What's new
Notice board
- Review of Australia's Native Vegetation Framework - comments close 31 March 2010
- Private Irrigation Infrastructure Program for South Australia - applications close Thursday 8 April 2010
- Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance - applications close 29 October 2012 unless all available funds are committed earlier
- Caring for our Country - Business Plan 2010-11
- EPBC Act public notices and invitation to comment
- Fisheries assessments open for public comment
- Arts and culture - public consultation
March 2010
- Draft Cane Toad Threat Abatement Plan - Public consultation closes 16 June 2010
- Significant impact guidelines for the endangered southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) Wet Tropics population
- Coolibah-Black Box Woodlands of the Darling Riverine Plains and Brigalow Belt South Bioregions - comment on nomination
- New England Peppermint (Eucalyptus nova-anglica) Woodlands - comment on nomination
- Prime Minister's Water Wise Award winner
- 2009-10 Southern Basin water entitlement purchase - Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin Program
Febuary 2010
- Australia advances a new proposal for whale conservation
- Significant changes to Commonwealth environmental programs
- South Australian Blue Crab Fishery
- Review of Australia's Native Vegetation Framework
- Bush Blitz! Australia's International Year of Biodiversity kicks off
- Queensland Rocky Reef Fin Fish Fishery
- Northern Pipeline Interconnector approved with strict conditions
- Home Insulation Program - Electrical Safety Check - Foil Insulation
- Australian Water Education Toolkit
- Melbourne's urban growth program moving forward
- Legislative changes for recreational fishing of mako sharks
January 2010
- Legislative changes for recreational fishing of mako sharks
- Caring for our Country 2010-11 Business Plan now open
- New Plan of Management for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park 2010-2020
- 2010 Southern Basin Tender - Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin Program (water entitlement purchasing)
December 2009
- Hawke report recommends changes to national environment law
- Three sharks listed as migratory species under the EPBC Act
- Tarkine road project to be assessed
- Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands and Shale-Gravel Transition Forest
- Australian Natural Heritage Assessment Tool
- Commemorating Eminent Australians grants program
- Water Matters issue 7
November 2009
- Final decision on Traveston Dam
- Strengthening Basin Communities Program: Planning component projects
- Resale royalty rights for visual artists
- Draft Feral Camel Action Plan - open for public comment
- Green Start
- Better protection for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Chemical Monitoring Database
- Indigenous program funding for 2010-11 now open
- Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Portfolio Regulatory Plan
- 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Award winners announced
- National Waste Policy
- On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program
October 2009
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts annual report 2008–09
- Smart Grid, Smart City Grant Guidelines
- First 2009-10 watering action
- 2009 Solar Cities Forum, 18 November, Canberra
- Joint agreement provides for water sharing in 2009-10
- Alpine sphagnum bogs and associated fens - EPBC Act policy statement 3.16
- Lowland native grasslands of Tasmania - EPBC Act policy statement 3.18
- Water for the Future Community Information Sessions
September 2009
- Smart Grid, Smart City
- 2009-10 CEWH Business Plan released
- Memorandum of Understanding with NSW on water trade
- Northern Australia Sustainable Yields reports released
- Numbers of Living Species in Australia and the World 2nd edition
- Weeping Myall Woodlands - EPBC Act policy statement 3.17
- Lowland Native Grasslands of Tasmania ecological community - freecall 1800 704 520 for more information
- Finalised priority assessment list (FPAL) for threatened species, ecological communities or key threatening process under the EPBC Act
- Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2009
- Maintaining a healthy and
resilient Great Barrier Reef - 2009
The Commonwealth and Queensland Governments' Interim Response to the Outlook Report - Reef Water Quality Protection Plan - 2009
August 2009
- Gorgon expansion proposal approved - EPBC 2008/4178
- www.livinggreener.gov.au - launch of the Living Greener website
- Water planning and management charge rules - ACCC advice
- Draft environment assessment report for the importation of Temnocerus debilis (a tip weevil) for release as a biological control agent
- Reform of Indigenous heritage protection laws
- Endangered southern cassowary - EPBC Act draft policy statement 3.15
- Illegal exotic wildlife seized
July 2009
- Water charge (infrastructure) rules - ACCC advice
- Uluru draft management plan
- World's best environmental practice for new mine - uranium mine in South Australia approved subject to conditions
- Green Precincts funding announcements
- Streamlined environmental assessments Australia wide - bilateral agreements between the Commonwealth and states/territories
- Wellington Weir assessment period commenced - South Australia
- Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council Communique - Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council meeting, 3 July 2009
- National Strategy on Energy Efficiency
- COAG Communique - 2 July 2009
- Energy Efficient Homes Package - find an insulation installer near you
June 2009
- Smart Grid, Smart City - National Energy Efficiency Initiative
- Independent review of the EPBC Act: interim report
- Conservation and values - Global Cetacean Summary Report
- Renewable Remote Power Generation Program - closed to new applications except in Western Australia.
- Private Irrigation Infrastructure Operators Program in New South Wales
- Private Irrigation Infrastructure Operators Program in New South Wales
- Water Market Rules and Water Charge (Termination Fees) Rules
- Solar Homes and Communities Plan - early closure of this program and the immediate introduction of Solar Credits
- Draft National Koala Conservation and Management Strategy 2009-2014 - Submissions close 5 August 2009.
May 2009
- Australia's largest single water entitlement purchase
- 18th Meeting of EPHC - Communiqué - Breakthrough on waste
- Announcement of the Coral Sea Conservation Zone
- Federal Budget 2009-10
- Coordinated national action to drive energy efficiency and renewable energy uptake
Media release and COAG Communiqué . - Breakthrough on computer, TV waste
- EPHC Meeting 18 Communiqué - 22 May 2009
- Recycling scheme for mercury-containing lamps
- Grants to Voluntary Environment and Heritage Organisations - 2008-2009 Round
- Final Report on the Second Independent Review of the Product Stewardship (Oil) Act 2000
April 2009
- Banksia Environmental Awards - closed 4 May 2009
- Draft Indigenous art commercial code of conduct
- Working on Country - call for applications, closed 1 May 2009
- COAG Communiqué - 30 April 2009
- Public comment sought on the proposed blocking banks in the Goolwa Channel and tributaries, SA
- Ten years of National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) data
- First sites receive Commonwealth environmental water
- A National Waste Policy: Managing Waste to 2020 - Consultation paper
- Water Matters - Issue 3
- Cumberland plain woodlands ecological community - Comments on nomination
- Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability