{{Infobox organization | name = ANZLIC | full_name = The Spatial Information Council | native_name = <!-- organization's name in its local language --> | native_name_lang = <!-- required ISO 639-1 code of the above native language --> | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = | image_size = | image_alt = <!-- see WP:ALT --> | caption = | map = <!-- map image --> | map_size = <!-- defaults to 250px --> | map_alt = | map_caption = | map2 = <!-- 2nd map image, if required --> | map2_size = | map2_alt = | map2_caption = | abbreviation = | nickname = | pronunciation = | pronounce_ref = | pronounce_comment = | named_after = | predecessor = | merged_into = <!-- any other organization(s) which it was merged into --> | successor = | formation = {{start date and age|1986}} | founder = <!-- or |founders = --> | founding_location = | dissolved = <!-- or |defunct = --><!-- use {{end date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | merger = | type = <!-- e.g., Nonprofit, NGO, etc. --> | tax_id = <!-- or |vat_id = (for European organizations) --> | registration_id = <!-- for non-profits --> | status = <!-- legal status and/or description (company, charity, foundation, etc.) --> | purpose = <!-- or |focus = --><!-- humanitarian, activism, peacekeeping, etc. --> | professional_title = <!-- for professional associations --> | headquarters = | coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LON|display=inline,title}} --> | origins = | region_served = <!-- or |area_served = or |region = --> | products = <!-- or |product = --> | services = | methods = <!-- or |method = --> | fields = <!-- or |field = --> | membership = <!-- number of members --> | num_members_year = <!-- year to which membership numbers/data apply --> | language = <!-- or |languages = --><!-- any official language or languages used --> | owner = <!-- or |owners = --> | secretary_general = <!-- or |gen_sec for General Secretary --> | leader_title = <!-- defaults to "Leader" --> | leader_name = | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = | leader_title3 = | leader_name3 = | leader_title4 = | leader_name4 = | board_of_directors = | key_people = | main_organ = <!-- or |publication = --><!-- organization's principal body (assembly, committee, board, etc.) or publication --> | parent_organization = <!-- or |parent_organisation = --> | subsidiaries = | secessions = | affiliations = | budget = | budget_year = | revenue = | revenue_year = | disbursements = | expenses = | expenses_year = | endowment = | endowment_year = | num_staff = | num_staff_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | num_students = | num_students_year = | awards = | website = {{URL|www.anzlic.gov.au/}} | remarks = | former_name = Australian Land Information Council (ALIC); Australia and New Zealand Land Information Council (ANZLIC); Australia and New Zealand Spatial Information Council | footnotes = | bodystyle = }}
'''ANZLIC''', or '''The Spatial Information Council''', is the peak intergovernmental organisation providing leadership in the collection, management and use of spatial information in Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.anzlic.gov.au/| title = Reference at www.anzlic.gov.au}}</ref> <ref name="Masser 2003 p. 64">{{cite book | last=Masser | first=I. | title=Governments And Geographic Information | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-203-21287-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSKbX3qwkFsC&pg=PA64 | access-date=2021-01-04 | page=64}}</ref> It supports the establishment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure in the region<ref name="Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures p. ">{{cite book | editor-last=Williamson | editor-first=Ian P. | editor-last2=Rajabifard | editor-first2=Abbas | editor-last3=Feeney | editor-first3=Mary-Ellen F. | title=Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures | chapter=Development of the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure | publisher=CRC Press | date=2003-07-10 | isbn=978-0-429-20492-0 | doi=10.1201/9780203485774 }}</ref><ref name="Masser pp. 270–286">{{cite book | last=Masser | first=Ian | title=The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society | chapter=Emerging Frameworks in the Information Age: The Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Phenomenon | year=2011 | publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc. | location=London | isbn=978-1-4462-9581-6 | doi=10.4135/9781446201046.n14 | pages=270–286}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.anzlic.gov.au/news/spatial-data-infrastructure-australia-and-new-zealand| title = Spatial data infrastructure for Australia and New Zealand}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.anzlic.gov.au/sites/default/files/files/ANZLIC%20Strategic%20Plan%202020-24_3.pdf| title = ANZLIC Strategic Plan 2020-2024}}</ref> and has published geospatial metadata standards.<ref name="Macauley 2005 pp. 201–218">{{cite book | last=Macauley | first=Craig | title=World Spatial Metadata Standards | chapter=Australia and New Zealand ANZLIC Metadata Guidelines | publisher=Elsevier | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-08-043949-5 | doi=10.1016/b978-008043949-5/50014-0 | pages=201–218}}</ref> ANZLIC started in 1986 as the ''Australian Land Information Council'' (''ALIC'') and it became the ''Australia and New Zealand Land Information Council'' (''ANZLIC'') in 1991.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.anzlic.gov.au/anzlic-council| title = ANZLIC Council}}</ref> ANZLIC, now refers to itself as the Spatial Information Council.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.anzlic.gov.au/| title = Reference at www.anzlic.gov.au}}</ref>
