Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions (2016)

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. \n\nThe 2016 version 2 updates the marine portion of the NRM regions to be consistent with the current (2015) Australian Maritime Boundaries Information System (AMBIS) coastal water limit boundary. It also includes a new unique ID field for sorting purposes (this is explained in detail below). Three NRM names have also been updated as a result of new information from relevant state/territory agencies and/or NRM regional bodies, as follows: \n\n1. “Avon” changed to “Wheatbelt”\n2. “North West” changed to “Cradle Coast”\n\nThe 2016 version 2 maintains definitions established in the 2015 version, including for the Peel-Harvey NRM region and for the OceanWatch Australia Limited NRM organisation (not spatially defined). It also maintains changes made in earlier versions including: the 2014 changes in NSW from Catchment Management Authorities (CMA) to Local Land Service areas; and the 2012 update/formalisation of the 2010 dataset (which was an interim update of the NRM Regions 2009 dataset, released Feb 2009). The original base layer version of this dataset was released in 2006 as the Natural Heritage Trust II (NHT2) Region Boundaries dataset. \n\nWhilst 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.\n\nIn total, this dataset now represents 61 NRM regions, two of which have large and remote islands which are distinguished in the spatial data, resulting in 63 map objects. The 61 NRM regions comprise 56 mainland regions administered by 55 NRM regional bodies (the Cooperative Management Area in QLD is jointly administered by the two adjacent regional bodies: the Cape York and Northern Gulf NRM bodies) and seven islands (five administered by the Australian Government as external territories, and two administered by nearby mainland NRM regional bodies, which are shown as separate map objects).\n\nThe 2016 version 2 includes a new unique ID field in the table structure to allow for sorting based on state, region name and region object (where there is more than one part). The following list of regions includes the new NRM_ID field as a reference:\n\nNew South Wales\t\n1010\tCentral Tablelands\n1020\tCentral West\n1030\tGreater Sydney\n1040\tHunter\n1050\tMurray\n1060\tNorth Coast (excluding Lord Howe Island)\n1061\tNorth Coast - Lord Howe Island\n1070\tNorth West NSW\n1080\tNorthern Tablelands\n1090\tRiverina\n1100\tSouth East NSW\n1110\tWestern\n\nVictoria\t\n2010\tCorangamite\n2020\tEast Gippsland\n2030\tGlenelg Hopkins\n2040\tGoulburn Broken\n2050\tMallee\n2060\tNorth Central\n2070\tNorth East\n2080\tPort Phillip and Western Port\n2090\tWest Gippsland \n2100\tWimmera\n\nQueensland\t\n3010\tBurnett Mary\n3020\tCape York\n3030\tCondamine\n3040\tCooperative Management Area (administered jointly by Cape York and Northern Gulf)\n3050\tDesert Channels\n3060\tFitzroy \n3070\tBurdekin\n3080\tNorthern Gulf\n3090\tBorder Rivers Maranoa-Balonne\n3100\tMackay Whitsunday\n3110\tSouth East Queensland\n3120\tSouth West Queensland\n3130\tSouthern Gulf\n3140\tWet Tropics\n3150\tTorres Strait\n\nSouth Australia\t\n4010\tAdelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges\n4020\tAlinytjara Wilurara\n4030\tEyre Peninsula\n4040\tKangaroo Island\n4050\tNorthern and Yorke\n4060\tSouth Australian Arid Lands\n4070\tSouth Australian Murray Darling Basin\n4080\tSouth East\n\nWestern Australia\t\n5010\tNorthern Agricultural\n5020\tPeel-Harvey\n5030\tPerth\n5040\tRangelands\n5050\tSouth Coast\n5060\tSouth West\n5070\tWheatbelt\n\nTasmania\t\n6010\tCradle Coast\n6020\tNorth\n6030\tSouth (excluding Macquarie Islands)\n6031\tSouth - Macquarie Islands\n\nNorthern Territory\t\n7010\tNorthern Territory\n\nAustralian Capital Territory\t\n8010\tACT\n\nExternal Territories \t\n9010\tAshmore and Cartier Islands\n9020\tChristmas Island\n9030\tCocos Keeling Islands\n9040\tHeard and McDonald Islands\n9050\tNorfolk IslandData to be available in the Public Domain under Creative Commons by Attribution Licensing Agreement. \nMore information can be found here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en\nCC - Attribution (CC BY)\n© Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment) 2015