Membership - Previous ALC members

Members of the Australian Landcare Council 11/02/04, Canberra (ALC 27)

Back Row: Darren Aisthorpe (QLD), Joe Keynes (SA), Rod Applegate (NRMMC), Ian Sauer (TAS), Corey Watts (ACF).

Middle Row: John Chester (Indigenous), Ian Chalmers (ALGA), Warwick Ragg (AFG), Jim Forwood (NT), Val Wiseman (ACT), Coral Love (NLFP), Alex Arbuthnot (VIC), Peter Watts (ALGA), Ken Stallman (QLD), John Klem (NSW)

Front Row: Shelley Cooper (Executive Officer), Pippa Carron (Secretary) Bobbie Brazil (QLD) Barbara Morrell (WA), Alison Teese (VIC), Bruce Lloyd (Chairman)

Members of the Australian Landcare Council 15/10/02, Burdekin River (ALC 22)

Back Row: Darren Aisthorpe (Qld), Ian Sauer (Tas), Ron Cullin (AFFA), Allan Piggott (SA), Guest, Charlie Sherwin (ACF), Rhondda Dickson (AFFA), Peter Dark (Vic)

Middle Row: John Klem (NSW), Drew English (MDBC), Val Wiseman (ACT), Bruce Lloyd (Chairman), Bobbie Brazil (Qld), Guest, Jim Forwood (NT), Ken Stallman (Qld)

Front Row: Merv Pyott (Guest), Coral Love (NLFP), Barbara Morrell (WA), Pippa Carron (Secretary), Shelly Cooper (Executive Officer), Peter Watts (ALGA)

Chairman - Mr Bruce Lloyd (1997 - 2005)

Bruce is an irrigation dairy farmer at Shepparton in southeastern Australia having retired in 1996 after 25 years as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Federal Parliament. He has lived on, worked on and/or owned the family farm since leaving school.

In Parliament he represented a rural electorate and, during that time, served as Parliamentary Secretary for Primary Industry (Agriculture), Shadow Minister (Opposition Spokesman) for a number of portfolios including Primary Industry for six years, and a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment. He was also Deputy Leader of the National Party for six years.

Bruce was Chairman of the Australian Landcare Council from 1997 until May 2005. He is currently still a member of  the Natural Heritage Trust Advisory Committee, the National Gene Technology Community Consultative Committee, the National Greenhouse and Agriculture Task Force, the Plant Breeder’s Rights Advisory Committee and the National Agricultural EMS Advisory Committee.

His interests and commitment are to rural and regional Australia and their sustainable future.