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and Environmental Management Authority. The Director will also build on partnerships with the Western Australia fisheries and marine park agencies, and research institutions that provide support to the day-to-day management of the North-west Network, while ensuring a consistent approach to managing marine parks around Australia.
Network advisory committee
To support collaborative management and achieve the vision for marine parks, the Director intends to establish an advisory committee for the North-west Network. The Director will work closely with the advisory committee and stakeholders to develop and implement management programs and actions for the Network.
The role of the advisory committee will be to support and collaborate with the Director to manage marine parks by:
  * helping to develop and deliver implementation plans, including assisting to prioritise management actions and develop performance measures;
  * providing information about stakeholder and park user views, knowledge and needs; and
  * contributing to the periodic evaluation and review of implementation plans.
Members will represent the broad range of marine park users, interests and knowledge about marine parks and may represent sectors such as commercial fishing, energy, Indigenous people, infrastructure, non-government organisations, recreational fishing, science, tourism, transport and the broader community. Membership and terms of reference for the committee will be developed in consultation with stakeholders as soon as practicable after the commencement of this plan.
Partnerships with traditional owners and Indigenous people
In implementing this plan, the Director acknowledges the national and international rights and cultural interests of Indigenous people and the deep understanding and experience that Indigenous people can contribute to the management of Australian Marine Parks. This includes international rights as detailed in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The Director also acknowledges that Indigenous people have been sustainably using and managing their sea country, including areas now in marine parks, since time immemorial.
The Director is committed to working with Indigenous people to manage sea country within marine parks and will achieve this through the Indigenous engagement program (Section 2.5). This includes building partnerships with traditional owners and Indigenous people with responsibilities for sea country.
The Director also acknowledges that traditional owners are the primary source of information on the value of their heritage. For this reason, the Director will seek the active participation of Indigenous people in the identification and management of cultural values in marine parks.
To inform our approach to managing marine parks, the Director has worked with representatives from land councils, native title representative bodies and Indigenous ranger groups to develop a set of collaborative management principles (Table 1.2) to support Indigenous involvement in the management of Australian Marine Parks. These principles will inform the approach to implementing this plan, as well as the development