Councils and committees
The Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities plays a role in the following councils, forums and committees.
COAG Standing Council on Environment and Water
This Council is established to:
- achieve COAG's strategic themes by pursuing and monitoring priority issues of national significance which require sustained, collaborative effort; and
- address key areas of shared Commonwealth and State responsibility and funding.
- More about COAG Standing Councils
Other Ministerial Forums
- Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Forum
- Lake Eyre Basin Ministerial Forum (LEBMF)
- Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council (MDBC)
- Wet Tropics Ministerial Council
Other councils and committees
- Alligator Rivers Region Advisory Committee (ARRAC)
- Alligator Rivers Region Technical Committee (ARRTC)
- All Species Inventory Scientific Advisory Committee
- Australian Biological Resources Study Advisory Committee
- Australian Herbarium Information Systems Committee
- Australian Heritage Council (AHC)
- Australian Network for Plant Conservation Steering Committee
- Australian Packaging Covenant Council (APCC)
- Biological Diversity Advisory Committee (BDAC)
- Biotechnology Ministerial Council
- Bureau of Meteorology Advisory Board
- Christmas Island National Park Administrators Advisory Committee
- Christmas Island Tourism Association Executive
- Coal seam gas water management expert panel
- Commonwealth Biotechnology Ministerial Council
- Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens
- Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria
- Fuels Standards Consultative Committee (FSCC)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Hazardous Waste Technical Group
- Herbarium Information Systems Committee
- Indian Ocean Group Training Association Board
- Indigenous Advisory Committee
- Intergovernmental Coastal Advisory Group
- Intergovernmental Operational Committee for the Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan
- Intergovernmental Steering Committee for the Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Protection Plan
- Interim Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Coal Mining
- International Organisation for Plan Information
- Kakadu National Park Board of Management
- Kakadu Tourism Consultative Committee
- Marine and Coastal Committee (MACC)
- Ministerial Taskforce on Indigenous Affairs
- National Land and Water Resources Audit Advisory Council
- National Oceans Ministerial Board
- Natural Heritage Trust Advisory Committee (NHTAC)
- Natural Heritage Ministerial Board
- Norfolk Island National Park Advisory Committee
- Oil Stewardship Advisory Council (OSAC)
- Pulu Keeling National Park Community Management Committee
- Taskforce for the Regional Natural Heritage Programme
- Threatened Species Scientific Committee (TSSC)
- Uluru Kata Tjuta National Park Board of Management
- Uluru Kata Tjuta Tourism Consultative Committee
Previous councils
- EPHC - Environment Protection and Heritage Council
- ANZECC - Australian and New Zealand Environment Conservation Council
