Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions (2017)

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 CC - Attribution (CC BY) © Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) 2017