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Safeguards for airports and the communities around them

The Government has released a discussion paper on the safeguarding of aviation infrastructure and sought views by 31 July 2009 on how this national risk-based policy initiative may be developed.

On 2 December 2008, the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, released the National Aviation Policy Green Paper. The Aviation Green Paper included proposals relating to a more effective planning regime both on and off airport sites that does not compromise the effective use of airports or the safety of aviation activity.

The Aviation Green Paper indicated that a national risk-based ‘safeguarding’ policy and guidelines would be initiated with the release of a detailed discussion paper. The aim is to increase public safety and protect aviation infrastructure from inappropriate development around airports and under flight paths.

The discussion paper was prepared with the assistance of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, and in consultation with Airservices Australia, and the Department of Defence. It was designed to generate feedback from stakeholders on how a safeguarding policy could be implemented. Responses to the discussion paper formed the basis of the ongoing dialogue between this Department and stakeholders about how this initiative may be progressed. On 16 December 2009 the Government released the Aviation White Paper, ‘Flight Path to the Future’. Chapter 9 of the White Paper presented further refinements of the proposals that had been set out in the Green Paper and reflected input from the responses to the safeguarding discussion paper received by 31 July 2009.

Please note that all submissions are publicly available on the Department of Infrastructure and Transport website. Submissions that were requested to be confidential have not been included.

Submissions were to be made before 31 July 2009

by email to safeguarding@infrastructure.gov.au

Information on the progress of other initiatives can be found in the Aviation White Paper.

Submissions responding to the ‘Safeguards for airports and the communities around them’ discussion paper

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Last Updated: 9 January, 2012