Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (Australia)

Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (Australia)
Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Incumbent
Tony Burke

since 14 September 2010
Style The Honourable
Appointer Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Australia
Inaugural holder Peter Howson
Formation 1971

The current Australian Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities is Tony Burke, who took over from Peter Garrett (whose portfolio was titled Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts). The Minister and department change took effect in the Second Gillard Ministry on 14 September 2010.[1][2] When the Rudd Labor Government came to power in December 2007, Water Resources and the responsibility for addressing Climate Change were assigned to a new Ministry.

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Portfolio responsibilities

The minister administers their portfolio through the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities and its component bodies:

  • 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

Minister Party affiliation Period Ministerial Title
Peter Howson Liberal Party 19711972 Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts
Gough Whitlam Australian Labor Party 1972
Moss Cass 19721975 Minister for the Environment and Conservation
1975 Minister for the Environment
Jim Cairns 1975
Gough Whitlam 1975
Joe Berinson 1975
Andrew Peacock Liberal Party 1975
Ivor Greenwood 19751976 Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development
Kevin Newman 19761977
Ray Groom 19771978
James Webster 19781979 Minister for Science and the Environment
David Thomson 19791980
Robert Ellicott 19801981 Minister for Home Affairs and the Environment
Michael MacKellar 1981
Ian Wilson 19811982
Tom McVeigh 19821983
Barry Cohen Australian Labor Party 19831984
19841987 Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Environment
John Brown 19871988 Minister for Arts, Sport, the Environment, Tourism and Territories
Graham Richardson 19881990
Ros Kelly 19901991
19911993 Minister for Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories
19931994 Minister for the Environment, Sport and Territories
John Faulkner 19941996
Robert Hill Liberal Party 19961998 Minister for the Environment
19982001 Minister for the Environment and Heritage
David Kemp 20012004
Ian Campbell 20042007
Malcolm Turnbull 2007 Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
Peter Garrett Australian Labor Party 20072010 Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts
Peter Garrett 2010 Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts
Tony Burke 2010present Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities

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.[3] 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.[4] After the 2010 Federal Election the portfolio was subsumed by the Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities portfolio.[5]

Minister Party affiliation Period Ministerial Title
Tony Burke Australian Labor Party 3 April – 28 June 2010 Minister for Population
28 June – 14 September 2010 Minister for Sustainable Population

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