In the four years since the inception of the Lake Eyre Basin process, the people of the Basin worked hard to firstly design and establish a framework for catchment management in the Lake Eyre Basin and then to formulate these management plans. It was therefore with a great sense of achievement that the Coordinating Group and Catchment Committee members received their binder copies of 'A Future For All'.

But as outgoing Lake Eyre Basin Coordinating Group Chief Executive, Kate Andrews remarked, "This is not the end, this is only the beginning. We've done the planning, we know what needs to be done, it's time to get our hands dirty".

"And there is an enthusiasm on the part of everyone to do that. We are all eager to move further into the implementation phase of our work, to build on programs such as the Cross-Catchments Weeds Initiative.

"From our Birdsville meeting has come working groups on heritage tourism, information management and salinity, along with an endorsement of the work already being done on weeds.

"This is an exciting time for the people of the Lake Eyre Basin."