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Department of the Environment and Heritage

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Formed
  
21 October 1998

Headquarters
  
Canberra

Dissolved
  
30 January 2007

Preceding Department
  
Department of the Environment (II) Department of Communications and the Arts

Superseding agency
  
Department of the Environment and Water Resources

Jurisdiction
  
Commonwealth of Australia

The Department of the Environment and Heritage was an Australian government department that existed between October 1998 and December 2007.

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Scope

Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements, in the Department's annual reports and on the Department's website.

At its creation, the Department was responsible for:

  • Environment and conservation
  • Meteorology
  • Administration of the Australian Antarctic Territory and the Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
  • Natural and built heritage
  • Greenhouse policy coordination

    • Structure

    The Department was an Australian Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for the Environment and Heritage. The Department was headed by a Secretary, initially Roger Beale (until early 2004) and then David Borthwick.

    References

    Department of the Environment and Heritage Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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