"We want to do the right thing, so why is government standing in the way?"

"A rangelands diversification lease would provide land managers more choices about how they manage their properties. It could help create alternative income streams in Kimberley communities and aid in the protection and restoration of our unique ecosystems in the north of WA."

"Bush Heritage Australia are an independent not-for-profit that buys and manages land, and partners with Aboriginal people, to protect our magnificent landscapes and our irreplaceable native species forever. In Western Australia, a rangelands lease would help Bush Heritage better manage our properties and the wildlife that call them home, give greater confidence to new donors and support our ongoing work across this great land to protect country for future generations. Bush Heritage values and respects our relationships with pastoral leaseholders and believes a rangeland Diversification Lease will better support the diverse communities that live, and contribute to, a thriving outback Australia."

"If I had a Rangelands Lease, I could focus more on tourism by developing land based activities  which  complement the environment through environmental educational tours.  indigenous guided tours and adventure activities like hiking or mountain biking.  This would have the additional benefit of providing  guests activities that were not water based thus protecting  the Ningaloo Reef and our own Outback oasis even more. We could be a leading example of sustainable tourism, but the pastoral lease laws are in the dark ages. It’s time for the government to catch up."

"The rangelands are a resource that everyone is responsible for. Pastoralism is the backbone of the rangelands but if people are going to have sustainable pastoral enterprises going forward into the future, they need the chance to diversify their business. Tourism and carbon farming are perfectly suitable uses of this landscape in their own right, but they need a rangelands lease to succeed. This will help to foster greater environmental, economic and social sustainability in our rangelands. At the moment we’re confined in what we can and can’t do, a rangelands diversification lease would allow pastoral businesses a greater focus on sustainable land use in Outback Western Australia."

"It broke our hearts to leave Nallan Station. We gave every last drop of energy, time and money working to bring Nallan back to health. While we had many successes, a century of damage to the land can only be turned around by decades of care. As a family we were unable to continue, and had to sell up and move away. The sad thing is that the chance to diversify with a rangelands diversification lease could have helped us stay in Outback WA. I don’t want to see other families come to the realisation we did – that they have no choice but to leave."

"150 years of sheep and cattle production have left the outback with a legacy of impoverished landscapes. But, regenerative farming techniques, that improve the land and sequester carbon, can reverse that legacy. Carbon farming can generate the income needed to heal and regenerate our outback, but I need a long term rangelands lease to be able to do it."