Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Australia)
- Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts (Australia)
The current Australian Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts is Peter Garrett, who took over from Malcolm Turnbull (who was titled Minister for the Environment and Water Resources ) once the Rudd Labor Government is sworn in on 3 December2007. Water Resources and responsibility for addressing Climate Change were assigned to a new Ministry.
Portfolio responsibilities
The minister administers their portfolio through the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 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
* National Cultural Heritage Committee
* 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
Australian environment ministers
External links
[http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/index.html Ministers' website]
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