section and for the Feasibility of Coordinated Control section can be found on pages 46 and 70 respectively in the NSW WRM system Instruction Book (1.4 mb, PDF). An overall uncertainty score is calculated based on these calculations and can be found on pages 72 and 73 in the NSW WRM system Instruction Book.

The electronic NSW WRM form (242 kb , XLS) calculates the overall uncertainty score automatically.

33. What happens if my uncertainty score is greater than 15%?

The overall uncertainty score will be considered in submitted assessments. There are three levels of response (see below).

Assessments with an overall uncertainty level of less than 15% will be checked by DPI staff and generally accepted.

Assessments with an overall uncertainty level of between 15 and 30% may be returned to the assessors with suggestions as to further literature that should be searched and included before resubmitting the assessment. The electronic New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) form will state “More information required” in this case.

Assessments with an overall uncertainty level greater than 30% should not be submitted. The electronic NSW WRM form will state “Do not submit” in this case.

Contact NSW DPI staff for assistance in locating information.

Review of declarations by NSW Department of Primary Industries

34. What happens after our assessments are submitted?

DPI will be pleased to assess New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) assessments and any suggested control measures received up to 30 June 2010.

These applications will be reviewed by DPI staff. If needed, further consultation with applicants or other specific affected stakeholders may occur.

Recommendations from this process will be made to the Noxious Weeds Advisory Committee.

Subsequently, a brief is prepared for the Minister responsible for the Noxious Weeds Act 1993. This brief requests that statutory public consultation occurs for any recommendations for noxious weed declarations (whether new or continuing declarations).

Section 9 of the Noxious Weeds Act 1993 details the public consultation procedures.

This process involves public advertisement of the noxious weed declarations. All affected stakeholders are able to make comment during this public consultation process.

Public consultation represents the first opportunity that applicants will have to see if their applications have been successful. Please note that declarations are not final until any comments received through the public consultation process have been assessed and recommendations made.

Subsequent to the public consultation process, a second brief is prepared for the Minister responsible for the Noxious Weeds Act 1993. This brief requests that the Minister gazette any changes to the weeds declared under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993.

The new weed control order is published in the Government Gazette.

DPI will advise all applicants of the outcome of their applications subsequent to gazettal.

35. When will we know if our assessment requests have been successful?

DPI will advise all applicants of the outcome of their applications after the gazettal of the final weed control order in the government gazette.

Because Ministerial processes and recommendations are bound by confidentiality, DPI are unable to advise applicants of the progress of their applications prior to gazettal.

Training to use the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system

36. I want to be trained in the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system. Who do I contact?

DPI run training programs on the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system.

Need more information?

37. Who do I contact for more information about the New South Wales Weed Risk Management (NSW WRM) system?

In the first instance, you should contact your nearest DPI weed coordinator for more information, or if you have questions that are not covered above. If the weed coordinator is unavailable or not able to answer your question, direct your query to:

Mr Mich Michelmore
NSW Department of Primary Industries
PO Box 389
Goulburn NSW 2580
Phone: 02 4828 6617
Fax: 02 4822 3261
email:  michael.michelmore@dpi.nsw.gov.au

38. Who do I contact for more information about the review of the Noxious Weeds Act 1993?

The NSW WRM system is being used to assess the declarations of weeds declared under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993. A review of the Noxious Weeds Act 1993 is also occurring. If you would like further information about that review, please contact:

Mr Syd Lisle - Leader Invasive Species State Programs
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Private Mail Bag
Wagga Wagga NSW 2650
Phone: 02 6938 1911
Fax: 02 6938 1809
email: sydney.lisle@dpi.nsw.gov.au