Reports, media product, correspondence and other documents regarding Victorian grazing trial, 2011

 
Containers:
Box 34 (MS 10563)
Component identifier:
File 382
Content Summary:

Assorted documents relating to Victoria's alpine cattle grazing trial, which were originally enclosed in a large Australia Post envelope in file 381:

Large annotated Australia Post Express Post envelope addressed to Alec Costin from Martin Callinan at the Australian Academy of Science, Canberra. Annotations include detailed notes (on reverse).

envelope containing correspondence and brief report. Envelope addressed to Alec Costin from Graeme Worboys. Correspondence includes identical letters addressed respectively to Ryan Smith (Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Victoria) and Tony Bourke (Federal Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities) from Nikita Lopoukhine (Chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature World Commission on Protected Areas) regarding concerns over the re-introduction of grazing in the Alpine National Park of Victoria. The letter was also sent to Ted Baillieu (Premier of Victoria) and cc'd to Ryan Smith (Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Victoria). Correspondence also includes one covering note (on pink sticky note) from Graeme Worboys to Alec Costin. Brief report is entitled "Alpine national park of Victoria grazing" by Carruthers Group (Roger Good, convenor).

Victorian government documents including document outlining Victorian government "Key messages" for the MCAV (Mountain Cattlemen of Victoria) meeting; brief report "Communications approach"; brief report "Questions and answers" [media talking points?]. Also includes covering note (on yellow sticky note) from Martin [Callinan?] to Alec Costin.

Documents regarding Victoria's alpine cattle grazing trial including media reports (website printouts); a media release from Ryan Smith; and correspondence variously from Martin Callinan and a large group of concerned scientists. Also includes one covering note (on yellow sticky note) from Martin Callinan to Alec Costin.

Immediate source of acquisition:
This large and diverse collection was compiled by Alec Costin then organised and catalogued by the eScholarship Research Centre at The University of Melbourne from 2017-2019. The collection was then transferred to the National Library of Australia in 2020.

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Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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