ANZLIC

 

 

 

The ANZLIC Council comprises eleven senior officials from the Australian and New Zealand Governments, and the governments of the States and Territories of Australia.  Click here for Council Members list

 

They are generally responsible within their jurisdiction for coordinating spatial information policy and operational matters. New South Wales currently chairs ANZLIC. The Council meets three times per year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANZLIC – the Spatial Information Council (ANZLIC) is a joint initiative of the Australian and New Zealand Governments, and the State and Territory Governments of Australia. 

 

ANZLIC was originally established in January 1986 as the Australian Land Information Council (ALIC) by agreement between the Australian Prime Minister and the heads of the State and Territory governments in response to a clear and growing need to:

 

-          Coordinate the collection and transfer of land-related information between the different levels of government; and

-          Promote the use of that information in decision making.

 

There had been minimal coordination on a national scale and so ANZLIC arose from the need to focus national coordination of land information management.  A national conference entitled “Better Land Related-Information for Policy Decisions”, held in 1984 and attended by representatives from the three spheres of government in Australia, recommended that a peak national coordinating council be formed.  This council would comprise the respective chairpersons of the various land information councils in each of the jurisdictions and would be given the role of promoting and developing a national strategy to facilitate the exchange of land information.

 

The Commonwealth Government, all Australian States (except Queensland) and the Northern Territory were represented on the council. Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory were represented for the first time as observers in 1989 and were subsequently accepted as full members.  New Zealand was represented on ALIC and the Advisory Committee from 1987, with the same participating rights as the Australian members.

 

In November 1991, New Zealand formally became a full member and the Council was renamed ANZLIC. In 1994 the Australian Local Government Association was invited to participate in ANZLIC as an observer.

 

ANZLIC established a national office in 2001.  The national office works with ANZLIC Council, standing committees, working groups, jurisdictions and allied bodies to assist with the implementation of ANZLIC's work program.  ANZLIC funds the national office based in Canberra, comprising three full-time staff, and augmented from time to time by consultants.

 

All ten ANZLIC jurisdictions finance ANZLIC's operations and projects. ANZLIC is a not-for-profit organisation and all subscriptions raised contribute to the operation of a national office and management of projects as directed by the Council. Subscriptions comprise an administrative charge and, for Australian jurisdictions, a further charge based on population to cover project costs.

 

 

 

 

 

ANZLIC  is the peak Government body in Australia and New Zealand with the core responsibility for the stewardship of spatial information.

 

The key role of ANZLIC is to develop policies and strategies to promote accessibility to and usability of spatial information. ANZLIC has an advocacy role and is pivotal as the core link between government and other members of the broad spatial information industry base.

 

The Council's vision is that Australia's and New Zealand's economic growth, and social and environmental interests are underpinned by spatially referenced information that is current, complete, accurate, affordable, accessible and integratable.

 

Spatial information is at the core of a number of services, from traditional surveying to contemporary applications as diverse as ambulance dispatch services, bushfire management and commercial asset mapping and planning. Spatial information has scientific and technical links to many other disciplines such as environmental science, engineering, computer science, health delivery, logistics, planning, geography and electronics.

 

There can be many barriers to information access such as organisational boundaries between agencies, jurisdictions and nations; lack of consistent information standards; and use of incompatible or inappropriate technologies. ANZLIC is encouraging development of consistent government policies within Australia and New Zealand to minimise these barriers wherever possible and is working with all government jurisdictions and the private sector to develop policies and guidelines which adopt international best practice which is relevant to conditions found by practitioners and users of spatial information in both countries.

 

 

 

 

-          Spatial information as a critical component of Australia’s infrastructure

-          Good and accessible spatial information in the market place

-          Good public policy that addresses the need for vision, strategy settings and priorities and also market incentives in the spatial industry

-          The importance and definition of place/location and its importance to society

-          Development of evidence based policy and decision making using spatial information as an enabler particularly in the areas of social inclusion, health and transport