WA Govt is conducting a review on all Nature Based camping

I located the draft plan in PDF format but no luck with the questionnaire.

Bruce, Microsoft Office Word (version 2007 and above) is the primary software program used to open DOCX files. If you have an earlier version of Microsoft Word, you can download the free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack to open, edit, and save DOCX files in your older version of MS Word. Here's the link to where to go to download it - Microsoft Compatability Pack Link

...you can can get an "add on" for older versions of MS Word that allows then to read the newer *.docx files...if that helps.

Cheers
Greg

woooops :)

Thank you Michelle and Greg.

I'll get on to it tomorrow.
Thanks again, Bruce.

There is absolutely no need to upgrade your MicroSoft Office to read DOCX documents. Just download and install LibreOffice. It is free. It will open any M$ document. We have used it at our computer club when PPS documents refused to run on the clubs Office programme.

When downloading the programme change the sdrop down box to GB English (we don't want the Yankee spell check do we.) Download both the LibreOffice_4.1.5.2_Win_x86.msi and the file and then install them in that order. The second install file gives you the help section and proper English addons.

I have not had a M$ office product on my machines this century. OpenOffice or LibreOffice need less learning each time they are upgraded. They are better for those who understand the older versions of Office.

"There is absolutely no need to upgrade your MicroSoft Office to read DOCX documents"

Well there is if you already have and are happy with an older, paid up version of MS Office and want to open *.docx. files. The Compatibility Pack is free. There is absolutely no need to download and install another program and then go to the trouble of learning how to use it (no matter how easy it is) when what you have will work fine.

Lets not turn this into a MS bashing exercise. If you don't have MS Word (or do, but don't like it) and want to open *.docx files (or whatever) ..fine, research your options.

Cheers
Greg

The .docx would not open for me from either link and I have all the right versions, saying there were errors n the document so I doubt anyone will get it to open correctly. However the .pdf link ofthe same document did work. The guidelines are also available on line Nature Based Camping Guidelines

I have spend today working on the questionnaire on the guidelines for the proposed nature based camping, and I am up to the hard additional question:

"Will the provision of more nature-based parks reduce illegal camping? How do you think illegal camping can be better regulated?"

Motherhen

I can open both the on line version, and the .docx questionnaire from the links. I have attached the latter for anyone who is having trouble downloading in both .docx and .doc formats.





Mh

While i agree the survey and the guidelines confine themselves to "Nature Based Campgrounds" there are questions that can lead into other areas such as

"11. Will the provision of more nature-based parks reduce illegal camping? How do you think illegal camping can be better regulated?'

There is no real definition of what is classed as Illegal Camping in the guidelines. I remember when they first brought in the "requirement" that if anyone was in such and such a distance from a caravan park they were not allowed to camp.
To me it is always the thin edge of the wedge, I do not trust the actual and sometimes hidden motives behind these changes. How many times have there been challenges to free camping areas and rules by caravan park associations and owners in the hope that if there are fewer of them that business will be driven their way.

Hi KBAD

It will probably take me longer on that one questions than on the rest of the questionnaire.

The regulations they fall back on are:

Western Australia
Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Act 1995
Caravan Parks and Camping Grounds Regulations 1997

http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/legislation/statutes.nsf/main_mrtitle_1204_homepage.html

Regulation 11

Extract

" (1) A person may camp —
(a) for up to 3 nights in any period of 28 consecutive days on land which he or she owns or has a legal right to occupy, and may camp for longer than 3 nights on such land if he or she has written approval under subregulation (2) and is complying with that approval;
(b) for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road side rest area;
(c) for up to 24 consecutive hours in a caravan or other vehicle on a road reserve in an emergency, unless to do so would cause a hazard to other road users or contravene any other written law with respect to the use of the road reserve;
(d) on any land which is —
(i) held by a State instrumentality in freehold or leasehold; or
(ii) dedicated, reserved, or set apart under the Land Administration Act 1997 or any other written law, and placed under the care, control or management of a State instrumentality,
in accordance with the permission of that instrumentality; or
(e) on any unallocated Crown land or unmanaged reserve, in accordance with the permission of the Minister within the meaning of the Land Administration Act 1997, or a person authorised by the Minister to give permission under this paragraph. "

Some Shires use this to say you can't camp in their Shires, and others use it to let you for up to three days on their land or in roadside rest areas. Those that take the hard line say "get the permission from the landholder in writing".

Mh