Public notices and invitation to comment
Decisions and notices issued, and invitation to comment under the EPBC Act are published here. Some notices are also published in the Government Gazette or press around Australia.
The EPBC Act has been designed to provide for both a high level of public involvement in decision-making and an open and transparent system that allows public scrutiny of decisions made.
- Bilateral agreements
- Strategic assessment notices
- Hamersley Iron Ore Pty Ltd (Rio Tinto) iron ore mining in the Pilbara (Western Australia)
- BHP Billiton mining iron ore in the Pilbara region (Western Australia)
- Gungahlin (ACT)
- Great Barrier Reef (Queensland)
- Perth and Peel region (Western Australia)
- Browse Basin LNG Precinct (Western Australia)
- Melbourne's urban growth boundary (Victoria)
- Molonglo Valley Plan (ACT)
- Heathcote Ridge, West Menai (New South Wales)
- Western Sydney growth centres (New South Wales)
- Fire management policy (South Australia)
- Midlands Water Scheme (Tasmania)
- Mount Peter Master Planned Area (Queensland)
- Fisheries assessment notices
- Referrals
- Public notices
- Invitations to comment
- Exemption notices
Invitations for public comment
Species and ecological communities
- Draft EPBC Act policy statements open for public comment
- Fisheries assessments for comment
- Nominations open for public comment
- Notification of activities interactions with protected species
- Permit applications for listed species or ecological communities (for cetaceans see below)
- Permit applications for cetaceans | Cetacean permit exemption notices
- Recovery planning notices
- Draft recovery plans open for public comment
- Draft threat abatement plans open for public comment
- Wildlife trade operations, applications and plans open for public comment
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