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Bruce Breaden, traditional owner, Environment Minister Tony Burke and Peter Cochrane, Director of National Parks. (Daniel Griffiths)
Bruce Breaden, traditional owner, Environment Minister Tony Burke and David Pearse, R.M.Williams Agricultural Holdings. (Parks Australia)
Spinifex on laterite, Diamantina country. (Allan Fox)
Humpback whale. (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority)
Public consultation for South-west Marine Bioregional Plan.
Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs. (Director of National Parks)
A snapshot of the biodiversity found within the Coral Triangle. (Candice Mohan)
Humpback whale tail. (Tony Howard)
Cycads after fire. (Vanessa Drysdale)
A Rufous-backed Kingfisher (Ceyx rufidorsa) captured in Bali-Barat National Park, Indonesia. (David Drynan)
Manual grab sampling technique.
Automated continuous monitoring pontoon, showing solar panels and automatic water sampling units.
The Mountain Katydid defends itself by flashing bright colours and squirting noxious liquid. (Julian Finn)
Nomination of the Ningaloo Coast for world heritage listing. (Tony Howard)
Gentoo Penguins and King Penguins, Sea World Penguin Encounter. (Sea World)
Elizabeth River Valley, Campbell Town, Tasmania. (D.Ziegeler)
North East Cape York. (Roger Fryer)
Community members, school children & rangers cleaning up the beach and camping grounds.
Barrow Island, Western Australia. (Kevin Walley)
Helping to plant native banksias around the Batemans Bay foreshore on the south-east coast of New South Wales.
Removing daisy weeds from sand dunes. (John Baker)
Warddeken Manwurrk ranger controlling a fire break on the West Arnhem Plateau.(Peter Eve, Monsoon Photographic Studio)
Battery recycling area Mugga Lane Recycling Depot, ACT.
Used oil collection unit.
Fuel pump.
Australian Government fuel quality testing.
An organised chemical storage shed. Murrumbah is a ChemCert Healthy Farm where produce is quality assured.
Early evening traffic on the streets of the Melbourne CBD.
Australian Government fuel quality testing.
Organic waste.
Plastic recycling at Visy Recycling Centre in Hume, ACT. (Visy Recycling Centre)
Television recycling.
Jade berg and boating crew, Prydz Bay, Ingrid Christensen Coast. (Andrew Burgess, Australian Antarctic Division)
Seal pup. (Chris Wilson, Australian Antarctic Division)
Camping in Antarctica. (Chris Wilson, Australian Antarctic Division)
Expeditioners in rubber boat. (Chris Wilson, Australian Antarctic Division)
Antarctic night sky. (Chris Wilson, Australian Antarctic Division)
Nacreous Clouds after sunset on 28 August 2009. (Peter Tsimnadis, Australian Antarctic Division)
The Paroo River, Queensland, is one of the few catchments in the Murray-Darling Basin recognised by the CSIRO as being in a healthy state.
Wetlands in the Yanga National Park after Commonwealth environmental watering, November 2010. (Tanya Doody, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Land and Water)
Commonwealth environmental water being released from Burrinjuck Dam, Murrumbidgee River, by State Water NSW, June 2011.
Inundation of a wetland on the Murrumbidgee River—time lapse photos from a webcam over a 10 day period when Commonwealth environmental water was delivered, June 2011.
Strawnecked Ibis eggs, Booligal Blockbank Swamp, during period when Commonwealth water was used, November 2010. (Michelle Crossley, landholder–Riverside, Booligal)
Inundation of riparian vegetation in the Edward-Wakool river system, May 2011.
Section of the Gwydir Wetlands taken shortly after Commonwealth environmental water was used, October 2010.
The department supported the extensive consultation process conducted by the Murray-Darling Basin following the release of the guide to the Basin Plan, including this meeting conducted in Renmark, South Australia.
Murray River between Mannum and Nildottie, South Australia. (John Baker)
A key environmental indicator for the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is for the Murray Mouth to be open to export salt. (Richard Brown, Lower Murray Infrastructure [DWLBC])
The government is investing in pivot irrigators under its programs to modernise irrigation infrastructure. (Arthur Mostead)
Water being released from Jindabyne Dam in November 2010 to benefit the Snowy River environment
The National Botanic Gardens in Canberra is now sourcing water from Lake Burley Griffin.
Inspecting pipes removed from a decommissioned section of the redundant Marthaguy Irrigation Scheme channel. (Tom McKeon, McKeon Associates)
Sunset at Hunters Beach, Ningaloo Marine Area. (Tony Howard)
Roll of Honour Australian War Memorial and the Memorial Parade. (Mark Mohell)
Refurbishment of windows and doorway, Sacred Heart Convent in Abbotsford, Victoria. (The Abbotsford Convent Foundation)
Senior women of the Ngaanyatjarra lands look out across country from an important women's site on the Seven Sisters dreaming track in central Western Australia. (Leigh Holdaway)
Zuytdorp coastline. (Patrick Baker, Western Australian Museum)
Terns at Winderabandi Point, Ningaloo Marine Area – Commonwealth Waters. (Tony Howard)
Entering small village, Kokoda Track. (Jo Beath)
Indigenous rock art site, Windjana Gorge National Park, Kimberley region, Western Australia. (Cathy Zwick)
Anchor from the Marie Gabrielle (1869) on Wreck Beach. (John Baker)
Maheno Wreck Fraser Island. (Shannon Muir)
Building the roof structure of new storage shed at Ilkurlka. (Louise Allerton, Ilkurlka Aboriginal Corporation)
Jetty at Monkey Mia, Shark Bay. (Rory Chapple [CALM])
High density housing highlighting solar roof panels.
Housing construction site. (Arthur Mostead)
Affordable housing precinct in Harrison, ACT.
Outside Flinders Street Railway Station, Melbourne. (John Baker)
Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Western Australia. (Mark Mohell)
Departmental Ride to Work day. (Mark Mohell)
John Gorton Building. (Rodney Garnett)
Mark Tucker with Thin Client.