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To achieve sustainability and prosperity with the planned outcome to increase economic, social and environmental benefits for Australian fishing and aquaculture, and the wider community by investing in knowledge, innovation and marketing.

Five new Australian Marine Park management plans covering 44 Australian Marine Parks came into effect on 1 July 2018. This bring the total of Australian Marine Parks managed by the Director of National Parks, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia, to 58 – covering around 1/3 of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone at some 2.7 million km2.

As part of the coming into effect the Australian Government provides transitional assistance to fishers directly affected by the new management arrangements as well as Grant to engage those sectors and groups with an interest in Australian Marine Parks the opportunity to undertake projects that contribute to their management.

The Package provides:

(i) Fishing Business Assistance Grant – assistance to directly affected commercial fishers with a recent history of fishing in Australian Marine Parks as they adjust their business to the new operating environment.

(ii) Our Marine Parks Grant – to help marine users and industries engage in marine park management. The first round of the element of the package closed on 12 March 2019. The second round will open in the second half of 2019.

(iii) Vessel Monitoring System Assistance -to encourage uptake of vessel monitoring systems. This element is being progressed through Parks Australia and fisheries management agencies.

(iv) Coral Sea Fishery Licence Buy-out – direct assistance to commercial fishers holding either trawl or trap endorsements in the Commonwealth managed Coral Sea Fishery through a voluntary licence buy-back based on the closure of 99.8% of the fishery to these methods.

The package is funded and managed through the Department of the Environment and Energy. Australian Marine Parks are Commonwealth reserves in Commonwealth marine areas declared under section 344 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The Director of National Parks manages Australian Marine Parks.

To encourages competitive investment and innovation in the Australian automotive industry in a way that will provide improved environmental outcomes and promote the development of workforce skills.

The program aimed to support a small number of demonstration projects to:
• capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial processes;
• provide transport infrastructure (generally pipelines); and
• safely store carbon dioxide underground in stable geological formations.

The Coal Mining Abatement Technology Support Package (CMATSP) was designed to provide assistance to the coal industry to reduce fugitive methane emissions, in particular ventilation air methane (VAM), by facilitating research and deployment of methane abatement technologies. The CMATSP also aimed to supplement and support the coal industry's own research activities to pilot innovative technologies to capture and mitigate methane emissions and to develop safe abatement practices.

The Key Capability Area Funding supported the development of projects that make a major contribution to the development of the ACT's Key Capability Areas of cyber security, renewable energy, space and spatial information, plant and agricultural sciences, healthy and active living and further education partnerships.

A strong and sustainable economy is essential to meet the needs of the Canberra community now and into the future. It is essential for the ACT to grow its economy by diversifying the non-public service sector. The education and research sector, and the sector specialisations and growth building assets within it, have been identified as a primary driver of long term wealth creation and jobs in the ACT economy.

The Key Capability Area Funding is part of the Government's election commitment to "provide funding to boost the capabilities in the Territory's key areas of strength."

In Confident & Business Ready: Building on Our Strengths, the ACT Government also committed to an economic development focus in its relationship with the higher education and research sector. In particular, the Government undertook to work with the institutions to support ongoing development of areas of strength and to stimulate economic growth in the ACT's Key Capability Areas.

The Priority Investment Program is a competitive funding program aimed at facilitating collaboration between the ACT Government, industry, research and tertiary education sectors to attract investment and grow priority sectors of Canberra's economy. (…)
The Program will target known priority sectors of cyber security, space, defence, renewable energy, agri-technology and education; areas where Canberra has known and established strengths. The Progam's design provides flexibility to enable the ACT Government to respond to other emerging investment opportunities that demonstrate strong potential, including from non-priority areas.

The NSW Government's Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program (BAP) introduced linkages between shares and catch or effort, giving fishers the ability to invest in their business with more certainty than ever before, and ensuring the long-term viability and sustainability of the NSW commercial fishing industry.

The purpose of the above subsidies and Grant were to offset the impact of the various stages of the Commercial Fisheries Business Adjustment Program (BAP) by:
• Assisting fishers to either exit the industry, purchase new shares, seek independent advice or obtain retraining, and assisting nominated fishers to establish themselves.
• Easing the burden of commercial fishery management fees & fishing boat licence fees during the BAP period.
• Assisting Fishing Cooperatives to adjust to changes in the industry by extending & subsidising leases on Crown Land.
• Promoting best practice, improving social licence with the broader community, and upskilling of commercial fishers.
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To provide bona-fide aquaculture businesses that are impacted by a natural disaster or disease event with short term (12 months) relief from NSW DPI aquaculture permit and lease fees and charges.

This program aims to achieve:
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• Environment - the environmental condition of the land is improved as a result of the capital works.
• Natural Resources - the value or quality of natural resources are improved as a result of the capital works.