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Department of the Environment and Heritage annual report 2005–06

Volume one
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2006
ISSN 1441 9335

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Executive summary (continued)

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Outcomes and outputs

This volume of the annual report provides details of the department’s performance for the year and its contributions to the outcomes and outputs set out in the Portfolio Budget Statements 2005–06. The work of the department focuses on two major outcomes:

Changes to outputs since the last Budget

Following the incorporation of the Australian Greenhouse Office and the National Oceans Office into the Department of the Environment and Heritage in 2004–05, the department reviewed its outputs structure in consultation with the minister and the Department of Finance and Administration.

This year the number of outputs has been reduced from 18 to seven to reflect the department’s services and broad environment management themes—climate change, land and inland water, coasts and oceans, heritage, human settlements, Antarctic policy and Antarctic science.

In 2005–06 the department received funding for the following outcomes and outputs:

Outcomes Description Outputs
Outcome 1
The environment, especially those aspects that are matters of national environmental significance, is protected and conserved Protection and conservation of environment and heritage matters that are nationally important or under direct Commonwealth jurisdiction 1.1: Response to climate change

1.2: Conservation of the land and inland waters

1.3: Conservation of the coasts and oceans

1.4: Conservation of natural, Indigenous and historic heritage

1.5: Response to the impacts of human settlements
Outcome 2
Australia’s interests in Antarctica are advanced Advancement of Australia’s Antarctic and Southern Ocean interests 2.1: Antarctic policy

2.2: Antarctic science

Note:

  • Volume 2 of the annual report details the operation of the seven Acts that the department administers that do not report separately to Parliament, including how the statutory requirements were met and how the laws were administered.
  • A full list of legislation administered by the Australian Government’s environment and heritage portfolio is available at www.deh.gov.au/about/legislation.html.
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