Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority

Joseph Burns

Joseph is a Certified Practising Accountant and a Justice of the Peace. He was appointed as a Board Member in June 2005 and worked for the NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation and has a deep interest and wide experience in natural resource and environmental management issues.

Joseph is an associate of the Society of Certified Practicing Accountants. He has 33 years experience specialising in the preparation of Annual Financial Statements and annual budgets.

Joseph was Mayor of the Leeton Shire Council for over eight years and continues as a Councillor.  He is also a member of the Riverina Regional Development Board.

 

 

Geoff Chapman

Geoff together with his wife, Jill and family own and operate a 8 200 hecatre pastoral property south of Hay.

Geoff has lived in the Hay area for 23 years and has a keen interest in all aspects of natural resource management. A member of the initial Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Board, Geoff assisted in the development of the Murrumbidgee Catchment Blueprint.

An active contributor to Hay Landcare and local farmer and primary industry associations, Geoff has an understanding of landholder and community expectations of vegetation, water and biodiversity management. 

Sulari Goonetilluke

Sulari and her husband own a property near Batlow where they have planted Batlow's first Trufferie.

With a Bachelor of Science, honours in Law and a Graduate Dimploma in Legal Practice, Sulari started her career as a legal advisor and later worked as a corporate lawyer. She is now an independent consultant and Corporate Counsel to a Tasmanian truffle company.  

Sulari was an original member of the Catchment Management Board for the Murrumbidgee and assisted in the development of the Murrumbidgee catchment Blueprint.

 

Mike Schultz

Mike has a background in horticulture and ecology.  Mike is from Leeton, his town of birth, and received his education in the Riverina. Mike was a member of the initial Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Board.

Through his involvement with native vegetation and wildlife, and water organisations, Mike brings experience and a good understanding of natural resource management and biodiversity conservation to the Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority.

Mike has a commitment to conservation management of the catchment’s natural resources and heritage, for the Murrumbidgee Catchment and its community as a whole.

 

 

Dick Thompson

Dick owns and operates a broad acre irrigation farm at Hanwood producing rice, winter cereals and prime lambs.

Dick was elected to the initial irrigators Board in 1989; in July 1997 he chaired the former Murrumbidgee Irrigation State Owned Corporation, and has continued on as Chairman since the irrigator owned Company was formed in 1999.

Dick is a member of the Murrumbidgee Customer Services Committee of State Water, who operate the Murrumbidgee river system, and is their representative on the Tumut River Advisory Committee which was established by the MDBC.

Dick is also an executive member of NSW Irrigators’ Council and a member of The Living Murray Water Recovery Murrumbidgee Regional Study Steering Committee, which was established by MDBC to investigate water savings.

"A healthy & productive Murrumbidgee catchment & its communities working together - Yindyamarra"