· Initiatives of the previous Coalition Government included a Green Corps of 18,000 people who planted more than 14 million trees, erected more than 8000 kilometres of fencing and undertook more than 5000 flora and fauna surveys.

· The Coalition is developing a plan for a much larger, more capable full time conservation corps.

· This could comprise 15,000 people including short term trainees, regular workers and supervisors capable for supplying the skilled, motivated and sustained attention that large-scale environmental remediation needs.

· The next Coalition Government will work with stakeholders to resolve issues, noting that rivers don’t acknowledge state borders

· If the states remain unwilling to resolve issues by mid 2012 , a Coalition Government elected this year will put the issue to a referendum in conjunction with the 2013 election.