Natural Resource Management (NRM) Regions (2017)

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.

The principle data fields in the 2017 version dataset are:
•	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)
© Commonwealth of Australia (Department of the Environment and Energy) 2017

Tags: BOUNDARIES Administrative_Conservation, BOUNDARIES Administrative_Management, Offline Data
Organization: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water