The Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions dataset is maintained for the purpose of authoritative reporting on the Australian Government's NRM investments. The dataset is designed to cover all Australian territory where Australian Government funded NRM projects might take place and includes major islands, external territories, and state and coastal waters in addition to the NRM regional boundaries.
Whilst the boundaries of NRM Regions are defined by legislation in some states and territories, this dataset should not be used to represent legal boundaries in any way. It is an administrative dataset developed for the purpose of reporting and public information. It should be noted that from time to time the states and/or territories may revise their regional boundaries in accordance with local needs and therefore alterations to either the attribution or boundaries of the data may occur in the future.
Current Version
In total, the 2017 version dataset comprises 63 map objects for 61 NRM regions. These comprise 56 mainland regions (of which two have associated large islands as distinct map objects) and a further five external territory islands.
The 2017 version updates the previous version (2016 version 2) with changes to boundaries of six of Western Australia’s seven NRM regions (only Peel-Harvey Region is unchanged). The new WA boundaries are as agreed during 2017 by NRMWA, a collective of all incorporated NRM groups in that state.
There are a few changes of NRM names in Qld, Tas and WA from the 2016 version based on line area’s suggestion.
The 2017 version also removes the NRM_BODY data (added for 2016 version 2) and the non-spatial OceanWatch map label previously included. These two changes relate to Australian Government administrative arrangements for NRM funding delivery.
The principle data fields in the 2017 version dataset are:
• NRM_Region
• State
• Area_Description (land area, state and coastal waters, territorial sea, Torres Strait)
• NRM_ID
NRM_ID and NRM_Region Names grouped by state/territory are as follows:
New South Wales (11 regions + 1 extra map object for Lord Howe Island)
1010 Central Tablelands
1020 Central West
1030 Greater Sydney
1040 Hunter
1050 Murray
1060 North Coast (excludes Lord Howe Island)
1061 North Coast - Lord Howe Island
1070 North West NSW
1080 Northern Tablelands
1090 Riverina
1100 South East NSW
1110 Western
Victoria (10 regions)
2010 Corangamite
2020 East Gippsland
2030 Glenelg Hopkins
2040 Goulburn Broken
2050 Mallee
2060 North Central
2070 North East
2080 Port Phillip and Western Port
2090 West Gippsland
2100 Wimmera
Queensland (15 regions)
3010 Burnett Mary
3020 Cape York
3030 Condamine
3040 Co-operative Management Area (between Cape York and Northern Gulf)
3050 Desert Channels
3060 Fitzroy
3070 Burdekin
3080 Northern Gulf
3090 Maranoa Balonne and Border Rivers
3100 Mackay Whitsunday
3110 South East Queensland
3120 South West Queensland
3130 Southern Gulf
3140 Wet Tropics
3150 Torres Strait
South Australia (8 regions)
4010 Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges
4020 Alinytjara Wilurara
4030 Eyre Peninsula
4040 Kangaroo Island
4050 Northern and Yorke
4060 South Australian Arid Lands
4070 South Australian Murray Darling Basin
4080 South East
Western Australia (7 regions)
5010 Northern Agricultural Region
5020 Peel-Harvey Region
5030 Swan Region
5040 Rangelands Region
5050 South Coast Region
5060 South West Region
5070 Avon River Basin
Tasmania (3 regions + 1 extra map object for Macquarie Island)
6010 North West NRM Region
6020 North NRM Region
6030 South NRM Region (excludes Macquarie Islands)
6031 South NRM Region - Macquarie Islands
Northern Territory (1 region)
7010 Northern Territory
Australian Capital Territory (1 region)
8010 ACT
External Territories (5 regions)
9010 Ashmore and Cartier Islands
9020 Christmas Island
9030 Cocos Keeling Islands
9040 Heard and McDonald Islands
9050 Norfolk IslandData to be available in the Public Domain under Creative Commons by Attribution Licensing Agreement.
More information can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) 2017
