What's new
Notice board
- Indigenous program funding for 2010-11 now open - applications close 5 February 2010
- On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency Program - applications close 17 November 2009
- Solar Cities Forum - 18 November 2009, Canberra
- Private Irrigation Infrastructure Operators Program in New South Wales - applications close 4pm (EST) Friday, 27 November 2009
- Prime Minister's Water Wise Awards - nominations close 30 November 2009
- National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns Competitive Grants - applications close 5pm EDT Tuesday 1 December 2009
- National Water Initiative pricing principles - comments close 18 December 2009
- CITES - 15th Conference of the Parties (CoP 15) - comments close 8 January 2010
- Smart Grid, Smart City Grant guidelines National Energy Efficiency Initiative - applications close 28 January 2010
- Stormwater harvesting and reuse projects - second round - closing date extended to 10 February 2010
- Irrigation Modernisation Planning Assistance - applications close 29 October 2012 unless all available funds are committed earlier
- EPBC Act public notices and invitation to comment
- Fisheries assessments open for public comment
- Arts and culture - public consultation
November 2009
- 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
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
- Traveston Dam — the federal process
- 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
March 2009
- 2007-08 industry facility data is now available on the NPI web site
- Earth Hour 2009
- Phase out of greenhouse intensive hot water systems
- Ten years of National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) data
- First sites receive Commonwealth environmental water
- National Biodiversity Strategy review
- Working on Country - call for applications
- Littoral rainforests and coastal vine thickets of eastern Australia
February 2009
- Public comments sought on Lower Lakes irrigation pipeline project, SA
- Australia to develop a National Waste Policy
- Energy Efficient Homes Package
- Water Market Rules and Water Charge (Termination Fees) Rules - Public Notice
- Marine species listed as conservation dependent
- Ramsar Snapshot Study - Final Report
- World Wetlands Day - 2 February 2009
January 2009
- Public input sought on assessment guidelines for SA barrages
- Rebates for rainwater tanks and greywater systems
- Grassroots support protects Tassie habitat
- State of the Environment 2011 Committee being established - Deadline extended
- McArthur River Mine - consultation begins
- Review of vital legislation protecting important cultural heritage objects
- Request for experession of interest: Identification of sites of high conservation priority impacted on by feral cats - 6 January 2009
- Caring for our Country - Working on Country Round 3 projects announced
December 2008
- Mandatory Disclosure of Commercial Building Energy Efficiency
- Planned approach for Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin - Water Purchase Program: 2008-09 and beyond
- Caring for our Country business plan
- Draft Regulatory Impact Statement for the National Framework for Non-urban Water Metering
- National Urban Water and Desalination Plan
November 2008
- Approved threat abatement plans
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts annual report 2007-08
- Assessment of Groundwater Resources in the Broken Hill Region
- Amendments to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 - Passed by Parliament 12 November 2008.
- EPHC Meeting, 7 November 2008 - Ministers firm up frameworks to tackle key environmental challenges
- EPHC Communique
- Ministers back plans for a national waste policy - 7 November 2008
- Green light for national wind farm guidelines and policy - 7 November 2008
- Draft wind farm industry - EPBC Policy Statement 2.3
- Review of the 2007-08 water entitlement purchase round
- Independent review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)
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