[talk-au] Aligning admin boundaries (including those resulting from ABS 2006 imported data) to coastline..

[John Smith]

On 21 January 2011 15:23,  <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> I'm staying at the surveyor's house, but he's just gone out.
> The principle is that the definition is made by statute which is clear.
> Then the marks are placed by the surveyors, and regardless of error,
> that's where they stay.
> He was just telling us that the eastern border of WA is the only one which
> is the same on the ground as in statute.
> There's lots of case law in Australia on this matter, particularly over
> the Vic-SA border.
> But I can't confirm this with the local expert right now.

During the Q150 (150 years of Queensland in 2009) they noticed the
Qld-NT border is different on the ground compared to on the books.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/16/2687218.htm