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Minister for the Environment and Energy

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The Honourable

Formation
  
10 March 1971

Inaugural holder
  
Peter Howson

Appointer
  
Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia

Website
  
www.environment.gov.au/minister/index.html

The Australian Minister for the Environment and Energy is the Hon. Josh Frydenberg MP since 19 July 2016.

Contents

In the Government of Australia, the minister and parliamentary secretary 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 are advanced. The minister provides direction and oversight of the Department of the Environment (previously 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 the Environment and Energy and its component bodies, including:

  • Antarctic Animal Ethics Committee
  • Antarctic Ethics Committee (Human Experimentation)
  • Antarctic Research Assessment Committees (ARACs)
  • Antarctic Science Advisory Committee
  • Australia-Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks
  • Australian Antarctic Names and Medals Committee
  • Australian Heritage Council
  • Bureau of Meteorology
  • 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
  • Stockholm Intergovernmental Forum
  • Sydney Harbour Federation Trust
  • Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area Ministerial Council
  • Threatened Species Scientific Committee
  • Wet Tropics Ministerial Council

    • List of Environment Ministers

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

    Notes

    1 Whitlam was one of a two-man ministry consisting of himself and Lance Barnard for two weeks until the full ministry was announced.

    List of Ministers for Climate Change

    The Minister for Climate Change was responsible for developing climate change (global warming) solutions, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and promoting energy efficiency. The following individuals have been appointed to the post, or any of its precursor titles:

    Minister 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, 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.

    References

    Minister for the Environment and Energy Wikipedia
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