This report outlines the approach taken by ACAV at the fourth Parks Victoria Rock Climbing Round Table meeting held on 5th March 2020. Parks Victoria RT4 Agenda

Meeting attendees:
Mark Dingle	Deloitte Australia (meeting chair)
Jeff Floyd	Parks Victoria Chairman (meeting host)
Matthew Jackson	Parks Victoria CEO
Maria Pizzi	Parks Victoria Director, Managing Country Together
Mark Norman	Parks Victoria Chief Scientist
Will Cox	Parks Victoria Senior Manager, Strategic Project, Rock Climbing
Carol Nichols	Parks Victoria Director, Government Relations
Adam Merrick	Western Victorian Climbing Club
Paula Toal	Victorian Climbing Club
Tim Schofield	Climbing QTs
Coralie Reich	RMIT Outdoors Club
Matthew Tait	Round Table Bouldering Representative
Mike Tomkins	ACAV
Edwin Irvine	Gariwerd Wimmera Reconciliation Network
Daniel Earl	Round Table Licensed Tour Operator Representative
David Strickland	Sport & Recreation Victoria
Andrew Knight	Outdoors Victoria
Phillip Goebel	Sport Climbing Victoria
Romain Thevenot	Sport Climbing Australia

An ACAV handout was circulated to the meeting attendees for discussion and to clarify our desired outcomes from the meeting. This was printed on orange paper to draw attention to the high level message and clarify the role of ACAV in this process.

Note that the Voluntary Stewardship Program is intended to be run by Cliffcare and work is already under way to get this up and running. Volunteers required, please contact Steven Wilson, or email the VCC.

The meeting Chair, Mark Dingle of Deloitte will issue an official Communique (brief summary) within 24 hours, followed by official Meeting Notes within 7 to 10 days.

Throughout the 3-hour meeting the elephant in the room was the inadequate consultation with climbing groups over the extensive Grampians climbing bans introduced 12 months ago. More than 100 Parks Victoria cliff surveys have now been completed with no attendance allowed by climbing representatives.

ACAV and VCC have persistently requested survey attendance to allow the environmental and archaeological site findings to be understood in a climbing context and impacts mitigated in accordance with world’s best practice.

Stand by for Part 2 of this report, to include further details on the progress of environmental and archaeological surveys, including a list of the sites selected. Parks Victoria has committed to issuing the presentations that were given at this meeting.