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The remote eastern area of the Gascoyne is a place of significant cultural, natural and historical attraction. It offers a magnificent arid landscape, spectacular river systems and the Mt Augustus and Kennedy Range National Parks. Mt Augustus, at the heart of this area, is a spectacular sandstone and conglomerate rock expanse commonly promoted as the world’s largest monocline.
Industry in this remote area includes small mining interests, a large pastoral presence and a fledgling tourism industry that services a small but growing number of visitors as the demand for an outback experience increases.
The growing interest in tourism (including cultural tourism), agricultural opportunities and mining exploration supported the need for a collaborative approach to development in the area. This was the catalyst for the formation of a Cabinet endorsed Taskforce to prepare and implement a comprehensive development plan for the Mt Augustus and inland Gascoyne.
The Taskforce is chaired and its activities coordinated by the Gascoyne Development Commission.
Focus areas include:
- Tourism development – accommodation, visitor experiences.
- Horticulture – crop potential and development.
- Roads – interregional links, signs, safety.
- Indigenous training and development – Burringurrah Aboriginal Community.
- Land tenure.
- Rangeland management.
The Taskforce, in consultation with communities in the region, can help to pave the way for a number of economic and social development options for the remote inland area of the Gascoyne.
Agencies and organisations represented on the Taskforce include the GDC, Department of Agriculture and Food WA, Department of Environment and Conservation, Department for Planning and Infrastructure, Tourism WA, Burringurrah Aboriginal Community, Australia’s Golden Outback and the Shires of Upper Gascoyne and Carnarvon.
Main Roads WA and the Natural Resource Management Rangelands Coordination Group also attend Taskforce meetings.