Department of the Environment and Heritage Annual Report 2003-04
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2004
ISSN 1441 9335
Contents
- Download the Annual Report as PDF Files
- Letter of Transmittal
- Reader's Guide
- Overview
- Review of performance
- Outcome 1 - Environment
- Progress towards Outcome 1
- Protecting the atmosphere
- Conserving and managing biodiversity
- Protecting and managing coasts and oceans
- Managing environmental assessments and approvals
- Protecting and conserving heritage
- Improving the environmental performance of Australian industry
- Managing inland waters
- Protecting and managing the land
- Establishing and managing protected areas
- Administering Natural Heritage Trust programmes
- Outcome 2 - Antarctica
- Financial results
- Management and accountability
- Environmental reporting
- International policy advice
- Environmental economics advice
- Support for environmental education
- Support for environmental organisations
- Corporate governance
- External scrutiny
- Knowledge management
- Management of human resources
- Assets management
- Purchasing
- Consultants
- Consultancy services
- Competitive tendering and contracting
- Exempt contracts
- Commonwealth disability strategy
- Financial statements
- Appendices - Other mandatory information
- Glossary - Frequently used terms
- Compliance index
- Other Reports
- Triple bottom line report
- Operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Operation of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000
- Operation of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989
- Operation of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989
- Operation of the product stewardship arrangements for oil including the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000
- Operation of the Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Act 1986
Copyright Information
© Commonwealth of Australia 2004
ISSN 1441 - 9335
This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth, available from the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage.
Requests and inquiries concerning reproduction and rights should be addressed to:
Assistant Secretary
Policy Development Branch
Department of the Environment and Heritage
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
Photography credits
Cover images
Andrew S. Benwell - Flower Phaius tancarvilliae
D. Bishop and the Australian Heritage Photo Library - Royal Exhibition Building
Arthur Mostead - Farmer fixing fence
Pacific Whale Foundation - Whale tail
Peter Raynard - Grass tree
Other images
Australian Capital Territory Environment Protection Section - Fog and smoke over Canberra
C. Baker and Australian Heritage Photo Library - Hope and Anchor Tavern
John Baker - Trees in front of beach, Grazing hills and river, Kakadu National Park, Lake Placid, Grasshopper on water lily, Wetland in Kakadu National Park, Grass tree on Mount Coryah
Andrew S. Benwell - Flower Phaius Tancarvilliae
Alastair Betts - Water treatment plant
Blackhill Flora Centre SA - Sandhill Greenhood Orchid
Peter Christophersen - Floodplain burning
Peter Coyne - Tree fern crowns
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Tree planting, Twin Falls
Director of National Parks - Yellow-throated Miner on Honey Grevillia
Grant Dixon (Courtesy AAD) - Stormy sky over iceberg
Glenn Duncan (Courtesy AAD) - Blade housing
A Dunn - Chimney and phosphate dust
Trevor J. Ierino - Wildflowers at Mount Hotham
Glenn Jacobsen - Australian Antarctic Division headquarters
Paul Janssen - Hand watering, Stormwater holding tanks
Darren Jew - Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Steve Keough - Natural light for meeting spaces, Helen Pike operating the Defence Circuit, Communications Centre lobby
Kieran Lawless - Penguins and chicks, People on ice, Seals, Clouds over mountains, Ice on water
Peter Magill (Courtesy AAD) - Installing the blades
Arthur Mostead - Gum tree, Bee on Bottlebrush, Shoreline at Narooma, Salinity, Cow, Waterways, Gum seedling, Wildflowers, Australian bush, Kangaroo paw, Corridor natural light
Pacific Whale Foundation - Whale tail, whale
Wayne Papps (Courtesy AAD) - Antarctic knowledge passing to a new generation
Trevor Preston - Moonrise over the ocean
Peter Raynard - Grass tree
Graeme Robertson - Albatross
Rix Ryan Photography - Girl picking up rubbish
John Smith (Courtesy AAD) - Wind turbine in action
Andrew Tatnell - Paperbark swamp, Great Egret, Fairy Wren
Robert Thorn - Frog on fern, Green turtle, Butterfly fish
Jenny Tomkins - Lighthouse on Rottnest Island
Dave Watts - Orange-bellied Parrot
Merran Williams - Murray Williams
Eric Woehler (Courtesy AAD) - Children get close to Australia's Antarctic history
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- Download Review of performance: Outcome 1 - Environment (outcome-1.pdf - 1129 KB)
- Download Review of performance: Outcome 2 - Antarctica (outcome-2.pdf - 453 KB)
- Download Review of performance: Financial results (financial-results.pdf - 191 KB)
- Download Management and accountability (management.pdf - 51 KB)
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- Download Financial statements (deh-financial.pdf - 3020 KB)
- Download Appendices (appendices.pdf - 268 KB)
- Download Glossary and Indexes (glossary.pdf - 309 KB)
- Other reports
- Download Triple bottom line report
- Download Operation of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (epbc.pdf - 395 KB)
- Download Australian Heritage Commission final report - 1 July to 31 December 2003 (heritage.pdf - 1167 KB)
- Download Operation of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 (fuel-quality.pdf - 117 KB)
- Download Operation of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 (hazardous-waste.pdf - 121 KB)
- Download Operation of the Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas Management Act 1989 (ozone.pdf - 127 KB)
- Download Operation of the Product stewardship arrangements for oil including the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000 (waste-oil.pdf - 133 KB)
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