The Water Act 2007 (the Act) was introduced following Australia’s millennium drought. It establishes the framework for managing water resources in the Murray–Darling Basin through cooperation between: ...

shipwrecks sunken aircraft other underwater heritage sites across Oceania and Southeast Asia. The AUCHD is also a register of protected artefacts from these sites. These are protected under the ...

The Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Water Interests (CAWI) includes water experts from across the country. Members were chosen for their water expertise, not based on their Nation.

The Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF) supports nationally significant infrastructure that is expanding Australia’s capacity to sort, process and remanufacture: glass plastic tyres paper cardboard.

We are committed to improving packaging sustainability and the co-regulatory arrangement to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging. Australia’s national co-regulatory framework for packaging ...

Around 60% of the world’s ocean is beyond national jurisdiction. These areas are known as the high seas. What happens on the high seas can affect Australia's environment. The high seas: support marine ...

H5 avian influenza (bird flu) has been detected in Australia. Find out more at the Bird flu (Avian influenza) website. We are investing more than $67 million to prepare our most at-risk native species ...

H5 avian influenza (bird flu) has been detected in Australia. Find out more at the Bird flu (Avian influenza) website.

We are increasing opportunities for investment in water delivery infrastructure within the Murray-Darling Basin. This will support the goal of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan to recover 450 gigalitres ...

The Australian Government is investing in the development of hydrogen hubs in regional Australia. This investment will fund the implementation of hubs as well as design and development studies for ...

research to support the management of oceans and coastlines a information to help monitor plants, animals and ecosystems tools to track environmental change tools to support planning and decisions ...

The National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) provides information on where different vegetation types occur in Australia. NVIS provides data for extant and estimated pre-1750 native vegetation.