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                <gco:CharacterString>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.

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•    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)
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