Commonwealth of Australia

Inclusion of species in the list of threatened species under section 178 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (60)

I, PETER ROBERT GARRETT, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, pursuant to section 184(1)(b) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, hereby amend the list referred to in section 178 of that Act by:

Deleting from the list in the extinct category

Hutchinsia tasmanica (Highland Purse)

Deleting from the list in the endangered category

Eremophila sp. Veneta (R.J. Chinnock 8250) WA Herbarium (Metallic-flowered Eremophila)

Deleting from the list in the vulnerable category

Lasiopetalum micranthum (Tasmanian Velvet-bush)

Centrolepis monogyna subsp. paludicola (a sedge)

Dated this twenty-fourth day of January 2008

PETER ROBERT GARRETT

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts