Consultation is open on the draft National Electricity Market Wholesale Market Settings Regulatory Reforms package. As part of this process there will be 3 public webinars where stakeholders can get ...

Environmental water helped maintain connectivity, improve water quality and support river communities across the ...

Permits will only be issued by the minister if the activity relevant to the protected matter: contributes significantly to the conservation of the species or ecological community is incidental to, and ...

New research into golden perch movement in the southern Murray–Darling Basin has found they travel hundreds of ...

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has announced the sale of up to up to 15 gigalitres (GL) of annual water allocations in the Gwydir catchment in New South Wales.Commonwealth Environmental ...

The Australian Government is committed to ensuring Australia has access to the fuel we need to keep the country moving while managing the transition to net zero emissions. Australia relies on liquid ...

Australia is a party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Under this, we have rights and responsibilities for 16 million km 2 of ocean. This is more than 1.5 times our landmass.

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The First Nations Clean Energy Program is part of the Australian Government’s work to deliver the First Nations Clean Energy Strategy (the Strategy). The government will invest $70 million over 3 ...

Current Commonwealth Environmental Water publications are listed on this page. To view previous versions or archived publications, visit: Environment Publications Archive.

Threat abatement plans guide Australia’s response to key threats (key threatening processes) to our native species and ecological communities. These plans identify actions to: reduce the impact of key ...

Seals, sea lions and walruses are marine mammals known as pinnipeds. Ten of the world’s pinniped species are found in Australian waters: Under the EPBC Act, all of Australia’s seals and sea lions are ...