Coastal Management Act 2016

to protect and enhance natural coastal processes and coastal environmental values including natural character, scenic value, biological diversity and ecosystem integrity and resilience, and

to support the social and cultural values of the coastal zone and maintain public access, amenity, use and safety, and

to acknowledge Aboriginal peoples’ spiritual, social, customary and economic use of the coastal zone, and

to recognise the coastal zone as a vital economic zone and to support sustainable coastal economies, and

to facilitate ecologically sustainable development in the coastal zone and promote sustainable land use planning decision-making, and

to mitigate current and future risks from coastal hazards, taking into account the effects of climate change, and

to recognise that the local and regional scale effects of coastal processes, and the inherently ambulatory and dynamic nature of the shoreline, may result in the loss of coastal land to the sea (including estuaries and other arms of the sea), and to manage coastal use and development accordingly, and

to promote integrated and co-ordinated coastal planning, management and reporting, and

to encourage and promote plans and strategies to improve the resilience of coastal assets to the impacts of an uncertain climate future including impacts of extreme storm events, and

to ensure co-ordination of the policies and activities of government and public authorities relating to the coastal zone and to facilitate the proper integration of their management activities, and

to support public participation in coastal management and planning and greater public awareness, education and understanding of coastal processes and management actions, and

to facilitate the identification of land in the coastal zone for acquisition by public or local authorities in order to promote the protection, enhancement, maintenance and restoration of the environment of the coastal zone, and

to support the objects of the Marine Estate Management Act 2014.