Warwick Watkins was the longest serving Chairman of ANZLIC, 2000–2011, until he was dismissed from the NSW Public Service. ANZLIC chair appointments are typically only for two years, but Watkins held the chair for more than eleven. Drew Clarke immediately replaced Watkins as Chair of ANZLIC and remained as Chair until mid 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.anzlic.gov.au/news/michael-bradford-ceo-landgate-elected-anzlic-chair|title=Michael Bradford, CEO Landgate elected ANZLIC Chair | ANZLIC|website=www.anzlic.gov.au}}</ref> Watkins was found guilty of corruption by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and sacked from government.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/senior-public-servant-sacked-over-currawong-20110721-1hqxi.html| title = Senior public servant sacked over Currawong}} </ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.examiner.com.au/story/931176/senior-public-servant-sacked-over-currawong/| title = Senior public servant sacked over Currawong {{!}} The Examiner {{!}} Launceston, TAS}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/931176/senior-public-servant-sacked-over-currawong/| title = Senior public servant sacked over Currawong {{!}} The Courier {{!}} Ballarat, VIC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/icac-launches-attack-on-fat-cats-ng-a9d0b58c1794051e751f7d4627fe9f01| title = ICAC launches attack on fat cats {{!}} PerthNow}} </ref>
ANZLIC, under Watkins, was the driver of the Spatial Information Industry Action Agenda. Elizabeth O'Keeffe, Victoria ANZLIC delegate (Land Victoria), represented ANZLIC on the Spatial Information Industry Action Agenda Steering Group. Warren Entsch, then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, officially welcomed the establishment of a steering group to drive the Spatial Information Industry Action Agenda in November 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22media/pressrel/FK936%22|title=ParlInfo - Entsch welcomes spatial industry initiative.|website=parlinfo.aph.gov.au|access-date=2020-03-22}}</ref> The Action Agenda was released in September 2001.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.crcsi.com.au/assets/Resources/33dbc19a-4938-4f46-9a43-d9ff07f5209c.pdf| title = Reference at www.crcsi.com.au}}</ref> O’Keeffe, herself, was reportedly removed from her Land Victoria role, and consequentially as Victorian representative to ANZLIC, arising from an investigation into attempt fraud of a government trust fund. On 12 July 2002, the prominent Melbourne newspaper, The Age, reported that O’Keeffe had resigned and further reported that the Opposition claimed O’Keeffe had been sacked. Her Minister, Sherryl Garbutt denied that O'Keeffe had been sacked.<ref>Estate Agents Fund Bureaucrat linked to alleged fraud bid resigns, The Age, 12 July 2020</ref> The same day, O’Keeffe issued an internal memo, copied to all DNRE staff, dismissing the Opposition claims and advising she had instructed her lawyers to seek an unconditional retraction and apology from the Opposition and media. Also, she advised she would take legal action on any further claims.<ref>Elizabeth O’Keeffe, DNRE email-memo, "Article in the Age", 12 July 2002</ref>
The '''Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping''' ('''ICSM'''), became a standing committee of ANZLIC in 2002.<ref name="Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping">{{cite web | title=About | website=Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping | url=https://www.icsm.gov.au/about | access-date=2021-01-04}}</ref> ICSM was established by the Prime Minister, State Premiers, and the Chief Minister of the Northern Territory in 1988. Since that time the Australian Capital Territory and New Zealand have joined ICSM. The Australian Defence forces are also represented on ICSM. Members are senior representatives of surveying and mapping agencies. Prior to 1988 a similar body, the National Mapping Council (NMC), had coordinated cooperative Commonwealth, State and Northern Territory mapping programs since 1945. Although the NMC had been an effective forum, the changing operational environment of the late 1980s led to the cessation of the NMC and the formation of ICSM to cover both surveying and mapping issues, as they related to Government activities, to ensure continued cooperation in these activities on a national basis.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.icsm.gov.au/about| title = About {{!}} Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping}}</ref>
==See also== *Surveying in Australia *Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute
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==External links== * {{official website|https://www.anzlic.gov.au/}}
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Category:Intergovernmental organizations Category:Government of Australia Category:Government of New Zealand Category:Geographic data and information organizations