Guidelines for managing hard-to-control weeds along Australian roadsides

May 28th, 2021

Guidelines have been developed for managing weeds on Australia's 1.75 million km of roadside vegetation.

Australia has more than 874,000 kilometres of roads. This means up to 1.75 million km of roadside vegetation that must be managed and can potentially act as a reservoir for weeds that impact both natural and agricultural systems.

Managing roadside vegetation can be complex due to:

  • the priority of road-user safety
  • maintaining road structure
  • fire management
  • conservation of rare and endangered vegetation
  • the requirement to only control declared weeds

The management of roads and roadside vegetation is further complicated because they are managed by a range of organisations often using contractors and needing to adhere to a budgetary framework. Add to this there are many different landowners adjacent to these linear reserves that have different motivations for management.

Fact sheets are available for road users and managers to provide more information on how roadsides weeds are managed.

FactsheetPDF934 KB
Guidelines for ManagersPDF763 KB