Canning Permits.

Wayne, what's this cost business ? I thought that transit permits were always free ? Obviously I lead a sheltered life !

Hi Wayne,
We are in the process, at the moment we are waiting for the information pack to be made available.
The information pack, I'm told, will be similiar to the Desert Parks pass for the Simpson.

You are right, there is a cost but unable to be told how much at this stage.

For your information, Calvert Ranges is a No go area.

Regards
Alan

$50 isn't excessive BUT it's an impost on top of a restriction. I'll bet that most of it goes in administration.
Sad to see another icon becoming just another money grabbing exercise.

Wayne,
If they can't provide you with a permit, because the procedure is not in place, then they can hardly complain if you don't have one.

Have a great season out there. We'll look out for you in August.
Cheers
Phil

Funny I was talking about this to Peter on the weekend.
He didn't put on a trip this year for that very reason no one knows what is going on
wait till next season when the dust settles.

all the best
Eric

Hi Wayne,
Saw my mate tonight and sorry there are no new developments to date, we are still waiting for this information pack to be produced.

Apparently this information pack will contain do's and don'ts for CSR, as said, a bit like the desert parks pass for the Simpson.

Interestingly its not the aboriginal land council that's causing the delays, we've been told its a 4wd club in WA who is administering the permit system thats holding up the proceedings. True or not, don't know, but thats what we've been told.

Will post a thread if any new information comes.

Cheers
Alan

Hi everyone,
As I originally submitted Post ID 43025 when the information came out that there would be restrictions for access off the CSR. I said I would post more information...

To give some background - the day before I made the post, I received a letter from the Native Title Project Officer of the Ngaanyatjarra Council operating from Perth, to advise that they were implementing a permit system with assistance from the Australian National Four Wheel Drive Council (governing 4WD club body operating in the Eastern States) who had approached them with the offer to administer it. They advised that the permit would in place by the beginning of May. It was the first we'd heard about it, and it was advance information that had not yet been distributed but I was allowed to put a post in our Forum as you all know.

I was told this was a web-based permit system. We were never invited to tender, nor asked if we would be interested to help.

So since learning of this, I spoke with numerous stakeholders about some concerns. When I discovered that the Martu people actually don't require a fee to be payable to them for the permits, and that the fee that ANFWDC would charge was to cover the admin costs they had forecast, we quickly stepped in and offered what we thought was an easy solution for everyone especially since they ANFWDC did not yet have the online permit system capability and they seemed to have some complications with it that we would not have.

What we did was put in a counter offer to the Ngaanyatjarra Council that we would administer the permit for FREE and have it online within 24hrs of them giving us the necessary information. We genuinely thought this would be the most sensible solution and that it would solve lots of problems since we are based in WA, and we are already a very strong agent for the National Parks permits throughout the whole of WA and for the SA Desert Parks Pass and have the infrastructure to handle the admin of it. It would seem to make sense that people should be able to get this permit from us and we want nothing for it.

The response we received to this offer was 2nd April via an invitation to attend a Western Desert Lands Aboriginal Corporation (WDLAC) meeting in Parnngurr (Cotton Creek) for 17th May (now changed to Jiggalong). So we had thought there was consideration for this and it would be fleshed out at this meeting.

However, last week I was advised that our offer could not be considered as the ANFWDC offer had been approved and was already underway. We obviously have no intention of offending the ANFWDC and there is little point in us incurring travel costs and time to attend the meeting so we can't help out anymore on this issue.

So, yes it's up the ANFWDC to get the permit up and running. I don't believe there is a a 4WD Club in WA involved at all, but I may be wrong. It's a shame they didn't come to us first.