What's new
Notice board
Open for public comment
- EPBC Act public notices and invitation to comment
- Marine bioregional planning - Temperate East
Draft Marine Bioregional Plan and Commonwealth marine reserves network proposal for the Temperate East Marine Region. Comments close Monday 21 February 2011. - Marine bioregional planning - Coral Sea
A Commonwealth marine reserve proposal for the Coral Sea has been released for public consultation. Comments close 24 February 2012. - Draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan - the independent Murray-Darling Basin Authority has released the draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan. Comments close 16 April 2012
- Trading of Commonwealth environmental water
Discussion paper on trading Commonwealth environmental water. Responses sought by 27 April 2012. - More about public consultation
Grants and funding - now open
- Postgraduate top-up scholarship for research in ozone science - applications close 17 February 2012
- Suburban Jobs program - applications for funding close 17 February 2012
- Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance - 29 October 2012, unless all available funds are committed earlier
- Community Action Grants 2012-13 - applications for funding close 27 March 2012
- More about grants and funding
What's new on the website
January 2012
- Native vegetation laws, greenhouse gas abatement and climate change measures - Australian Government Response to the Senate Committee on Finance and Public Administration, January 2012
December 2011
- State of the Environment 2011 (SoE 2011)
- Clean Energy Future Land Sector Package - Biodiversity Fund
- Applications open for Suburban Jobs program
- Business plan 2012-13 applications now open - Caring for our Country
November 2011
- Draft Basin Plan released
- The Land Sector Carbon and Biodiversity Board announced
- Inquiry into the impact of the Guide to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan
- Listing of three new threatened ecological communities:
- Marine bioregional planning - Commonwealth marine reserve proposal for the Coral Sea
- Marine bioregional planning - Temperate East
- Commonwealth heritage listing of 43 post offices
October 2011
- Annual report 2010-2011
- HMS Sirius shipwreck added to the National Heritage list
- Heritage Week 2010 announced
- Antarctic ozone hole reports - Weekly reports prepared by CSIRO on the formation and progress of the Antarctic Ozone Hole between September and December each year
- Building Better Regional Cities - funding round open
- Whalewatching in Commonwealth waters - review of management arrangements - discussion paper
September 2011
- Exposure draft of the Regulations for the National Television and Computer Recycling Scheme - open for public comment
August 2011
- West Kimberley added to National Heritage List
- Marine bioregional planning - north and north-west
- Reform of the EPBC Act - Australian Government response to the report of the independent review of the EPBC Act
- Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council Communique
- Draft Threat abatement plan to reduce the impacts on northern Australia's biodiversity by the five listed grasses - comments close 21 November 2011
- Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement
- Rio+20 - The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
July 2011
- The Henbury Conservation Project
- Review of the Bureau of Meteorology
- Coral Triangle Initiative - Announcement of Coral Triangle Initiative support package and Australian Government Support Plan
- Grants to Voluntary Environment, Sustainability and Heritage Organisations
June 2011
- Transitional TV take-back arrangements
- Koongarra, NT added to Kakadu National Park World Heritage area
- Ningaloo Coast, WA receives World Heritage listing
- Webcam of Commonwealth environmental watering in the Murrumbidgee River
- Product stewardship legislation passes Parliament
- Stormwater harvesting and reuse projects - Third Competitive Grants Round
- Community Action Grants 2011-12
- West Kimberley National Heritage assessment
May 2011
- Sustainable Population Strategy Released
- Portfolio budget statements 2011-12
- Draft marine bioregional plan and a Commonwealth marine reserve network proposal for the South-west Marine Region
April 2011
- Australian Heritage Week
- Caring for our Country 2011-12 grants round now open
- Tasmanian Forests ?Interim Report by Mr Bill Kelty AC
- Communiqué - Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Forum
March 2011
- 2010-11 Queensland Lower Balonne water entitlement purchase
- Product Stewardship Bill 2011
- Gunns pulp mill environmental impact management plan approved
February 2011
- New threatened ecological community listings - Coolibah - Black Box Woodlands of the Darling Riverine Plains and the Brigalow Belt South Bioregions, New England Peppermint (Eucalyptus nova-anglica) Grassy Woodlands
- 2010-11 Southern Connected Basin water entitlement purchase - Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin
- Draft referral guidelines for the black-eyed susan - EPBC Act policy statement 3.26 - comments close 18 March 2011
- World Wetlands Day - 2 February
