The Australian Minister for the Environment and Water is a position which is currently held by Tanya Plibersek in the Albanese ministry since 1 June 2022, following the Australian federal election in 2022. In the Government of Australia, the minister and assistant minister are responsible for the protection and conservation of the environment; to ensure that Australia benefits from meteorological and related sciences and services; and to see that Australia's interests in

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

are advanced. The minister provides direction and oversight of the

Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) was an Australian Government department which operated from 1 February 2020 until 30 June 2022. It represented Australia's national interests in agriculture, water and t ...

(previously the Department of the Environment and Energy, and before that the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities) to develop and implement national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's environment and heritage.

Portfolio responsibilities

The minister administers their portfolio through the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and its environment component bodies, including: *

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* Antarctic Ethics Committee (Human Experimentation) *

Antarctic Research Assessment Committees (ARACs) The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...

Antarctic Science Advisory Committee The Antarctic ( or , American English also or ; commonly ) is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau and other ...

* Australia-Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks *

Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee The Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee (AANMC) was established to advise the Government on names for features in the Australian Antarctic Territory and the subantarctic territory of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. The commi ...

* Australian Heritage Council *

Bureau of Meteorology The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas. It was established in 1906 under the Meteorology Act, and brought together ...

* Environment Protection and Heritage Council * Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee * Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority * Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council * Great Barrier Reef Structural Adjustment Package Technical Advisory Committee * Hazardous Waste Technical Group * Murray-Darling Basin Authority * National Environment Protection Council * National Environmental Education Council * New South Wales World Heritage Properties Ministerial Council * Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator * Science Program Management Committee * State of the Environment Committee 2006 *

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* Sydney Harbour Federation Trust * Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Ministerial Council * Threatened Species Scientific Committee *

Wet Tropics Ministerial Council Wet may refer to: * Moisture, the condition of containing liquid or being covered or saturated in liquid * Wetting (or wetness), a measure of how well a liquid sticks to a solid rather than forming a sphere on the surface Wet or WET may also refe ...

List of Ministers for the Environment

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for the Environment, or any precedent titles: Notes : Whitlam was one of a two-man ministry consisting of himself and

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for two weeks until the full ministry was announced.

List of Ministers for Water

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister for Water, or any precedent titles:

Former ministerial portfolios

List of ministers for sustainable population

The Minister for Sustainable Population was a ministerial portfolio administered through the Department of the Treasury responsible for "planning properly for the infrastructure needs, for the housing needs, for the transport needs, for the regional needs" of the Australian population of the future. Originally entitled the ''Minister for Population'' by Prime Minister

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, his successor, Julia Gillard, renamed the portfolio to the ''Minister for Sustainable Population'' to reflect her policy changes on the matter of population growth and the need for a sustainable future for Australia, saying the change sends a clear message about the new direction the Government is taking. After the 2010 federal election, the portfolio was subsumed by the ''Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities'' portfolio.

List of minister for cities and the built environment

The following individual has served as the Minister for Cities and the Built Environment.

List of assistant ministers for the environment

The following individual has served as the Assistant Minister for the Environment.

References

External links

* {{Australian federal ministerial portfolios Environment and Water