The Australian Minister for the Environment and Water is a position which is currently held by
Tanya Plibersek
Tanya Joan Plibersek (born 2 December 1969) is an Australian politician who served as Deputy Leader of the Labor Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2013 to 2019. She has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sydney since 1998 ...
in the
Albanese ministry since 1 June 2022, following the
Australian federal election in 2022.
In the
Government of Australia
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, 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
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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 th ...
(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 Animal Ethics Committee
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Antarctic Ethics Committee (Human Experimentation)
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Antarctic Research Assessment Committees (ARACs)
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Antarctic Science Advisory Committee
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Australia-Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks
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Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee
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Australian Heritage Council
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Bureau of Meteorology
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Environment Protection and Heritage Council
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Great Barrier Reef Consultative Committee
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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
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Great Barrier Reef Ministerial Council
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Hazardous Waste Technical Group
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Murray-Darling Basin Authority
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National Environment Protection Council
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National Environmental Education Council
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New South Wales World Heritage Properties Ministerial Council
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Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator
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Science Program Management Committee
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State of the Environment Committee 2006
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Stockholm Intergovernmental Forum
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Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
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Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Ministerial Council
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Threatened Species Scientific Committee
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Wet Tropics Ministerial Council
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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
Lance Barnard
Lance Herbert Barnard AO (1 May 19196 August 1997) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1967 to 1974 and held senior ministerial office in the Whitlam Government, most no ...
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
Kevin Rudd
Kevin Michael Rudd (born 21 September 1957) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who served as the 26th prime minister of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and again from June 2013 to September 2013, holding office as the leader of the ...
, his successor,
Julia Gillard
Julia Eileen Gillard (born 29 September 1961) is an Australian former politician who served as the 27th prime minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013, holding office as leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She is the first and only ...
, 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
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{{Australian federal ministerial portfolios
Environment and Water